Program Management Specialist Jobs in USA with Visa Sponsorship
Program Management Specialist roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship as a specialty occupation requiring a bachelor's degree in business, management, or a related field. Employers in federal contracting, healthcare, and tech regularly file LCAs for this title. No lottery exemptions apply, but the cap has never blocked qualified candidates with strong employer backing.
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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 Visa Sponsorship as a Program Management Specialist
Match your degree to the role description
Consular officers and USCIS adjudicators look for a direct link between your degree field and program management duties. A business administration or project management degree maps cleanly, but an unrelated field like art history will trigger an RFE.
Target federal contractors for LCA filings
Federal contractors managing government programs are among the most consistent LCA filers for Program Management Specialist roles. Defense agencies, IT services firms, and healthcare contractors file regularly because the role is embedded in their project delivery structure.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsors
Search Migrate Mate for Program Management Specialist positions at employers with verified LCA filing history. This filters out companies that list the title but have never actually sponsored the role, saving you weeks of dead-end applications.
Pull your prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for your target metro area before your offer call. Employers must pay at least the prevailing wage on the LCA, so knowing the floor protects you from lowball offers that wouldn't survive DOL review.
Clarify the LCA job title during offer discussions
Employers sometimes list a job internally as a Program Manager but file the LCA under a different occupational title. Confirm the exact title on the LCA before you sign, because a mismatch between your offer letter and the certified LCA can complicate your visa application.
Prepare a PMP credential or equivalent evidence
If your degree isn't in a directly related field, a Project Management Professional certification from PMI or equivalent documented experience strengthens the specialty occupation argument. USCIS accepts professional credentials alongside degrees when evaluating qualification for the role.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Program Management Specialist role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer's job description requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as business administration, management information systems, or engineering. Generic program coordinator roles that accept any degree are more likely to face a specialty occupation RFE. The stronger the degree requirement in the posting, the cleaner the H-1B petition.
Which visa types are realistic for a Program Management Specialist seeking sponsorship?
H-1B is the primary path for most nationalities. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which carries a separate annual cap and no lottery. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role is classified under a matching USMCA profession. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 is possible once you're in-status and your employer is willing to initiate PERM labor certification.
What degree does an employer need to specify to support H-1B sponsorship for this role?
USCIS requires that the position normally requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific specialty. For Program Management Specialist roles, degrees in business administration, public administration, project management, or a field tied to the program's subject matter work best. Degrees in unrelated fields can still qualify if the employer documents a clear theoretical link between the degree and the job duties.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor Program Management Specialist roles?
Browse Program Management Specialist listings on Migrate Mate, which shows only employers with verified sponsorship history for this role type. This cuts through job postings that don't disclose sponsorship status and lets you focus your applications on companies that have already demonstrated willingness to file.
Can I transfer my H-1B to a new Program Management Specialist role without losing status?
Yes. Under H-1B portability, you can start working for a new employer once they file a new I-129 petition on your behalf, as long as you're currently in valid H-1B status. The new employer must file a new LCA certified for the position's location and wage level. You don't need to wait for USCIS to approve the petition before starting work, which protects your continuity.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Program Management Specialist jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.