*This position is hybrid at our New Rochelle office.
Position Purpose:
As the Director of Curriculum Product Management, you will help oversee the strategic development of innovative instructional core programs and supplemental products for K-12 market, from inception to launch. You will collaborate cross functionally with editorial leadership, instructional designers, visual designers, producers, print and digital production team members to create innovative, customer-focused core programs and supplemental products meant to enhance teaching effectiveness and enrich the student learning experience.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Oversee the ideation and planning for new core and supplemental curriculum products focusing print, digital and hybrid modalities
- Develop and test prototypes with target users to validate product concepts
- Translate user research, market analysis, and stakeholder feedback into compelling product visions
- Serve as the voice of the customer, ensuring user needs are reflected in product design and development
- Collaborate with digital production and technology team to enhance digital features of the platform on which digital products are deployed
- Work with sales and marketing, professional development teams to to articulate product value and drive adoption
- Identify problems, suggest solutions, and clearly communicate the details required to build the product as conceptualized, including writing high-level concepts and content architecture
- Work with a team of editorial, instructional designers, visual designers, print and digital production team members to define outline of the product and granular content structure
- Work on ideation of multiple products at the same time
- Track and document product ideation through all phases of product ideation working with a project manager
- Present product concepts and progress to senior leadership and key stakeholders for feedback and alignment
Job Requirements/Skills and Experience:
- A minimum of 2-5 years of experience in curriculum product management in K-12 education industry
- Deep understanding of educator and student needs across PreK–8
- Proven experience developing K-12 print and digital curriculum products
- Knowledge of current trends and capabilities in K-12 ELA market
- Ability to successfully manage multiple product ideations simultaneously
- Ability to independently drive projects/products to completion
- Working knowledge of print and digital product development
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office and product management tools
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to develop concepts into elegant, customer-centric solutions for Print and digital delivery in PreK-12 market
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to collaborate with editors, authors, instructional designers, visual designers, production team members and stakeholders from school districts
Salary Range: $130,000 – $150,000
*The base salary range represents the low and high end of the expected salary range for the position. The base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors such as geographic location, experience, education, and skill level.
About Benchmark Education Company
Benchmark Education Company (BEC) is a leading publisher of core, supplemental, and intervention literacy and language resources in English and Spanish, with valid and reliable digital assessments that inform instruction. BEC is also a provider of exceptional professional development to educators.
BEC is recognized as a responsive publisher that offers equally rigorous and engaging digital, print, and hybrid learning materials grounded in the Science of Reading research. BEC monitors research outcomes carefully to create effective foundational resources that include strong decoding materials with systematic and explicit instruction and high-quality resources focused on language development and comprehension. BEC’s content-rich and authentic texts offer instruction in close reading and analysis, multiple perspectives, and authentic literature while building world knowledge and reflecting the individuality of every student in each diverse classroom.
Family owned and operated for more than 25 years, BEC is committed to partnering with educators to provide the best for all students through resources of exceptional quality, world-class professional learning, and effective and dedicated customer support.
Benchmark Education Publishing (BEC) and its affiliates are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
For further information, visit us at: https://www.benchmarkeducation.com
