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Remote associate program manager jobs are open across the U.S. in technology, healthcare, and financial services, at remote-first companies and distributed enterprise teams that need early-career program management support. Employers hiring remotely right now include Emory University, Whatnot, and Kennametal. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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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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Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Education
- Science & Research
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote associate program manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field
- Experience coordinating projects or programs across multiple teams or stakeholders
- Proficiency with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, or Monday.com
- Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or other iterative delivery frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for executive-facing updates
- PMP, CAPM, or equivalent project management certification preferred
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Remote hiring managers read your cover letter and email as evidence of how you'll communicate on the job. Write in short, structured paragraphs, lead with your point, and demonstrate you can move work forward in writing without back-and-forth.
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Remote associate program manager roles expect fluency with Jira, Asana, Confluence, or similar tools from day one. Name the specific tools you've used in your resume and briefly describe what you managed with them, not just that you used them.
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Remote Associate Program Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote associate program manager job?
Target remote-first companies and distributed enterprise teams in technology, SaaS, and healthcare, where associate program manager roles are most likely to be fully remote. Remote employers screen heavily for written communication, self-direction, and experience with async collaboration tools like Jira, Confluence, or Asana. Candidates who demonstrate project ownership, clear status reporting, and comfort managing work across time zones consistently stand out.
Which companies hire remote associate program managers?
Remote associate program manager roles are posted by Emory University, Whatnot, and Kennametal and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology firms, distributed healthcare organizations, and enterprise software companies are among the most active employers for this role.
Can you get a remote associate program manager job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level associate program manager roles are competitive because employers expect you to work independently from day one without in-person guidance. SaaS startups and nonprofit organizations are more likely to hire entry-level candidates remotely. Showing a completed project, a process you documented, or a certification like CAPM can substitute for direct experience and open doors.
Do you need a degree for remote associate program manager jobs?
Not always. Remote employers increasingly weigh demonstrated project coordination skills, tool proficiency, and measurable results alongside a degree. Candidates who can show they managed timelines, tracked deliverables, and communicated clearly in writing are competitive even without a four-year credential, particularly at remote-first companies and startups that prioritize output over credentials.
Which industries hire the most remote associate program managers?
Most remote associate program manager openings sit in Technology & Software, Education, and Science & Research, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely on distributed teams coordinating complex, multi-stakeholder work, making remote program management a practical and common structure.
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