Curriculum Associates: Product Director, Spanish Reading

We are seeking an enthusiastic Product Director, Spanish Reading to join the Access & Equity team. The Product Director 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:

• Serving as the voice of the customer and connecting development teams to marketfacing teams

• 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

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

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

• Establishing 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

• 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)

• 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

Who we’re looking for:

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

• You have deep knowledge of Reading/Language Arts, especially Foundational Reading skills

• You have deep knowledge of Dual Language Immersion and Bilingual 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