Lead product strategy and execution for digital curriculum and planning tools, including a CMS and The Creative Curriculum Cloud. Manage and develop product managers, define roadmap and priorities, partner with engineering, design, QA, marketing, and sales, integrate educator feedback and data, leverage AI, and ensure intuitive, instructionally meaningful teacher workflows and strong go-to-market outcomes.
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Teaching Strategies is an innovative EdTech organization focused on connecting teachers, children, and families. As front runners in the early childhood education market, we build dynamic, top-quality digital products that integrate all the essential elements of a high-quality solution: curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family engagement. We are building a team of results-oriented individuals who will thrive in a collaborative, work-hard/play-hard culture. We pride ourselves on the impact we have on the early childhood field through supporting teachers who are doing the most important work there is,
teaching children to become creative, confident thinkers.
Position Overview
Teaching Strategies is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead the strategy, evolution, and execution of our curriculum products, including The Creative Curriculum Cloud, planning tools, and content management solution. The Creative Curriculum Cloud is the award-winning digital subscription curriculum and planning tool named the 2025 “Cool Tool Award” from EdTech Weekly.
This role leads a team of product managers to drive the digital curriculum planning and teaching experience—ensuring that teachers can seamlessly plan, instruct, document, and adapt learning experiences using The Creative Curriculum or their own content.
This leader is responsible for ensuring that the experience is intuitive, efficient, instructionally meaningful, and deeply embedded in teacher workflows. You will define and drive a cohesive product vision that connects curriculum content, planning workflows, and classroom execution into a unified, high-quality experience. This role operates at both strategic and executional levels.
Specific Roles & Responsibilities:
Product Strategy – Digital Curriculum & Teaching Experience
- Define and evolve the product vision and strategy for the Teach planning and teaching tool and our digital curriculum solutions, including The Creative Curriculum Cloud.
- Build a product vision and strategy for our content management system.
- Ensure alignment between curriculum, digital experience, and classroom realities.
- Drive clarity on how digital curriculum enhances teacher workflows and strategy for driving digital curriculum usage.
- Translate company goals into clear product direction and priorities.
Product Execution & Delivery
- Lead Product Managers across Teach, the CMS and curriculum capabilities.
- Drive roadmap clarity, prioritization, and tradeoff decisions.
- Partner with Engineering, Design, and QA for high-quality delivery.
- Work closely with Marketing to ensure strong Go-to-Market plans and execution that drive revenue.
- Make data-informed decisions with a bias for action.
Customer & Educator Insight Integration
- Stay connected to educator workflows and needs.
- Incorporate customer feedback, usage data, and research into decisions.
- Leverage Voice of Customer systems and insights.
- Validate concepts with teachers and stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Alignment & Influence
- Align Product, Curriculum, Engineering, Design, CX, Sales, and Marketing.
- Ensure shared understanding of product direction and experience.
- Communicate clear executive-level narratives.
Product Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop Product Managers.
- Elevate product thinking and instructional empathy.
- Foster customer-focused, high-quality product culture.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years in Product Management, including leadership of complex product areas
- Experience owning SaaS products with high-frequency workflows
- Strong track record delivering intuitive user experiences
- Experience with content systems or instructional tools
- Strong product discovery and prioritization skills
- Experience with using AI to drive requirements, development and QA
- Ability to connect user experience, business model, and strategy
- Strong track record of working collaboratively with engineering and tech leaders
- Excellent communication skills
Why Teaching Strategies
At Teaching Strategies, our solutions and services are only as strong as the teams that create them. By bringing passion, dedication, and creativity to your job every day, there's no telling what you can do and where you can go! We provide a competitive compensation and benefits package, flexible work schedules, opportunities to engage with co-workers, access to career advancement and professional development opportunities, and the chance to make a difference in the communities we serve.
Let's open the door to your career at Teaching Strategies!
Some additional benefits & perks while working with Teaching Strategies
Teaching Strategies offers our employees a robust suite of benefits and other perks which include:
- Competitive compensation package
- Employee Equity Appreciation Program
- Health and wellness insurance benefits
- 401k with employer match
- Flexible work environment
- Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
- Paid parental leave
- Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
- Best in class technology equipment for every employee
- Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field
Teaching Strategies is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to fostering a workplace where everyone can thrive.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA)
About
Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of curriculum, assessment, professional development, and family connection resources in the early childhood field. Offering ground-breaking solutions, including The Creative Curriculum®, GOLD®, tadpoles®, ReadyRosie™, ParentPal™, Al's Pals™, and professional development, Teaching Strategies believes that a child’s first 8 years form a critical foundation for school success. Teaching Strategies has been an advocate for the early childhood education community for more than 40 years.
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