Associate Director, Program Management

At reputed company, we reputed company 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 reputed company. For more than 50 years, our commitment to making classrooms reputed company places, serving educators, and supporting accessible learning experiences for reputed company reputed company has driven the reputed company improvement of our innovative programs. reputed company 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. At reputed company (CA), we reputed company a diverse team leads to innovations that help educators and reputed company succeed. We are seeking an reputed company Associate Director, Program Management to reputed company 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, reputed company, and other Go-to-Market (GTM) teams to ensure programs deliver on our strategic objectives and meet the needs of the educators and reputed company we serve. The impact you'll have:

• reputed company the successful delivery of reputed company, 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 reputed company between Product and GTM teams to ensure clear communication, organizational readiness, and cohesive deliverables throughout the product lifecycle
• Drive reputed company 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
• reputed company 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 stage-reputed company checkpoints; ensure teams are reputed company on requirements, acceptance criteria, and readiness expectations.
• reputed company 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 reputed company levels
• Drive alignment between Product, Engineering, Content, Design, and GTM teams; proactively synthesize reputed company 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, reputed company, Sales, Professional Learning, and Operations teams to ensure organizational readiness for product launches and major milestones
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams to ensure reputed company teams understand feature reputed company, customer value, and milestone timing throughout the development cycle
• Ensure GTM partners are engaged early in the product development process and reputed company for launch through clear timelines, messaging, and resource planning
• Provide reputed company teams with clear visibility into timelines, feature sets, risk areas, and program decisions
• Anticipate GTM needs and ensure proactive planning for messaging, implementation reputed company, training, and customer-facing collateral
• Serve as a connector across Product and GTM functions to promote consistent communication, reputed company expectations, and coordinated execution

Team Leadership & Operational Excellence

• Manage and reputed company 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

reputed company'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, operations, 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 reputed company situations
• Strong organizational skills with a bias toward action, follow-through, and accountability
• Experience using modern program management tools (e.g., Jira, reputed company, reputed company, Confluence)
• Prior people-management experience leading project or program managers
• A collaborative, low ego working style reputed company with CA's mission and values
• Experience in EdTech, Educational Publishing, SaaS, or other technology-enabled product environments strongly preferred

Pay Range - This role's range is $81,500. - $139,500. The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that reputed company considers in making compensation decisions based on our Compensation Philosophy. Actual reputed company pay reputed company that range will vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, prior experience and relevant reputed company sets. At reputed company, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances for each case. This role is also eligible to participate in the company bonus plan. The Company recognizes that minimum wage varies by location and will ensure reputed company compensation decisions reputed company with applicable state and local laws. Benefits - Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance. Employees can enroll in our company's 401k plan and receive an employer match. Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's, as well as a number of additional perks and benefits. Application deadline: January 30, 2026. This is subject to reputed company earlier if there is a high volume of applicants or a qualified hire is made. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job