Associate Product Manager (FT, Temporary)
US Remote
Full time
At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to diversity in thinking, making our products better for teachers and students. If you read this job description, feel energized by what you see here, and believe you could bring passion and commitment to the role, but you aren’t sure you meet every qualification, please apply! Above all, we are looking for the right person!
Curriculum Associates is a rapidly growing educational technology and publishing company committed to making classrooms better places for teachers and students. Headquartered outside Boston, we are an innovative, collaborative, and mission-driven company that has been consistently recognized as a Boston Globe Top Workplace and a Boston Business Journal Best Place to Work. Come influence the creation of educational resources used by over 10 million students around the country!
We are seeking an enthusiastic Associate Product Manager, Spanish to join the Access & Equity team. The Associate Product Manager is the conduit between the customer and the product development team. The team member serves this function in a few different ways: they gather data and feedback from customers and customer-facing teammates and synthesize it into requirements; they maintain the product roadmap and backlog by aligning ideas to business objectives, and they help other teams in the Go to Market phase by being an expert on the product. This role will work cross-functionally with the Bids & Proposals, Sales, and i-Ready Product Marketing teams, serving as product expert and voice of the customer, combining a deep understanding of our products with insights about priorities/important trends in teaching and learning to help drive the growth of our business.
*This is a full-time, temporary position, expected to end early 2026.
The impact you’ll have:
- Serving as the voice of the customer and connecting development teams to market-facing teams
- Developing expertise and product knowledge, to support the Spanish/Bilingual content-development teams in building products that meet the needs of customers, and that align with the demands of statewide adoptions
- Developing and refining accurate documentation and strategic product messaging for CA’s Spanish language products and programs
- Being a contributor to writing proposals to state/school district solicitations
- Engaging in strong working partnerships across internal groups including Bids & Proposals, Content Marketing, Professional Development, and Assessment teams
- Communicating new product features and helping to organize training for account management, field trainers, tech support, and customer service professionals
- Maintaining competitive information and market research and sharing it with teams to inform content development
- Supporting product marketing by conceptualizing and helping to create customer-facing materials that will support “stickiness”
- Occasionally creating and/or editing content, with supervision
What we’re looking for:
- You have 1–3 years of experience in educational publishing, instructional design, standards alignment, literacy development, curriculum mapping, or another relevant field
- You have deep knowledge of Spanish Language Arts and literacy instruction
- You have deep knowledge of Bilingual education markets
- You are biliterate (Spanish/English)
- You are an effective, active listener with strong communication skills, both verbally and written
- You are a self-starter, capable of excellent organization/prioritization, delivering quality work under deadlines
- You have exceptional writing skills
- Experience working on an editorial and/or marketing team a plus
- Classroom experience a plus
Benefits and Pay Range:
Pay Range – This role’s range is $40. - $50/hour. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that Curriculum Associates considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual base pay within that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant skill sets. At Curriculum Associates, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws.
Benefits – Temporary and per-diem employees who average at least 30 hours of work per week within the Company’s look-back period are eligible to enroll in medical coverage after 90 days of employment. Temporary and per-diem employees working more than 20 hours per week are eligible for twelve paid holidays. All temporary and per-diem employees are eligible for accrued sick time.
Application deadline: April 17, 2025. This is subject to close earlier if there is a high volume of applicants or a qualified hire is made.