Principal Product Manager

Role Description

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.

Benefits

• The expected base salary range for this position is $151,000-$170,000, however the offered salary may 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.