Kiddom provides schools and districts with access to high-quality curricula in Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies.
The Role
The Program Manager coordinates operational execution of state and district adoption strategies, managing timelines and ensuring alignment across multiple teams for RFP responses.
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About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
The Program Manager, Adoptions & RFPs, coordinates the operational execution of Kiddom’s state and district adoption strategy. This role is responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving large-scale curriculum adoptions and RFP responses across multiple states and districts, ensuring Kiddom is prepared, aligned, and competitive at every stage of the process.
This role sits at the intersection of content, product, sales, and customer success, turning adoption requirements and timelines into clear plans, tracking readiness across teams, and ensuring nothing critical is missed The Program Manager acts as the single source of truth for adoption and RFP execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Adoption & RFP Program Ownership: Own end-to-end program management for state adoptions, district adoptions, and formal RFPs, from early signal through submission and post-submission follow-up.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner closely with Curriculum, Product, Content Ops, Sales, and Customer Success to drive adoption readiness.
- Process & Execution Management: Define and continuously improve standardized processes for adoption tracking, RFP responses, and submission workflows.
- Readiness, Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify gaps or risks related to standards alignment, content coverage, platform capabilities, translations, pricing, or implementation requirements.
- Communication: Serve as the internal point of contact for adoption and RFP status.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of program or project management experience in complex, cross-functional environments, PMP certification preferred
- Demonstrated experience managing complex timelines across multiple stakeholders and dependencies.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage many parallel workstreams and long-range timelines.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and adapting plans as requirements evolve.
- Strong team player, with ability to work independently, as well as in a team setting
- Able to handle confidential material in a reliable manner
Bonus:
- Experience in K–12 education, instructional materials, edtech, or public-sector procurement.
- Familiarity with state curriculum adoption processes and state purchasing structures.
- Experience building scalable operational systems (templates, trackers, dashboards).
- Familiarity with standards alignment, instructional content workflows, or assessment programs.
Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
* Competitive salary
* Meaningful equity
* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
* One Medical membership (in participating locations)
* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
* Paid holidays
* Paid bereavement leave
* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
* Commuter and FSA plans
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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The Company
What We Do
Kiddom unleashes the full potential of high-quality instructional materials paired with effective tech enhancements and hand-in-hand support to help teachers do what teachers do best, teach with a human touch. For over 10 years, we’ve been combining valuable open educational resources with simple, flexible technology. Our feature-rich learning platform gives teachers time back, so they can do what they do best, teach. Accelerate planning, instructional delivery, assessment, and reporting while using proven-curriculum teaches already know and love.
Why Work With Us
We innovate at the speed of technology. We are introducing new AI features to streamline routine teacher tasks and more equitably serve student needs. We’re dedicated to developing AI enhancements that drastically improve the teacher’s ability to unpack, understand, and implement HQIM with fidelity.
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