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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.
Associate Director, Program Management
Remote, United States
At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to innovations that help educators and students succeed. We are seeking an experienced Associate Director, Program Management to lead large, cross-functional programs that bring high-quality instructional products and services to market. In this role, you will drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Content, Design, Marketing, Customer Success, and other Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to ensure programs deliver on our strategic objectives and meet the needs of the educators and students we serve.
The impact you’ll have:
- Lead the successful delivery of complex, multi-year programs that advance CA’s product strategy and organizational goals
- Translate vision into clear program outcomes, milestones, timelines, and success measures
- Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations, helping teams align on priorities and decisions
- Strengthen the connection between Product and GTM teams to ensure clear communication, organizational readiness, and cohesive deliverables throughout the product lifecycle
- Drive continuous improvement in program management methodologies, tools, and standards across the company
What you’ll do:
Program Leadership
- Initiate, define, and socialize program goals in alignment with organizational strategy
- Build and manage the integrated program plan, ensuring coordination, transparency, and accountability across teams
- Lead programs through the full product development lifecycle—including Discovery, Definition, Development, and Launch—ensuring clarity of scope, timelines, and deliverables at each stage.
- Facilitate phase transitions and checkpoints; ensure teams are aligned with requirements, acceptance criteria, and readiness expectations.
- Oversee multiple workstreams and ensure balance of scope, time, cost, and quality
- Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and interdependencies
- Ensure accurate and timely documentation and reporting—including timelines, decision logs, risk registers, and program updates
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Maintain open, collaborative, and solution-oriented communication with stakeholders at all levels
- Drive alignment between Product, Engineering, Content, Design, and GTM teams; proactively synthesize complex information and ensure clarity across groups
- Facilitate decision-making processes and ensure shared understanding of tradeoffs and priorities
- Build trusted relationships that foster cross-team collaboration and accountability
Go-to-Market (GTM) Partnership
- Partner closely with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Professional Learning, and Operations teams to ensure organizational readiness for product launches and major milestones
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure downstream teams understand feature intent, customer value, and milestone timing throughout the development cycle
- Ensure GTM partners are engaged early in the product development process and prepared for launch through clear timelines, messaging, and resource planning
- Provide downstream teams with clear visibility into timelines, feature sets, risk areas, and program decisions
- Anticipate GTM needs and ensure proactive planning for messaging, implementation pathways, training, and customer-facing collateral
- Serve as a connector across Product and GTM functions to promote consistent communication, aligned expectations, and coordinated execution
Team Leadership & Operational Excellence
- Manage and develop a team of program managers, providing coaching, guidance, and professional growth opportunities
- Define and champion program management best practices, templates, tools, and metrics across the organization
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase operational efficiency
- Capture and disseminate lessons learned to strengthen future programs
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of program or project management experience leading large, cross-functional programs
- Demonstrated success partnering with GTM functions such as marketing, sales, enablement, and customer-facing teams
- Experience managing products or programs through the full development lifecycle—from early discovery through launch and post-launch iteration
- Strong understanding of software development processes, content development workflows, or combined hardware/software/content ecosystems
- Excellent strategic thinking, analytical skills, and structured problem-solving abilities
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence without authority
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and bring clarity and stability to complex situations
- Strong organizational skills with a bias toward action, follow-through, and accountability
- Experience using modern program management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, Confluence)
- Prior people-management experience leading project or program managers
- A collaborative, low ego working style aligned with CA’s mission and values
- Experience in EdTech, Educational Publishing, SaaS, or other technology-enabled product environments strongly preferred
Curriculum Associates, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Curriculum Associates will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race (including ancestry, national origin, ethnic characteristics, interracial marriage or association, and traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion and creed (including all aspects of religious observance, practice and belief), sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, difference of sex development and variations of sex characteristics), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran or uniformed servicemember status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
If you need special assistance or an accommodation for a disability in order to apply for a posted position, please contact our People and Culture department at people@cainc.com for US based job postings. Contact people-india@cainc.com for India job postings.
US-based Candidates:
Curriculum Associates uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/employee-rights-and-responsibilities
Information that you provide when applying for employment with Curriculum Associates, LLC may be subject to the California Privacy Rights Act.
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.
Associate Director, Program Management
Remote, United States
At Curriculum Associates (CA), we believe a diverse team leads to innovations that help educators and students succeed. We are seeking an experienced Associate Director, Program Management to lead large, cross-functional programs that bring high-quality instructional products and services to market. In this role, you will drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Content, Design, Marketing, Customer Success, and other Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to ensure programs deliver on our strategic objectives and meet the needs of the educators and students we serve.
The impact you’ll have:
- Lead the successful delivery of complex, multi-year programs that advance CA’s product strategy and organizational goals
- Translate vision into clear program outcomes, milestones, timelines, and success measures
- Bring clarity and structure to ambiguous situations, helping teams align on priorities and decisions
- Strengthen the connection between Product and GTM teams to ensure clear communication, organizational readiness, and cohesive deliverables throughout the product lifecycle
- Drive continuous improvement in program management methodologies, tools, and standards across the company
What you’ll do:
Program Leadership
- Initiate, define, and socialize program goals in alignment with organizational strategy
- Build and manage the integrated program plan, ensuring coordination, transparency, and accountability across teams
- Lead programs through the full product development lifecycle—including Discovery, Definition, Development, and Launch—ensuring clarity of scope, timelines, and deliverables at each stage.
- Facilitate phase transitions and checkpoints; ensure teams are aligned with requirements, acceptance criteria, and readiness expectations.
- Oversee multiple workstreams and ensure balance of scope, time, cost, and quality
- Identify, manage, and mitigate risks, issues, and interdependencies
- Ensure accurate and timely documentation and reporting—including timelines, decision logs, risk registers, and program updates
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Maintain open, collaborative, and solution-oriented communication with stakeholders at all levels
- Drive alignment between Product, Engineering, Content, Design, and GTM teams; proactively synthesize complex information and ensure clarity across groups
- Facilitate decision-making processes and ensure shared understanding of tradeoffs and priorities
- Build trusted relationships that foster cross-team collaboration and accountability
Go-to-Market (GTM) Partnership
- Partner closely with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Sales, Professional Learning, and Operations teams to ensure organizational readiness for product launches and major milestones
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure downstream teams understand feature intent, customer value, and milestone timing throughout the development cycle
- Ensure GTM partners are engaged early in the product development process and prepared for launch through clear timelines, messaging, and resource planning
- Provide downstream teams with clear visibility into timelines, feature sets, risk areas, and program decisions
- Anticipate GTM needs and ensure proactive planning for messaging, implementation pathways, training, and customer-facing collateral
- Serve as a connector across Product and GTM functions to promote consistent communication, aligned expectations, and coordinated execution
Team Leadership & Operational Excellence
- Manage and develop a team of program managers, providing coaching, guidance, and professional growth opportunities
- Define and champion program management best practices, templates, tools, and metrics across the organization
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, streamline workflows, and increase operational efficiency
- Capture and disseminate lessons learned to strengthen future programs
What we’re looking for:
- 7+ years of program or project management experience leading large, cross-functional programs
- Demonstrated success partnering with GTM functions such as marketing, sales, enablement, and customer-facing teams
- Experience managing products or programs through the full development lifecycle—from early discovery through launch and post-launch iteration
- Strong understanding of software development processes, content development workflows, or combined hardware/software/content ecosystems
- Excellent strategic thinking, analytical skills, and structured problem-solving abilities
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence without authority
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and bring clarity and stability to complex situations
- Strong organizational skills with a bias toward action, follow-through, and accountability
- Experience using modern program management tools (e.g., Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, Confluence)
- Prior people-management experience leading project or program managers
- A collaborative, low ego working style aligned with CA’s mission and values
- Experience in EdTech, Educational Publishing, SaaS, or other technology-enabled product environments strongly preferred
Curriculum Associates, LLC is an equal opportunity employer. Curriculum Associates will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on any legally-recognized basis, including, but not limited to: race (including ancestry, national origin, ethnic characteristics, interracial marriage or association, and traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion and creed (including all aspects of religious observance, practice and belief), sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding, sex assigned at birth, difference of sex development and variations of sex characteristics), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing and characteristics), veteran or uniformed servicemember status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.
If you need special assistance or an accommodation for a disability in order to apply for a posted position, please contact our People and Culture department at people@cainc.com for US based job postings. Contact people-india@cainc.com for India job postings.
US-based Candidates:
Curriculum Associates uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit: https://www.e-verify.gov/employees/employee-rights-and-responsibilities
Information that you provide when applying for employment with Curriculum Associates, LLC may be subject to the California Privacy Rights Act.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Education
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Energy
- Manufacturing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in associate program director jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in public health, nonprofit management, education, or a related field
- Three or more years of program coordination or program management experience
- Experience developing and monitoring program budgets and grant deliverables
- Proficiency with project management tools and reporting systems
- Demonstrated ability to supervise staff or coordinate cross-functional teams
- Familiarity with logic models, program evaluation frameworks, or accreditation standards
Tips for Your Associate Program Director Job Search
Quantify program outcomes on your resume
Associate program directors are hired to deliver results, so your resume needs numbers tied to program performance. Cite participant counts, budget figures you managed, or measurable outcomes like completion rates or grant deliverables from each role you held.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists associate program director openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Tailor your resume to the sector
An associate program director resume for a healthcare system reads differently than one for a nonprofit or a federal contractor. Align your language, acronyms, and cited frameworks to the sector in each posting before you apply.
Search by program type, not just title
Many associate program director openings are posted with alternate titles like program manager, program operations lead, or associate director of programs. Search those variants alongside the primary title so you don't miss relevant openings.
Prepare a program case study for interviews
Hiring panels for associate program directors expect you to walk through a full program lifecycle you led or supported. Have one strong example ready that covers how you planned, launched, monitored, and adapted a program under real constraints.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
When you receive an offer, ask which programs you'll own versus support, and how budget authority is structured. These details affect your day-to-day decision-making power and are easier to clarify before you accept than after you start.
Associate Program Director Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most associate program directors?
Adventist Health, BRAVEN, and Lila Sciences are hiring the most associate program directors right now, with openings concentrated in California, Massachusetts, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, national nonprofits, and federal contractors tend to post the highest volume of these roles year-round.
How many associate program director jobs are remote?
About 54% of associate program director openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though availability varies by sector. Policy, grants management, and workforce development roles are most likely to offer remote flexibility, while clinical operations and community-based programs typically require on-site presence.
How do you become an associate program director?
Most associate program directors start in program coordinator or specialist roles, build experience managing workplans and budgets, then move into supervisory responsibilities. A bachelor's degree in a relevant field is standard, and many employers prefer candidates who have led at least one program from planning through evaluation. A master's degree in public administration, public health, or a related field can accelerate the path.
Can you get an associate program director job with little experience?
Some organizations hire candidates with limited direct program director experience if they have strong project management skills, relevant subject-matter expertise, or volunteer and internship leadership. Targeting smaller nonprofits, regional organizations, or newly funded programs gives you a better shot than applying to large institutions that require years of management history.
What does the associate program director interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a phone screen focused on your program management background, followed by one or two panel interviews with department leaders and cross-functional colleagues. Candidates are often asked to present a work sample or complete a scenario-based exercise. Final rounds may include a conversation with a senior director or executive sponsor of the program area.
Where can I find and apply to associate program director jobs?
You can find and apply to associate program director jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your sector and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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