Project Manager / Scrum Master, Amplify
Product Data Integrity, Contractor
The hourly rate range for this role is $36.00-$44.00.
K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
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K-12 curriculum & assessment publisher
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
The hourly rate range for this role is $36.00-$44.00.
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help educators create the next generation of scientific innovators as well as citizens who are sceptical, curious, and evidence-based thinkers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of project management experience in educational publishing, edtech, or related industries
- 2+ years of experience working in agile environments (Scrum Master or equivalent role)
- Hands-on experience with JIRA (or similar tools) for workflow and backlog management
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and managing complex, interdependent projects
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
- Background in supply chain, operations, or product lifecycle management
- Cross-functional leadership and influence without authority
- Agile mindset with a focus on execution and continuous improvement
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Operational rigor and attention to detail
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to complex workflows
Desirable
- Experience with product setup, configuration, or data management in systems such as Salesforce or NetSuite
- Familiarity with print production, digital products, or instructional materials
- Experience driving process improvement or operational efficiency initiatives
- Working knowledge of financial concepts (e.g., cost structures, margin considerations)
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and data accuracy
What the job involves
- This role serves as a cross-functional project leader and Scrum Master supporting the end-to-end lifecycle of educational products—from initial setup through product changes and eventual deactivation. Partnering closely with Editorial, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Product teams, this individual ensures that product decisions are translated into clear, executable workstreams and accurately reflected across systems
- The role combines project management discipline with agile facilitation, driving visibility, accountability, and efficiency across complex, interdependent workflows
- It plays a critical role in maintaining product data integrity, enabling operational readiness, and ensuring a seamless customer experience. This position supports the Executive Director of Product Data Integrity in driving both near- and long-term excellence in product configuration, data integrity, and operational efficiency
- Facilitate product setup, updates, and deactivation initiatives across Editorial, Marketing, Supply Chain, Finance, and Product teams
- Translate business requirements received through JIRA intake into structured epics and tasks, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, and dependencies in accordance with established SOPs
- Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, tradeoffs, and misaligned deliverables; escalate issues to PR Managers for resolution
- Serve as Scrum Master for PDI departmental workflows, aligning work to sprint planning, stand-ups, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
- Manage and optimize JIRA boards and workflows to ensure clear prioritization, transparency, and execution discipline
- Drive accountability for task completion and ensure work is progressing in alignment with committed timelines
- Report on velocity and capacity metrics to set clear expectations and inform resource adjustments
- Monitor, analyze, and respond to JIRA dashboards and metric reporting related to PDI departmental performance (e.g., cycle time, throughput, backlog health, SLA adherence)
- Proactively identify trends, surface risks, and drive data-informed actions to improve execution and operational outcomes
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes, reduce cycle times, and eliminate redundant or manual work
- Support continuous improvement by incorporating lessons learned into future workflows and planning
- Oversee the intake, tracking, and execution of product configurations, changes, and deactivations across systems (e.g., Salesforce, NetSuite) via JIRA intake
- Ensure all product setup activities are complete, accurate, and aligned with operational and reporting requirements, and advance epics and tasks through completion as required
- Act as a central point of coordination across functions, ensuring stakeholders are informed, aligned, and engaged
- Communicate timelines, impacts, and dependencies clearly, particularly where changes affect fulfillment, pricing, or customer experience
- Partner with peer managers to align priorities and resource allocation across concurrent initiatives
Our take
Since launching as Wireless Generation in the year 2000, before rebranding in 2012 after News Corp acquired the company, Amplify has grown into one of the leading providers of K-12 curricula, assessment and supplemental programs for ELA (English Language Arts), Math and Science.
The EdTech market has been growing rapidly for the last decade and more, and its value is expected to surpass 230 billion by 2030. This growth means that the company has plenty of competition from the likes of Khan Academy and Kaplan Test, but the fact that Amplify is used by around 10 million students puts it in a very strong position.
After a major growth funding round in 2021, Amplify acquired digital math tools developer Desmos. This is in keeping with its commitment to strategically acquire high-performing education companies in order to expand its own tech and product offerings.
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Insights
23% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$215m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2021
$0.1m
GRANT
Total funding: $263.3m
Company benefits
- Full benefits: Our health insurance options include health, dental, and vision coverage for spouses, domestic partners, and children—effective on your date of hire. We make a generous contribution to all employee HSA plans, which can be used to cover eligible health expenses. We offer unlimited paid time off, a 401(k) plan with an employer match, long- and short-term disability, and employer-sponsored employee life insurance. We offer paid parental leave, backup childcare and backup eldercare. On top of all that, we also provide our full-time employees with a robust voluntary benefits program that includes coverage options for everyone in the family, including pets.
- Opportunities for inspiration: Amplify believes in the importance of supporting charitable nonprofits in the communities where we live and work. We encourage employees to support organizations that promote the welfare of children and families in the areas of education, health, and social services. One way for employees to give back is through our Volunteer Time Off program, which allows employees to take 16 hours each year to contribute to an eligible charitable or nonprofit organization.
- Tuition reimbursement: Full-time employees who are enrolled in an accredited college or university course related to their areas of work are eligible to receive tuition reimbursement.
Company HQ
Dumbo, NY
Leadership
Larry Berger
(Co-Founder & CEO)Co-founded Wireless Generation in 2000 and was CEO until News Corp bought the company in 2010, becoming President and then CEO of Amplify post-acquisition. Serves on the boards of Touch Press, the Academy of American Poets, Lapham’s Quarterly, the Institute for Sustained Attention, and the Southern Education Foundation.
Catherine Mackay
(COO & President)Catherine joined Amplify in 2014 as a Consultant of Amplify Learning. She quickly moved into the role of GM and SVP of Middle School ELA, then CEO of Amp,ify New Curriculum before becoming COO in 2018. Prior to Amplify, she spent 8 years at Tablet Hotels (acquired by Michelin) as the Head of Business Development and Director of the Operating Board.
LaShon Ormond
(CIO)LaShon joined Amplify in 2011 as a Project Manager. While at the company, she's held a number of roles and moved into the role of Chief Impact Officer in 2023.
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