ELA Content Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the quality assurance for Kiddom's ELA programs across digital platforms, lesson presentations, and printed materials.

• Modify and enhance curriculum for state editions and adoptions, which includes standards extraction, creating crosswalks, alignment guides, content adjustments, and necessary evidence.

• Ensure instructional integrity in book maps, tables of contents, teacher and student book structures, as well as vendor proof reviews.

• Develop integrated and designated ELD supports at Emerging, Expanding, and Bridging proficiency levels, aligning them with California ELD Standards and other state frameworks.

• Maintain the accuracy of live courses by managing customer support tickets, rectifying broken links and media, conducting course QA, and requesting republishes.

• Act as the primary content liaison with the curriculum partner; document errata and adoption inquiries, track file deliveries, and coordinate changes approved by the partner.

• Scope, brief, assign, and review contractor and vendor tasks; estimate hours and monitor progress against the budget.

• Define, prototype, and implement AI-assisted workflows utilizing Claude skills, scripts, and multi-step pipelines for standards extraction, ELD support creation, slide production, content extraction, and QA triage.

• Write and edit ELA lessons, interactive question types, lesson presentations, and supplementary materials within the Kiddom platform.

• Establish protocols for instructional and visual design of lesson presentations.

• Identify teacher and student challenges, formulate goals for new content features, prototype solutions, and leverage usage data and educator feedback to prioritize tasks.

• Participate in customer calls with Product Managers, providing classroom insights to inform product decisions.

• Manage projects in Jira, keeping briefs and timelines updated, while reporting on progress, risks, and changes.

• Resolve issues outside standard processes and take on necessary tasks to meet project deadlines.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of K–12 ELA classroom teaching experience.

• At least 3 years of experience in instructional design or curriculum development for ELA, preferably with a background in digital products or technology integration.

• Proven experience in writing K–8 ELA lessons, tasks, teacher notes, and supplemental resources, including foundational skills and the science of reading.

• Familiarity with EL Education or another core ELA curriculum, such as Amplify ELA or Into Reading.

• Understanding of student-centered, text-based, knowledge-building ELA instruction, along with explicit, systematic instruction methodologies.

• A product-oriented mindset: comfort with ambiguity, a focus on delivering and iterating, and the ability to link content decisions to user outcomes.

• Proficient in utilizing AI tools in daily content work; capable of establishing repeatable workflows beyond just written prompts.

• Comfortable working directly within content systems: performing bulk edits, managing files and links, handling spreadsheets, and using simple scripts.

• Strong project management skills: capable of overseeing multiple state editions simultaneously, scoping work for contractors, and maintaining current documentation.

• Deep empathy for educators and a commitment to enhancing equitable education.

• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage various projects concurrently.

• Strong creative problem-solving skills and excellent written communication capabilities.

• Preferred: experience in developing advanced, agentic AI workflows for content creation.

• Preferred: familiarity with curriculum development for California, including knowledge of California ELA/ELD standards, framework, and instructional materials adoption processes.

• Preferred: experience in creating integrated and designated ELD supports.

• Preferred: background in preparing materials for state adoption reviews, EdReports, or RFPs.

• Preferred: experience in print production for instructional materials.

• Preferred: experience with scripting, such as Google Apps Script or Python, for content operations.

• Preferred: experience in managing contractors or leading projects at a professional scale.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary.

• Meaningful equity.

• Health insurance benefits including medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability, and life insurance.

• 401k plan.

• One Medical membership (available in participating locations).

• Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval), with an average of 4 weeks off per year.

• 10 paid sick days annually (pro-rated based on start date).

• Paid holidays.

• Paid bereavement leave.

• Paid family leave following birth/adoption, offering a minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents and 10 weeks for caretaker parents, intended to supplement state-offered benefits.

• Commuter and FSA plans.