Teaching Strategies

Senior Director, Product Management (Remote)

Teaching Strategies$130K — $180K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in Product Management, leading complex product areas
  • Experience owning SaaS products with high-frequency workflows
  • Proven success in delivering intuitive user experiences
  • Familiarity with content systems or instructional tools
  • Expertise in product discovery and prioritization
  • Experience utilizing AI in product development and QA
  • Ability to align user experience with business strategy
  • Strong collaboration experience with engineering and tech teams
  • Excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Define and evolve product vision and strategy for digital curriculum solutions
  • Build product strategy for content management systems
  • Ensure alignment of curriculum and digital experience with classroom needs
  • Clarify how digital curriculum enhances teacher workflows
  • Translate company goals into actionable product direction
  • Lead Product Managers across various products and capabilities
  • Drive clarity and prioritization for product roadmaps
  • Partner with cross-functional teams for quality delivery
  • Incorporate customer feedback and research into product decisions
  • Align product direction across multiple business functions
  • Develop and mentor Product Managers to foster product culture

Benefits

  • Employee Equity Appreciation Program
  • Health and wellness insurance benefits
  • 401k with employer match
  • Unlimited paid time off, including paid holidays and Winter Break
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance and opportunities for career growth
  • Access to best in class technology equipment
  • Flexible work environment
  • Location in a penthouse suite in downtown DC, near major sports venues
Full Job Description
Senior Director, Product Management (Remote)

Department: Product Management

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Denton, Texas

Description

Position Overview

Teaching Strategies is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of our curriculum products, including The Creative Curriculum Cloud, planning tools, and content management solution. The Creative Curriculum Cloud is the award-winning digital subscription

curriculum and planning tool named the 2025 "Cool Tool Award" from EdTech Weekly.

This role leads a team of product managers to drive the digital curriculum planning and teaching experience-ensuring that teachers can seamlessly plan, instruct, document, and adapt learning experiences using The Creative Curriculum or their own content.

This leader is responsible for ensuring that the experience is intuitive, efficient, instructionally meaningful, and deeply embedded in teacher workflows. You will define and drive a cohesive product vision that connects curriculum content, planning workflows, and classroom execution into a unified, high-quality experience. This role operates at both strategic and executional levels.

Specific Roles & Responsibilities:

Product Strategy - Digital Curriculum & Teaching Experience
  • Define and evolve the product vision and strategy for the Teach planning and teaching tool and our digital curriculum solutions, including The Creative Curriculum Cloud.
  • Build a product vision and strategy for our content management system.
  • Ensure alignment between curriculum, digital experience, and classroom realities.
  • Drive clarity on how digital curriculum enhances teacher workflows and strategy for driving digital curriculum usage.
  • Translate company goals into clear product direction and priorities.

Product Execution & Delivery
  • Lead Product Managers across Teach, the CMS and curriculum capabilities.
  • Drive roadmap clarity, prioritization, and tradeoff decisions.
  • Partner with Engineering, Design, and QA for high-quality delivery.
  • Work closely with Marketing to ensure strong Go-to-Market plans and execution that drive revenue.
  • Make data-informed decisions with a bias for action.

Customer & Educator Insight Integration
  • Stay connected to educator workflows and needs.
  • Incorporate customer feedback, usage data, and research into decisions.
  • Leverage Voice of Customer systems and insights.
  • Validate concepts with teachers and stakeholders.

Cross-Functional Alignment & Influence
  • Align Product, Curriculum, Engineering, Design, CX, Sales, and Marketing.
  • Ensure shared understanding of product direction and experience.
  • Communicate clear executive-level narratives.

Product Leadership & Team Development
  • Lead and develop Product Managers.
  • Elevate product thinking and instructional empathy.
  • Foster customer-focused, high-quality product culture.

Qualifications:
  • 6+ years in Product Management, including leadership of complex product areas
  • Experience owning SaaS products with high-frequency workflows
  • Strong track record delivering intuitive user experiences
  • Experience with content systems or instructional tools
  • Strong product discovery and prioritization skills
  • Experience with using AI to drive requirements, development and QA
  • Ability to connect user experience, business model, and strategy
  • Strong track record of working collaboratively with engineering and tech leaders
  • Excellent communication skills

Why Teaching Strategies

At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.

Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!

Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
  • Competitive compensation package
  • Employee Equity Appreciation Program
  • Health and wellness insurance benefits
  • 401k with employer match
  • Flexible work environment
  • Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
  • Paid parental leave
  • Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
  • Best in class technology equipment for every employee
  • Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field

About Teaching Strategies

Teaching Strategies is a leading provider of early childhood education resources, including curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement tools. The company's flagship product, The Creative Curriculum, is widely used in preschools and other early childhood education settings across the United States. Teaching Strategies was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland.
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500 employees
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1988

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