Manager, Assessment Content (Remote, US)

We are seeking a Manager, Assessment Content to own assessment content strategy, quality, and execution across all subject domains. Reporting to the Director, Assessment and Analytics (A&A) Portfolio, you'll lead a team of Assessment Content Designers and Content Contributors. You'll also be the team's chief operator — building the repeatable processes, tooling expectations, and cross-team consistency that allow assessment content to scale. This is a leadership role: you will not be writing items day to day, but your judgment will shape every item that ships and will set the bar for quality and experimentation.

Responsibilities

Own assessment content strategy, quality, and execution across all subject domains; Lead a team of Assessment Content Designers and Content Contributors; Build repeatable processes, tooling expectations, and cross-team consistency; Drive execution of the assessment content roadmap; Ensure content gaps are identified and closed across all subject areas; Monitor state and national standard changes and maintain current mappings; Manage large-scale projects with Content Designers, freelance contributors, and third-party vendors; Own the contributor and vendor quality framework; Collaborate with Product and Engineering to train AI models for content generation; Partner with Product, Engineering, Marketing and Customer-facing teams

Requirements

8+ years of experience in assessment content development at commercial scale (EdTech company, testing vendor, or educational publisher), with at least 2+ years in a people-management role; Demonstrated success leading teams that include senior individual contributors — coaching, calibrating, and developing item writers and content leads; Multi-subject standards fluency: command of CCSS, NGSS, and state-specific frameworks across multiple K–12 content areas, with the ability to set quality and alignment expectations even outside your strongest subject; Expert understanding of educational assessment design across formative, common, and summative contexts, including measurement principles and Depth of Knowledge (DOK); Track record managing freelance contributors and third-party vendors at scale, including building and running a quality framework with calibration and performance review; Strong project and production management skills — scoping work, building milestones, surfacing risk, and delivering against aggressive timelines; Demonstrated experience designing repeatable processes and championing tooling that helps a content team scale; Strong cross-functional partnership skills — comfortable collaborating with Product, Engineering, and customer-facing teams; Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between content, product, and engineering audiences

Nice to have

Experience collaborating with Product and Engineering on AI/ML-assisted content generation — including evaluating model outputs, defining guardrails, and informing training data needs; Familiarity with content authoring tools or interoperability standards such as QTI; Classroom teaching experience in one or more K–12 content areas; Exposure to item performance and psychometric data, and the ability to translate that data into content revision priorities; Experience leading content operations through significant scale or workflow change (e.g., new platform, new authoring model, new vendor strategy); Experience working with Pendo, Atlassian tools (Jira, Confluence), Tableau, and Heap

Benefits

Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts; Gym reimbursement, pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, Rocket Lawyer; Monthly tech stipend; Parental leave, fertility support, adoption; 401(k) plan with employer match; Flexible PTO, paid sick time off, company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st); Annual learning and development allowance