Senior Technical Product Manager I

At Curriculum Associates, we believe in the potential of every child and are changing the face of education technology with award-winning learning programs like i-Ready that serve a third of the nation s K 8 students. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms better places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for all students has driven the continuous improvement of our innovative programs. Our team of more than 2,500 employees is composed of lifelong learners who stand behind this mission, working tirelessly to serve the educational community with world-class programs and support every day.

Your Role: Senior Technical Product Manager - Data

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you ll be the anchor in our product development engine ensuring clarity, momentum, and accountability across teams.

Your mission: To drive delivery excellence while contributing to product direction and connecting execution to business impact.

This is not a strategy-only role. You ll stay close to the details refining the backlog, unblocking teams, and ensuring features are built right while also stepping up to guide discovery, influence roadmaps, and enable go-to-market success. If you thrive on execution but want to scale your impact, this role is for you.

What You ll Do

• Own the backlog: Prioritize and refine across multiple workstreams; ensure clarity and alignment with sprint goals.
• Write detailed stories & acceptance criteria: Define testable, high-quality stories that engineers and QA can confidently deliver.
• Lead execution: Drive agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retros), unblock teams, and keep delivery on track.
• Align cross-functional teams: Partner with engineering, QA, UX, research, and stakeholders to ensure clarity on goals and trade-offs.
• Connect execution to outcomes: Tie daily delivery to broader business, customer, and educational impact.
• Support product discovery: Participate in roadmap discussions, user research, interviews, and impact analysis.
• Champion iterative delivery: Release early, validate with users, and adapt based on feedback.
• Enable launches: Support go-to-market, internal enablement, and release documentation.
• Escalate and triage: Identify misalignments, tech blockers, or risks early and drive resolution.

What You ll Bring

• Strong execution leadership: Proven ability to align teams, drive sprint success, and deliver under deadlines.
• Backlog ownership at scale: Experience managing complex backlogs across multiple teams or features.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Skilled at working with engineers, QA, UX, analytics, and business stakeholders.
• Hands-on with product tools: Jira, Confluence, Miro/Mural, Smartsheet; analytics tools (Pendo, Mixpanel, GA); design collaboration (Figma).
• Clear communicator: Strong written and verbal skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adaptable: Comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and fast-moving environments.
• EdTech familiarity (preferred): Understanding of curriculum, assessments, student/teacher platforms, or learning tools.

Experience & Education

• Bachelor s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Education, or related field (MBA preferred).
• 10+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Product Owner, or Business Analyst.
• Experience leading agile product teams with backlog hygiene and iterative delivery best practices.
• Exposure to SaaS or EdTech platforms (strong advantage).
• Exposure to Data Governance, Data Integration and Data engineering would be great plus
• Certifications like CSPO, PSPO, PMI-ACP, or CPM are a plus.