State Adoption Manager

State Adoption Manager

What We Seek

You're someone who loves turning complexity into action. You enjoy coordinating projects with lots of moving pieces, building relationships across teams, and keeping important initiatives moving forward. You're detail-oriented, proactive, and comfortable balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a high standard of quality.

As a State Adoption Manager, you'll manage curriculum adoption opportunities within assigned states and serve as a key partner to teams across Carnegie Learning. Working closely with Sales, Product, Curriculum, Marketing, Legal, and other stakeholders, you'll coordinate adoption activities from planning through submission, ensuring requirements are met, deadlines stay on track, and opportunities are positioned for success. Through your work, you'll help expand access to the instructional solutions that support educators and students every day.

What Your Day Will Look Like

• Manage curriculum adoption activities for assigned states, coordinating projects from planning through submission and review.
• Develop and maintain adoption project plans, timelines, and deliverables to ensure deadlines and requirements are met.
• Review state adoption requirements and communicate expectations, risks, and key milestones to stakeholders.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Curriculum, Marketing, Legal, and other teams to gather content, secure approvals, and coordinate submission materials.
• Monitor adoption schedules, regulatory updates, and state requirements to ensure compliance throughout the adoption process.
• Track project status and proactively communicate updates, risks, and action items to stakeholders.
• Support the development and maintenance of adoption-related processes, templates, resources, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve workflows and increase efficiency across adoption planning and execution activities.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation related to adoption submissions and outcomes.
• Support additional projects and responsibilities as assigned.

What Should Be In Your Bookbag

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience managing complex projects, programs, operations, curriculum initiatives, educational publishing processes, or similar cross-functional work.
  
  
  
  • Strongly preferred: Experience in K-12 education, educational publishing, curriculum development, or education technology, particularly in roles involving state curriculum adoptions or instructional materials review processes.
  
  
  
  
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while balancing competing priorities and deadlines.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively with stakeholders across multiple teams and levels of an organization.
• Experience interpreting requirements, identifying risks, and developing plans to ensure successful project execution.
• Comfort working in a dynamic environment where priorities, timelines, and requirements may evolve.

What Gives Us Purpose

Others teach what; we teach why. For over 25 years, Carnegie Learning has developed solutions that help students achieve Aha moments and set them up for long-term learning success. We're driven to find new, better ways to support teachers and reach more students, so we put our leading cognitive science research and real-world insights into solutions for how students think, learn, and do their best. This is a key part of our commitment to helping teachers spark student curiosity. As a Carnegie Learning team member, you'll work alongside a team of passionate individuals dedicated to making a real difference in the lives of students and educators.

What We Provide

• Holistic Wellbeing
  
  
  
  • An inclusive range of Health Insurance options
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance at no cost to you
  
  
  
  
• Fostering Joy
  
  
  
  • Flexible work arrangements with our Work From Anywhere Policy
  • Your Time, Your Way - paid time off that you can use as you see fit to recharge and nurture your personal life
  
  
  
  
• Empowering Parenthood
  
  
  
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Reduced working hours on full pay for soon-to-be and new parents
  • Free access to CL products for employees and their children
  
  
  
  
• A Place for Connection
  
  
  
  • Quarterly Wellness Incentives
  • Monthly employee activities + recognition program
  • Employee Allyship Groups (EAGs)
  
  
  
  

What We Believe

We celebrate the unique attributes, characteristics, and perspectives that define each person's individuality. This fusion of perspectives enriches our collective knowledge, fosters innovation, and empowers us all. Together, we can collectively and more effectively address issues that face our business and industry.

If our commitment to building an inclusive workplace resonates with you, we invite you to join our mission and welcome you to apply with us. Carnegie Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.