Joyful Readers

Joyful Reading Co. is seeking an innovative, strategic, and mission-driven Head of Content & Curriculum to unlock our next stage of product growth, while ensuring we stay committed to our joyful reading ethos.

Reporting to the VP of Product, the Head of Content & Curriculum will lead content strategy and curriculum management across our product portfolio.

You will be the driving force behind product management and content development for a new Joyful Reading Co. platform that supports the science of reading through a guided agency framework aligned to our company's mission of making reading fun and full of joy. Additionally, you will lead curriculum alignment initiatives across the Joyful product portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product content development and product management for a new content platform, in collaboration with our publishing partner, engineering, and design. Establish and own the content and product roadmaps for the platform.
• Create and execute on a strategy for rapid content development, including the platform’s reading challenge design and engagement activities.
• Build, coach, and manage a team of contractors to produce content for the platform.
• Collaborate with our publishing partner to select the corpus of articles and books that fuel the platform.
• Take a user-first approach to development, consistently seeking input from our clients, team, and experts through user interviews, surveys, and market analysis.
• Serve as the resident expert on curriculum alignment across Beanstack, Comics Plus, the Reading Motivation Index, and emerging platforms, shaping strategy and influencing key product decisions.
• Own functional requirements and pedagogical guidance for curriculum-aligned features like future iterations of Comprehension Book Talks with Benny.
• Seek out, understand, and leverage existing use cases for curriculum alignment in Joyful product, e.g. identifying teachers that use Comics Plus content or Book Talks with Benny in their classrooms.

2. Supplemental Content & Support

• Develop a strategy and production plan for creating high-impact curriculum-aligned supplementary resources, teacher guides, and learning tools for Joyful Reading products to increase classroom utility and adoption.
• Play a key advisory role in the Beanstack reading challenge strategy, developing and testing ways to incorporate pedagogy into our challenge templates.
• Collaborate with school sales and client success to grow revenue and client engagement including joining sales and success customer meetings as needed.
• Partner with marketing to promote the educational value of our product suite, including writing white papers and blog posts, hosting or joining webinars, speaking at conferences and other needs that arise from time to time.
• Work with partners to publish efficacy studies.

Qualifications & Experience

• 2+ years of experience in K-12 EdTech product or content management.
• 2+ years in a leadership or people-management role, with a proven track record of developing high-performing content teams.
• Subject Matter Expertise and Experience: Experience as an educator, with deep understanding of K-12 curriculum standards, student agency, and modern reading instruction.
• Product Mindset: Strong background in digital product management or product-adjacent content development; comfortable translating pedagogical goals into clear functional requirements for technical teams.
• Strategic Execution: Proven capability to take large-scale initiatives from concept through execution.
• Communication Skills: Exceptional writer and communicator who can translate complex educational standards into engaging student resources and clear technical briefs.
• AI Fluency: Experience using AI tools to enhance curriculum and product development, with a strong willingness to continue learning and innovating with AI technologies.

Salary and Benefits

• Salary will range from $103,000 to $153,000, commensurate with qualifications and experience
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401K Plan with company match
• Participation in the company’s stock incentive plan
• Participation in the company's quarterly bonus plan for employees
• Work from home with the option to have the company lease co-working space on your behalf
• $500 home office setup stipend
• Optionally participate in our annual team “break” where we kick back together at a resort
• At least 15 vacation days annually + a one-weekwinter break from Xmas Eve to New Year's Day
• Office closed for all federal holidays

About Us

Joyful Reading Company brings together Beanstack, the leading reading engagement platform, and Comics Plus, the premier digital comics and graphic novel provider, to help create a world of joyful readers. We serve more than 15,000 public library and school clients in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Over ten million readers currently use our platform, Beanstack, to track their reading, earn incentives, and stay motivated to read.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We believe diversity breeds innovation. We're building a product that helps librarians, educators, and families everywhere, and to do that well, we need a workforce that’s representative of the population we serve. We are actively looking to add members to our team who will bring diverse backgrounds, new perspectives, and a willingness to challenge us to improve the work we do every day.

From the Heart

• Joy: We make reading fun and accessible. We fuel our work with empathy, kindness, and gratitude to create a lasting impact.
• Purpose: We advocate for all readers and celebrate unique perspectives. We lead with dedication, persistence, and diligence.
  
• Transparency: We balance openness with purpose. We meet challenges with curiosity and exchange feedback as opportunities for growth.
• Awesomeness: We go beyond \"good enough.\" We take ownership of outcomes, hold one another to high standards, and deliver quality solutions.