Job Description
Program Manager- New Products & Markets
Fully Remote • Remote Worker – N/A • Technology and Operations
Job Type
Full-time
Description
About us
Wayside Publishing is a progressive developer of world language programs, resources, and materials for middle and high schools across the United States. We partner with educators to craft transformative texts and digital tools that engage students and foster successful communication and understanding across cultures. We’d like to hear from you if you seek a varied and fast-paced environment and possess a strong mix of applicable skills.
Requirements
About the job
At Wayside Publishing, we have set highly ambitious goals for our company that will require close collaboration across a wide array of functions and teams. As the New Products & Markets Program Manager, you will lead complex, mission-critical initiatives to successful outcomes, partnering with leadership and cross-departmental stakeholders to drive their vision. Your work will directly contribute to Wayside Publishing’s growth as a disruptive educational publisher and technology company.
You’ll be charting a course with milestones, influencing and supporting individuals across teams to hit goals, and balancing robust risk tactics against the need for speed and quality. We’ll count on your judgment and understanding of how people and teams achieve goals and rely on you to guide prioritization and planning. You’ll bring a keen and deep understanding of project management.
Most importantly, be ready to inspire your colleagues with how your project management aptitude can enable them to achieve their goals with minimal turbulence.
- Guide teams to successfully deliver complex, cross-functional, and critical initiatives
- Drive goal-setting and planning activities, working with your manager to identify and guide the right teams to ensure high-performance execution
- Identify gaps where resources are needed to achieve high-quality results
- Evaluate and clarify complex technical issues and communicate pros and cons of different solutions
- Proactively and objectively mitigate risks to prevent issues – and when issues arise, rally the team to resolve the situation and minimize consequences
- Efficiently and regularly communicate up, down, and sideways so that the status of our initiatives is clear across those who need to know
- Enhance our project management toolkit with your expertise and ongoing learning, support and train staff, and be available to people in the organization who want to learn
- Influence your work environment positively, both in terms of culture and quality of work
- Other duties as assigned
About You
We value diversity. Brilliant project managers come from all backgrounds, united around their ability to build relationships, influence, communicate, problem-solve, and ultimately drive to goal achievement. Some of the qualities needed to be successful here include:
- 5+ years of work experience in project management or equivalent in a role focused on guiding teams to achieve goals through influence and effective planning.
- PMP certification preferred.
- Experience with Microsoft SharePoint, CRM Systems, Microsoft Project, or Wrike.
- Able to get to the heart of ambiguous problems, articulate goals and the levers to achieve them, then mobilize team members to go forward.
- Proven ability to build rapport, trust, and alignment across the organization, from individual contributors to VPs, technical or non-technical, using multiple modes of communication.
- A detail-oriented and big-picture thinker, who can quickly tailor their approach to the situation.
- Highly resilient; you find strength and motivation when faced with unforeseen challenges and roadblocks because you have practiced techniques for staying calm and collected, and you have a problem-solving mindset.
- Preferred: Direct experience in the publishing industry, such that you’re able to join us already speaking the language of editorial, production, technology, sales, and operations teams.
- Takes initiative with a positive, can-do attitude.
- Values a friendly and cooperative development environment.
- Easily and eagerly adopts new technology.
- Open to feedback.
- Obsessively attentive to details and respectful of deadlines.
- Learns and applies new skills quickly.
- Responds to stressful situations calmly and effectively.
- Be curious, continue to learn, adapt to change, embrace different perspectives, and guide the team to embody Wayside Publishing’s values.
- Experience working in a small and dynamic company.
- A passion to learn and grow in a terrific company in a wonderful and necessary industry.
- Curiosity and positivity are always welcome.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation: base salary plus achievement-based incentive program, uncapped potential.
- Health insurance with options for dental, vision, life insurance, and more
- Retirement savings plan with employer contribution
- Employer-paid STD and LTD policies
- Paid holidays
- Work/life balance as a company value
We believe that traditional hiring policies can hurt the most marginalized people in society, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and LGBTQ people. Because we believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.
Wayside Publishing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.
When submitting your application, please include a concise cover letter that speaks to your experience, and why this role is the next best step in your career.
Salary Description
$70,000 to $90,000 annually