Job Title: Content Program Manager / Content Project Manager (Education Publication )

Location: New York (Onsite)
Employment Type: Full-Time

Mandatory Skill –

Education Publication, Content publication, Project management tools (Agile, scrum etc), LMS tools (SuccessFactors, SumTotal, and Moodle etc), project timelines, budgets, and deliverables

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Content Program Manager to lead the planning, development, and delivery of educational content products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in education publishing, curriculum development, instructional design, or EdTech content operations. This role requires managing cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality content is delivered on schedule and within budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end technical content development projects, from planning through publication and release.
• Collaborate with editors, curriculum specialists, instructional designers, subject matter experts, and production teams.
• Develop project plans, schedules, resource allocations, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Monitor project timelines, budgets, and deliverables to ensure successful execution.
• Coordinate content review, editing, quality assurance, and publishing workflows.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies, Program Increment (PI) planning sessions, stakeholder reviews, and status meetings.
• Ensure content aligns with educational standards, curriculum frameworks, and learning objectives.
• Facilitate communication among internal stakeholders and external vendors.
• Track project progress and provide regular status updates to leadership.
• Drive process improvements to enhance content production efficiency and quality.
• Manage multiple content programs simultaneously while maintaining attention to detail.

Course Development & Content Production:

· End-to-end course development lifecycle; manuscript/content build

· Oversight through production; instructional design & SME partnership; content workflows, standards, QA, creating enterprise development standards

· Checkpoints; digital asset integration; content refresh cycles and scalable development processes

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education, Publishing, Communications, English, Instructional Design, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in educational publishing, curriculum development, EdTech, or content program management, digital learning environments.
• Proven experience managing complex content development projects.
• Strong understanding of content lifecycle management and publishing workflows.
• Experience working with editorial teams, curriculum developers, and content creators.
• Excellent project planning, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
• Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Smartsheet.
• Experience working within publishing, digital publishing, eLearning, EdTech, or content technology environments.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and frameworks, including SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework).
• Experience supporting Program Increment (PI) Planning and execution.
• Custom CMS builds and deployments with consistent feature development and release cycles
• Experience with Enterprise LMS platforms such as SuccessFactors, SumTotal, and Moodle, LMS, CMS, Articulate, SharePoint, InDesign
• Experience with print and digital publishing environments. Agile/Waterfall for content production and publishing, Content quality, curriculum alignment, on-time publication
• Experience using project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Asana, or similar platforms.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in K-12, Higher Education, Assessment, or Learning Products.
• PMP, CAPM, Agile, or related project management certifications.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $80,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Flexible schedule
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Work Location: Remote