United States onlyABOUT PER SCHOLAS:
For 30 years, Per Scholas has been on a mission to drive mobility and opportunity in the ever-advancing technology landscape by unlocking the untapped potential of individuals, uplifting communities, and meeting the needs of employers through rigorous tech training. By teaming up with dynamic employer partners, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to innovative startups, we're forging inclusive tech talent pipelines, fulfilling an ever-increasing need for skilled talent. With national remote training and campuses in 20+ cities and counting, Per Scholas offers no-cost training programs in the most sought-after tech skills, spanning Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data Engineering, IT Support, Software Engineering, and more. To date, 30,000+ individuals have been trained through Per Scholas, propelling their professional trajectories into high-growth tech careers with salaries three times higher than their pre-training earnings. Learn more by visiting PerScholas.org and follow us on LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
POSITION TITLE: Manager, Product Management, Compliance, and Accessibility
Location: Remote
Reports To: Director, Instructional Design and Development
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
Per Scholas is seeking a Manager of Product Management, Compliance, and Accessibility to become a national Product Development team member. The ideal candidate is a creative, detail-oriented, and problem-solving individual with strong organization, technical writing, content development and management skills, an ability to adapt quickly to a dynamic environment, and a strong sense of accountability. This role is responsible for ensuring all curricula meet compliance, licensing, and accessibility standards. This role will work closely with internal stakeholders - including instructional design, compliance, HR, recruitment and admissions, marketing, technical instruction, and professional development teams - to maintain up-to-date, accessible, and well-documented learning materials and licensing resources. The ideal candidate will have multi-jurisdictional experience working with state licensing boards, federal regulations, and will play a key role in ensuring compliance with ADA requirements and other regulatory standards in education.
WHAT YOU'LL DO:
Curriculum & Product Management:
- Assist the Director of Instructional Design and Development with product (curriculum) management, oversight, and project workflows.
- Define and track key success metrics and KPIs to measure progress toward accessibility objectives.
- Collaborate with the product development team, the instructional team, and other stakeholders to create, implement, and revise curriculum materials that meet accessibility and regulatory standards.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive licensing package for each curriculum, including change notes, syllabus, lesson planner, rubrics, technology details, equipment details, and resource documentation.
- Track and document curriculum updates similarly to software patch notes, ensuring transparency in versioning and instructional changes.
Compliance & Accessibility Oversight:
- Working closely with the Compliance Licensing team, ensure all curricula align with regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions, industry standards, and institutional policies.
- Verify that all curricula and learning materials comply with ADA standards and other accessibility guidelines.
- Identify and address curriculum pacing concerns to accommodate ADA learners.
- Develop guides on enabling accessibility features in learning materials,learning management systems and curriculum and assessment delivery and instruction.
- Work with IT and procurement to address accessibility-related equipment needs, ensuring compliance with ADA guidelines regarding student technology access.
Training & Support:
- Provide training for curriculum developers, instructors, and LMS (Canvas) administrators on accessibility, compliance, and best practices for curriculum development and delivery.
- Develop resources and guides for instructors in recording lectures on Zoom, leveraging AI-generated notes, summaries, and closed captioning.
- Offer ongoing support and professional development to ensure staff remain up to date on compliance and accessibility requirements.
Process Improvement & Quality Assurance:
- Collaborate with Product Quality and Experience experts to maintain ongoing oversight of training materials to ensure the quality and accuracy of the curriculum.
- Perform initial quality checks for all content development.
- Contribute to fine-tuning our content development process as we scale.
- Complete special projects and requests as opportunities arise.
WHAT YOU'LL BRING TO US:
Required Qualifications
- 1-3 years of work experience related to education, and/or training operations.
- At least one year of experience in creating VPATs and expertise in Section 508 standards and requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Education, Instructional Design, Curriculum Development, Compliance, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
- Experience working with ADA learners and ensuring compliance with accessibility standards.
- Strong background in curriculum management, instructional design, and compliance documentation.
- Demonstrable experience working within regulatory frameworks across multiple jurisdictions.
- Familiarity with LMS platforms (e.g., Canvas) and accessibility tools.
- Experience coordinating with multiple departments to align curricula with institutional and compliance needs.
- Strong project management and organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Familiarity with one or more e-learning authoring tools such as Adobe Captivate, Articulate 365, iSpring, Camtasia, etc.
- Exceptional verbal and writing skills.
- Familiarity with Instructional design methods such as ADDIE.
- Knowledge of Bloom's Taxonomy or other educational models.
- Proficient with Google Workspace.
- Experience working on concurrent priority projects while maintaining excellent attention to detail.
- Self-starter with strong interpersonal, communication, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to take ownership over tasks and meet short and long-term deliverables.
- A passion for continuous improvement and keeping current on the latest trends in learning.
- Willingness to adapt to evolving compliance and accessibility requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working for a bootcamp type of environment designing, developing and managing curriculum.
- Experienced teaching and/or coaching adult learners.
- Operations or product management experience.
- Work experience in at least one information technology domain.
- Experience creating diagrams, workflows, and wireframing.
Personal Characteristics
- You thrive in a creative, inventive, fast-paced startup environment with people who are passionate about their work and mission.
- You are quality-driven, results-oriented, and a forward-looking catalyst for social change.
- You have a collaborative and flexible work style. You're excited to work cross-functionally with other departments and independently.
- You are an effective communicator with strong oral and written skills.
- You are tech-savvy and learn new tools quickly.
- You exhibit exceptional attentiveness to detail and time management.
- You stand behind our mission, believing that individuals from any community should have access to well-paying career positions and that talent should be recognized and recruited from many diverse sources.
For this role specifically, we are targeting a salary range of $65,000 - $70,000 where the difference in salary is typically determined by several factors, including geography in which the selected candidate resides, and alignment with qualifications and experience.
QUESTIONS?
If you have any questions about this role, please feel free to email our Talent team at [email protected]. We look forward to viewing your application!
Equal Employment Opportunity
We're proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
