Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization focused on providing meaningful educational content and tools for teachers. The Principal Product Manager will lead the development of content authoring tools and delivery experiences, ensuring they are effective and user-friendly for various stakeholders in the education sector.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Bachelor's degree
- Direct experience with K–12 curriculum and assessment products
Company Overview
A group of education leaders founded the non-profit Great Minds in 2007 to define and encourage content-rich comprehensive education. It was founded in 2007, and is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://greatminds.org.Company H1B Sponsorship
Great Minds has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.