Principal Product Manager (Content Authoring, Delivery & CMS)

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. The Principal Product Manager will lead the discovery and execution for content authoring tools, user delivery experiences, and content management systems, ensuring high-quality K–12 instructional and assessment experiences.

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

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
• Bachelor's degree
• Direct experience with K–12 curriculum and assessment products