Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)

Great Minds•Dc, DC

8d•$151,000 - $170,000•Remote

About The Position

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms. We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes. We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact. Our products— Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom , PhD Science, Geodes , and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA —are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide. Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application. Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy. PhD Science is a hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works. These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students. Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support. Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale. 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.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Direct experience with K–12 curriculum and assessment products

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.
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.