Amplify
Associate Director, ELD (Fixed-Term)
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $130K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ September 9th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Amplify is hiring an Associate Director, ELD (Fixed-Term) to lead the development of their English Language Development program for grades 6–8. The role involves setting product strategy, managing cross-functional teams, leveraging AI for content creation, and ensuring alignment with the California Adoption framework while driving literacy and language development outcomes.
Highlights
- Lead product strategy and oversee the development of the standalone ELD curriculum for grades 6–8.
- Coordinate cross-functional teams including content writers, digital producers, and designers.
- Leverage AI tools to innovate content creation and improve product quality and development efficiency.
- Manage stakeholder communication, providing regular updates to senior leadership and ensuring alignment.
- Establish quality assurance criteria to ensure curriculum efficacy and educational impact.
- Advocate for product users by understanding their needs through direct engagement and market research.
- Required: 6+ years of product management experience, 3+ years managing teams, experience with consumer-facing technology products, and strong communication skills.
- Preferred: Experience with English language acquisition, education for ELLs, and successful partnership with diverse stakeholders.
- Gross salary provided: $130,000 along with Amplify’s Total Rewards package including 401(k), stock options, and health benefits.
- This is a fixed-term role expected to end 9/30/2026.
Associate Director, ELD (Fixed-Term) Full Description
Associate Director, ELD (Fixed-Term)
Remote - United States
Full time
A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our 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 help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.
Job Description Summary:
We are looking for an Associate Director of Product to join our team. This person will lead development of our designated English Language Development (ELD) 6–8 program. The role is responsible for setting product strategy, providing thought leadership in defining product vision, prioritizing requirements, and executing on meaningful products that drive literacy and secondary language development, student engagement, and support teacher effectiveness.
The Associate Director works closely with the Associate Vice President of ELA curriculum, the Executive Director of Content, and the VP of ELA Education 6–12 to ensure the timely development of our ELD program, translating vision into concrete deliverables. The Associate Director also takes a leading role in overseeing the adherence to the California Adoption framework for Program 2.
The right candidate is excited about the potential of refreshing our previous designated ELD program, the promise of AI for efficient product development, and the challenge of meeting the California criteria on an accelerated timeline. We are passionate about building the best possible experience for teachers, students and administrators and seek a product manager who shares that passion.
*This is a fixed term role expected to end 9/30/2026.
Essential Responsibilities:
Project Leadership and Vision – Evolve and execute on strategic vision for the standalone ELD curriculum in alignment with the in flight 3rd edition ELA curriculum. Establish clear goals, timelines, and deliverables for the project, ensuring they align with organizational objectives and the accelerated timeline. Facilitate and promote a shared understanding of the project’s vision and objectives across all involved teams and stakeholders.
Team Coordination and Management - Coordinate efforts of cross-functional teams including content writers, digital producers, designers, and interaction developers, ensuring cohesive collaboration. Lead regular team meetings for project updates, feedback, and alignment on objectives.Foster a collaborative and innovative environment that encourages creativity and quality. Monitor project progress and recommend scoping adjustments as necessary to keep the project on track.
Content and Curriculum Design – Collaborate with the AI team to leverage AI in content creation, ensuring a scalable process that leads to quality output. Collaborate with content leadership to ensure the curriculum meets criteria for the California adoption framework Ca market needs and effectively supports ELD learners. Leverage AI tools to innovate our practices, in service of both more efficient development and increasing product quality/impact.
Stakeholder Communication - Serve as the main point of contact for stakeholders, providing regular progress updates and seeking their feedback and input. Communicate project status, challenges, and successes clearly and effectively to senior leadership and other stakeholders. Ensure alignment of all stakeholders on project goals, timelines, and outcomes.
Quality Assurance and Evaluation – Establish criteria and processes for evaluating the quality and efficacy of the curriculum throughout its development. Coordinate feedback gathering. Ensure the final product meets high standards of quality, usability, and educational impact.
Champion of our users – Become familiar with product users and act as the voice of the customer (internal and external) in the product development process - know what makes them happy and what data allows them to support and drive outcomes in the classroom and across Amplify. Meet with internal users to understand their needs, processes, and challenges - sales and marketing teams, spend time with teachers, students and administrators. Conduct market research and use that information to evolve the products to best meet the needs of our users, arrive at product market fit, and reach our ambitious reach, revenue, and impact goals. Identify and prioritize questions to answer with data, setting up the appropriate practices to support it.
Required Qualifications:
- 6+ years of operational product management and cross functional experience with a bachelors degree in related field or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- 3+ years experience managing teams
- Experience building consumer-facing technology products
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Strong organizational and project management skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Successful partnering with a diverse range of stakeholders to create focus and deliver complex systems and products in an ever-evolving environment
- Expertise/experience in English language acquisition, education for ELLs, or secondary literacy
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to create and maintain focus on key outcome
What we offer:
Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, stock options, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross salary for this role is $130,000.
Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.
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