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Program Management Specialist green card sponsorship follows the EB-2 or EB-3 employment-based path, requiring your employer to complete PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor before filing an I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS. Per-country limits mean priority-date backlogs vary by nationality, so starting the process early with a sponsoring employer matters.
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The Curriculum Product Program Manager leads end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives. Working across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, Quality Assurance, and external partners, the PM translates goals into executable plans and drives high-quality delivery aligned with business, learner, and customer needs.
The PM owns project planning and execution from initiation through launch and closeout, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, changes, stakeholder accountability, and project-health visibility. Success requires strong judgment, communication, relationship management, and problem-solving in a dynamic, distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple curriculum and content-development projects from initiation through launch and closeout.
- Define scope, outcomes, deliverables, milestones, schedules, dependencies, roles, and measures of success with stakeholders.
- Build and maintain integrated project plans across content creation, reviews, approvals, QA, remediation, and release readiness.
- Drive work toward committed dates, negotiating realistic priorities and timelines as conditions change.
- Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts.
- Lead mitigation and problem-solving; escalate with clear context, impact, options, and a recommended path forward.
- Maintain decision and change records and ensure stakeholders understand approved changes and downstream effects.
- Establish effective governance, communication, and meeting rhythms for the project and audience.
- Provide concise status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and leadership needs.
- Create clear accountability for decisions and actions while building trusted relationships across teams and partners.
- Maintain accessible, current documentation and a consistent source of truth.
- Coordinate curriculum deliverables, reviews, feedback, approvals, and dependencies across internal teams and external partners.
- Manage partner performance against scope, schedule, quality expectations, and delivery projections; drive recovery plans when needed.
- Ensure work follows applicable content, accessibility, academic integrity, review, and quality-assurance processes.
- Drive QA findings and remediation through closure and verify delivery completeness and readiness.
- Lead retrospectives and convert lessons learned into practical improvements.
- Identify recurring delivery or process issues and recommend scalable solutions.
- Use effective PM practices, dashboards, workflow automation, collaboration tools, and responsible AI to improve visibility and efficiency.
Core Competencies
Competency
What It Looks Like
Product Planning
Understands product priorities and roadmaps and translates them into actionable project plans, timelines, and dependencies.
Stakeholder Engagement
Builds alignment and shared understanding across internal teams and partners.
Data Analysis
Uses delivery data and stakeholder feedback to flag risks and inform decisions.
Adaptability
Adjusts priorities and approaches as scope, timelines, and conditions change.
Learning to Learn
Seeks out new knowledge and applies lessons learned to improve delivery.
Artificial Intelligence
Uses AI tools to streamline planning, reporting, and documentation.
Organizational Skills
Manages multiple deliverables, timelines, and documentation at once.
Program Process Monitoring
Assesses program processes and recommends practical improvements.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
3+ years of project or program management experience in a business environment; experience in curriculum, education technology, digital products, publishing, or a related field is preferred.
Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
Strong planning, risk and change management, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities, establish accountability, and drive teams toward committed milestones.
Experience working with distributed teams and modern project-management and collaboration tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with curriculum, educational content, digital learning products, or comparable content-development programs.
- Experience managing external partners, vendors, or distributed production teams.
- Knowledge of curriculum-development lifecycles, QA, accessibility, academic standards, state approvals, or digital publishing workflows.
- Experience with Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery and with dashboards, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools.
- PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile, or comparable project/program management certification.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.
The full-time salary range for this role is $85,000 – $95,000.
This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.
Applications will be accepted through November 30, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Job: Product Management
Job Family: PRODUCT
Organization: Virtual Learning
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Remote
Req ID: 26548
LI-REMOTE
Position Summary
The Curriculum Product Program Manager leads end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development initiatives. Working across Product, Curriculum, Content, Operations, Technology, Quality Assurance, and external partners, the PM translates goals into executable plans and drives high-quality delivery aligned with business, learner, and customer needs.
The PM owns project planning and execution from initiation through launch and closeout, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, changes, stakeholder accountability, and project-health visibility. Success requires strong judgment, communication, relationship management, and problem-solving in a dynamic, distributed environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead multiple curriculum and content-development projects from initiation through launch and closeout.
- Define scope, outcomes, deliverables, milestones, schedules, dependencies, roles, and measures of success with stakeholders.
- Build and maintain integrated project plans across content creation, reviews, approvals, QA, remediation, and release readiness.
- Drive work toward committed dates, negotiating realistic priorities and timelines as conditions change.
- Proactively identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, scope, and change impacts.
- Lead mitigation and problem-solving; escalate with clear context, impact, options, and a recommended path forward.
- Maintain decision and change records and ensure stakeholders understand approved changes and downstream effects.
- Establish effective governance, communication, and meeting rhythms for the project and audience.
- Provide concise status reporting on progress, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and leadership needs.
- Create clear accountability for decisions and actions while building trusted relationships across teams and partners.
- Maintain accessible, current documentation and a consistent source of truth.
- Coordinate curriculum deliverables, reviews, feedback, approvals, and dependencies across internal teams and external partners.
- Manage partner performance against scope, schedule, quality expectations, and delivery projections; drive recovery plans when needed.
- Ensure work follows applicable content, accessibility, academic integrity, review, and quality-assurance processes.
- Drive QA findings and remediation through closure and verify delivery completeness and readiness.
- Lead retrospectives and convert lessons learned into practical improvements.
- Identify recurring delivery or process issues and recommend scalable solutions.
- Use effective PM practices, dashboards, workflow automation, collaboration tools, and responsible AI to improve visibility and efficiency.
Core Competencies
Competency
What It Looks Like
Product Planning
Understands product priorities and roadmaps and translates them into actionable project plans, timelines, and dependencies.
Stakeholder Engagement
Builds alignment and shared understanding across internal teams and partners.
Data Analysis
Uses delivery data and stakeholder feedback to flag risks and inform decisions.
Adaptability
Adjusts priorities and approaches as scope, timelines, and conditions change.
Learning to Learn
Seeks out new knowledge and applies lessons learned to improve delivery.
Artificial Intelligence
Uses AI tools to streamline planning, reporting, and documentation.
Organizational Skills
Manages multiple deliverables, timelines, and documentation at once.
Program Process Monitoring
Assesses program processes and recommends practical improvements.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.
3+ years of project or program management experience in a business environment; experience in curriculum, education technology, digital products, publishing, or a related field is preferred.
Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
Strong planning, risk and change management, facilitation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to manage competing priorities, establish accountability, and drive teams toward committed milestones.
Experience working with distributed teams and modern project-management and collaboration tools.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with curriculum, educational content, digital learning products, or comparable content-development programs.
- Experience managing external partners, vendors, or distributed production teams.
- Knowledge of curriculum-development lifecycles, QA, accessibility, academic standards, state approvals, or digital publishing workflows.
- Experience with Agile, hybrid, or iterative delivery and with dashboards, workflow automation, or AI-enabled tools.
- PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile, or comparable project/program management certification.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.
The full-time salary range for this role is $85,000 – $95,000.
This position is eligible for Pearson’s annual incentive program. Information on benefits can be found here.
Applications will be accepted through November 30, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Job: Product Management
Job Family: PRODUCT
Organization: Virtual Learning
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Remote
Req ID: 26548
LI-REMOTE
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Program Management Specialist
Align your credentials to EB-2 requirements
EB-2 eligibility for Program Management Specialist roles hinges on an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive experience in program planning, stakeholder coordination, or policy implementation. Document each role's scope and seniority carefully before your employer files.
Search verified sponsors using Migrate Mate
Target employers who have already completed PERM filings for program management occupations. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history by role, so you're applying to organizations already familiar with the EB-2 and EB-3 process.
Understand the PERM recruitment test before interviewing
Your employer must run a DOL-mandated recruitment test before filing PERM, advertising the role at the prevailing wage and documenting that no qualified U.S. workers applied. Knowing this timeline helps you set realistic expectations about when an I-140 can follow.
Verify prevailing wage using the OFLC Wage Search
Program Management Specialist salaries vary significantly by agency level and metropolitan area. Check the OFLC Wage Search for the prevailing wage at your target location before negotiating an offer, so your compensation meets the DOL threshold required for PERM certification.
Review the O*NET profile for your occupation code
PERM filings reference a specific SOC code for Program Management Specialist duties. Reviewing O*NET confirms which tasks and skills define that code, helping you identify mismatches early if your actual duties overlap with a different occupation that could complicate the PERM process.
Protect your priority date if you change employers
Once your original I-140 is approved, your priority date can carry over to a new employer's I-140 petition. AC21 job portability also lets you change to a same or similar occupation once your I-485 has been pending 180 days, without losing your place in the queue.
Green Card Program Management Specialist: Frequently Asked Questions
How does green card sponsorship for a Program Management Specialist differ from H-1B sponsorship?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residence, not a temporary status. For Program Management Specialist roles, the employer must complete PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor before filing an I-140 petition with USCIS, a multi-step process that H-1B visa sponsorship does not require. Per-country priority-date backlogs can also extend the timeline significantly depending on your nationality.
Which green card category fits a Program Management Specialist with a bachelor's degree?
EB-3 covers professionals with a bachelor's degree, and EB-2 applies if you hold an advanced degree or a bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in program planning or related work. Your employer's immigration attorney will determine which category fits your credentials and the job's minimum requirements before filing PERM.
How do I find employers who sponsor green cards for program management roles?
Start with Migrate Mate, which lists employers with verified employment-based green card sponsorship history searchable by role and location. This lets you focus your applications on organizations that have already navigated the PERM and I-140 process for program management occupations rather than approaching employers who may be unfamiliar with the sponsorship requirements.
What does the PERM process involve for a Program Management Specialist role?
Your employer must obtain a prevailing wage determination from the DOL, run a formal recruitment test documenting that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the role, then submit the PERM application to the DOL for certification. Only after PERM is certified can the employer file the I-140 immigrant petition with USCIS on your behalf.
Can I switch employers while my green card application is pending?
Two separate protections apply. If your original I-140 was approved, your priority date can be retained on a new employer's I-140 petition. Separately, once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, AC21 portability lets you change to the same or a similar occupation, including comparable program management roles, without restarting the entire process.