Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)

Great Minds

$151K — $170K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Washington DC, US
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience leading complex platforms or systems
  • Experience building products for various user types, not just authors
  • In-depth knowledge of content authoring tools and CMS platforms
  • Strong systems thinking with a focus on data models and workflows
  • Proven collaborative influence with ability to lead without authority
  • Detail-oriented but able to maintain a strategic perspective

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve product vision for content authoring tools
  • Balance usability and structural rigor for content delivery
  • Translate instructional needs into scalable software capabilities
  • Form product strategy for content delivery to K-12 stakeholders
  • Ensure user experiences are accessible and instructionally sound
  • Drive conversations on CMS product direction, including content workflows and permissions
  • Establish product strategy and success metrics for authoring and delivery capabilities

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility
  • Opportunity to influence K-12 instructional and assessment experiences
  • Cross-functional collaboration with design, engineering, and curriculum teams
  • Possibility of growth into leadership within product management
  • Focus on user-centered design and real classroom workflows
Full Job Description
Job Purpose

Reporting to the Director, Digital Product Management, the Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)will lead discovery and execution for our content authoring tools, end user delivery experiences, and content management system (CMS). This role will be critical to how curriculum and assessment content is created, managed, and experienced by teachers, students, administrators, and internal teams. This is a top-level individual contributor role with broad ownership and influence. The position will work with product design, engineering, curriculum, and assessment teams to ensure Great Minds' authoring and delivery platforms are coherent, scalable, and deeply supportive of high-quality K-12 instructional and assessment experiences. The role will partner closely with Product Design, Engineering, and other teams in and outside the Digital department.

Responsibilities
  • Content Authoring Platforms:
    • Define and evolve the product vision for tools used to author curriculum and assessment content.
    • Balance usability for authors with structural rigor required for downstream delivery, analytics, and interoperability.
    • Partner with curriculum and assessment teams to translate instructional intent into scalable software capabilities.
  • End User Content Delivery:
    • In partnership with the Chief Technology Officer, directors, and other leaders, form product strategy for how authored content is delivered to teachers, students, and administrators.
    • Ensure delivery experiences are performant, accessible, intuitive, and instructionally sound.
    • Work closely with Digital Product Design to validate real classroom and instructional workflows.
  • CMS and Content Architecture:
    • Initiate and sometimes facilitate product direction conversations for the CMS, including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing-working with but deferring to expert partners in Product Design and Engineering.
    • Ensure the CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.
    • Partner with Engineering on long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
  • Responsibilities:
    • Set clear product strategy and success metrics for authoring, delivery, and CMS capabilities.
    • Translate complex instructional and operational needs into well-scoped product initiatives.
    • Write clear roadmap proposals and product requirements when they are defined.
    • Collaborate deeply with Product Design to ground decisions in user needs and evidence.
    • Partner with Engineering to make sound trade-offs across speed, quality, and technical health.
    • Influence roadmap priorities in partnership with Product Management and leadership.
    • Act as a subject matter expert on content platforms for Great Minds commercial products.
    • Identify and reduce friction across the content lifecycle-from creation to classroom use.


  • 7+ years of product management experience, with senior level ownership of complex platforms or systems
  • Experience building products that serve multiple user types (authors, teachers, students, admins, internal teams) and not exclusively authors
  • Deep understanding of content authoring tools, CMS platforms, and structured content systems
  • Strong systems thinking-able to reason about data models, workflows, and downstream impacts
  • Proven ability to influence without authority and lead through collaboration
  • Comfort working hands on with detailed requirements while maintaining strategic perspective


Preferred Qualifications
  • Direct experience with K-12 curriculum and assessment products

Required Education
  • Bachelor's degree

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The expected base salary range for this position is $151,000-$170,000, however the offered salarymay be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.

Any communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact [redacted]

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