Senior Project Manager

About this role

### Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager (PM) with deep K–12 education domain expertise to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives involving curriculum platforms, content, assessments, data integrations, and analytics.

This role requires a hands-on delivery leader who is fluent in Agile methodologies, highly proficient in Jira, and capable of coordinating work across product, engineering, data, QA, platform, and customer success teams. The ideal candidate brings 8+ years of experience with additional experience in K–12 education projects, understands K–12 data structures and personas, and can drive predictable delivery in a SaaS environment.

### Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of K–12 EdTech projects, from initiation through release and post-launch validation
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, and release schedules
• Manage scope, risks, issues, and dependencies across multiple teams and vendors
• Drive predictable execution and on-time delivery for complex, multi-stream initiatives

• Apply Agile principles to support iterative delivery while maintaining delivery discipline
• Facilitate and support Agile ceremonies (planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives)
• Own Jira project configuration, workflows, boards, and dashboards
• Ensure Epics, Stories, and Tasks are well-structured, prioritized, and execution-ready
• Track and report on delivery metrics (velocity, burndown, cycle time, blockers)

- Manage projects involving:
- Curriculum platforms and instructional content
- Assessments (standards-based)
- Standards alignment and curriculum mapping (state, district, national standards)
- K–12 personas (students, teachers, administrators, curriculum leaders)
- Third-party data integrations
- K–12 data structures (enrollments, rosters, grades, assessments, standards)
- Analytics and reporting initiatives (usage, outcomes, compliance, adoption)
- Ensure soluti...