Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)
Headquarters: DC, District of Columbia, United States
Status: Full-time
Location: Remote
Who We Are
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. We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service.
What We Build
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: The most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., 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: A hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.
Where We’re Headed
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.
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 is 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.
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 CTO, 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 facilitate product direction for the CMS, including content models, workflows, permissions, versioning, and publishing.
- Ensure the CMS supports multiple products, grade levels, subjects, delivery contexts, and modalities.
- Partner with Engineering on long-term platform scalability and maintainability.
General Product Leadership
- 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.
- 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.
Job 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).
- 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 a strategic perspective.
Preferred Qualifications
- Direct experience with K–12 curriculum and assessment products.
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree.
Compensation
The expected base salary range for this position is $151,000–$170,000. The offered salary may be higher or lower dependent on factors including location, work experience, skills, and internal equity. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.
Application Process
- A cover letter and resume are required to be considered.
- New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.
- Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer.
- Apply here