A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.
Overview
The Vice President, Humanities Publishing ("VP Publishing") will provide the leadership, experience, and strategic direction that enables Amplify to publish a K-12 Humanities core curriculum that will dramatically improve classrooms and win significant market share in major state and district adoptions across the US.
The VP Publishing will work with Amplify leadership across design, curriculum, engineering, sales, marketing, and implementation to drive product vision and collaborate to build and execute against the product roadmap, ensuring a successful product.
Responsibilities
Product Vision: The VP Publishing will help define the Amplify Humanities product through the lens of product-market fit and competitive market positioning. In making product decisions with the GM, the VP Publishing will serve as a voice of adoption committees, curriculum buyers, and Humanities teachers.
Product Development: The VP Publishing will oversee product development in software, print, and physical manipulatives, ensuring the product will be listed for adoption and ultimately purchased, is properly budgeted, and achieves good product-market fit. The VP Publishing will design testing programs to validate product decisions.
Print Product: The VP Publishing will manage design and development of the print and physical components (i.e., physical manipulatives) of the Amplify Humanities product.
Unified Product Experience: The VP Publishing will be responsible for working across the product teams (engineering, design, etc.) to shape products and services that are consistent from a user and external market perspective. This may include consistency with other Amplify core curriculum products, or with other Amplify Humanities -related products (i.e., Amplify Fractions and mClass).
Business Champion: The VP Publishing will be a visible leader for Amplify Humanities, championing the product with internal stakeholders including Sales management, the Executive team, and department leads. Working closely with Sales, the VP Publishing will incorporate and adapt to feedback from customers, teachers and students, as well as input from Amplify Sales and external subject experts. This includes riding along with Sales to classroom visits and district meetings.
The VP Publishing will track customer feedback, competitors and market trends, using the data to adapt and evolve Amplify Humanities such that the product experience supports Amplify in becoming a market leader.
To do all of this well, we think the VP Publishing needs to:

• Be a compelling leader who will build trusted relationships with colleagues from wide-ranging disciplines
• Coach a talented team to deliver at a high standard
• Be focused on achieving outcomes related to producing a best in class product that complements Amplify's existing product suite
• Exhibit judgement and expertise about how to design a winning product.

Our VP Publishing will have most of these qualifications:

• You've worked in education at a leadership level - at a core publisher, an innovative product company, and/or in a school district.
• You have first hand experience with, and understand the process for ensuring best practices are integrated into every aspect of a product's evolution
• You combine outstanding relationship management skills with ruthless execution
• You have managed a team, building a cohesive culture while holding them accountable for high performance goals
• You have professional familiarity with the educational context of Amplify's constituencies
• You share Amplify's commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Work at Amplify is fast-moving, demanding and - we believe - deeply meaningful. We expect a lot of commitment, talent, grit, and optimism. In return, Amplifiers get:

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits including - 401k, paid parental leave, back-up childcare/eldercare, pet insurance and more...
• Unlimited vacation
• Awesome office space in DUMBO
• To collaborate with amazing, diverse colleagues who are building a company that reshapes how students learn and teachers teach

Team: The VP Publishing will oversee the engineering team (via Product Owner and the Senior Engineer, who reports up through Engineering), the piloting team (via the Pilot Coordinator), and the design team (via the Product Designer, who reports up through Design). The VP Publishing may be assisted by a Product Manager.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.
This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.
Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.