Product Manager, Spanish

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!





Why join this team:




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 Product Manager, Spanish to join the Access & Equity team. The 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







The impact you’ll have:

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  Serving as the voice of the customer and connecting development teams to market-facing teams
  


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  Developing expertise and product knowledge, and serving as an expert in the market landscape, in order 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
  


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  Developing and refining accurate documentation and strategic product messaging for CA’s Spanish language products and programs
  


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  Being the lead contributor to writing proposals to state/school district solicitations
  


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  Establishing strong working partnerships across internal groups including Bids & Proposals, Content Marketing, Professional Development, and Assessment teams
  


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  Communicating new product features and helping to organize training for account management, field trainers, tech support, and customer service professionals
  


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  Acting as the point of first reference for all product development inquiries from customers and our colleagues in the field (professional development, account management, sales)
  


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  Maintaining competitive information and market research and sharing it with teams to inform content development
  


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  Supporting product marketing by conceptualizing and helping to create customer-facing materials that will support “stickiness”
  


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  Occasionally creating and/or editing content, with supervision
  

What we’re looking for:

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  You have 5+ years of experience in educational publishing, instructional design, standards alignment, literacy development, curriculum mapping, or another relevant field
  


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  You have deep knowledge of literacy instruction
  


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  You have deep knowledge of Bilingual education markets
  


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  You are biliterate (Spanish/English)
  

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  You are an effective, active listener with strong communication skills, both verbally and written
  


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  You are a self-starter, capable of excellent organization/prioritization, delivering quality work under deadlines
  


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  You have exceptional writing skills
  


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  Experience working on an editorial and/or marketing team a plus
  


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  Classroom experience a plus
  

Application deadline: May 6, 2024. This is subject to close earlier if there is a high volume of applicants or a qualified hire is made



Benefits and Pay Range:


Pay Range – This role’s range is $60,750. - $99,750. 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. This role is also eligible to participate in the company bonus plan. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure all compensation decisions comply with applicable state and local laws



Benefits – Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match. Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits



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Curriculum Associates, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Curriculum Associates will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race (including ancestry, national origin, ethnic characteristics, interracial marriage or association, and traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion and creed (including all aspects of religious observance, practice and belief), sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, difference of sex development and variations of sex characteristics), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran or uniformed servicemember status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.



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