Senior State Standards Specialist - Humanities

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.

We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, PhD Science, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.

• Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

• PhD Science is a hands-on K-5 Science program that sparks curiosity as students build enduring knowledge of how the scientific world works.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.

Where We’re Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Sr Manager State Adoptions, the Senior State Standards Specialist will support and collaborate on preparing Great Minds curriculum standards alignments and ensuring the accuracy of alignments to meet early years (K-4) through middle years (6-8) RFP and state instructional materials adoption requirements. These pivotal roles will function as lead product experts and collaborators within the Proposals team, supporting Sales with product area questions, and contributing subject matter expertise to district RFPs and state instructional materials adoption submissions. These highly skilled positions will analyze products using a standards alignment lens, leading projects to update and improve standards alignments for product submission, as well as conduct quality assurance reviews of custom curriculum alignments within the scope of K-12 RFP and state submissions. This role will be a key conduit of product knowledge within the Proposals team and for the Sales and Product teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess RFP and State Adoption submissions for Great Minds products providing content area support and knowledge.

• Create quality documentation that shows how Great Minds curriculum aligns against state and national standards and exam rubrics for public distribution in RFP responses and state proposal submissions.

• Collaborate with internal RFP and state submission review teams, including Sales and Product, to make high-level recommendations for additional content coverage, ensuring that the alignment achieves optimal standards coverage.

• Review existing curriculum alignments  to confirm that documented coverage reflects the most current version of the standards.

• Summarizing the alignment data and highlighting key findings to support marketing efforts, support policy documentation, and contribute to research studies as needed.

• Develop crosswalks and complete rubrics related to RFPs to confirm that Great Minds products meet RFP and state submission requirements.

• Support Proposals team in reviewing product criteria in RFPs and state adoption documentation and assessing Great Minds product alignment.

• Evaluate and analyze state standards and requirements to meet Sales and RFP opportunities for Great Minds products.

• Participate in weekly or biweekly state adoption meetings as the Proposal team’s content representative.

  • Establish deep knowledge of Great Minds’ state adoption process and develop keen understanding of the go-to leads for each team, who to contact for questions, etc.

  • Partner with Content and Product teams to maintain and verify state alignment studies and ensure all state standards repositories are up-to-date.

  • Attend state DOE and large K-12 district RFP publisher informational meetings as necessary to support requirements gathering for district RFPs and state adoptions.

• Identify scope work needed for filling gaps in current standard alignments to inform Go/No-Go decisions for district RFP and state adoption submissions.

• Work cross-functionally between Proposals team and Content/Product teams to ensure latest product data and alignments are fully documented.

• Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Three or more (3+) years of instructional design or curriculum development experience in the K-12 education market with particular expertise in evaluating High Quality Instructional Materials (HQIM) curriculum.

• Strong knowledge in instruction and curriculum development.

• Experience doing curriculum alignment work in K-12 or higher education.

• Experience mapping state standards to curriculum.

• Strong familiarity with state and national curriculum standards.

• Strong knowledge of standards, alignment, curriculum mapping, and standards language.

• Familiarity with K-12 district RFPs and state instructional materials adoptions.

• Able to analyze and review content with strong attention to detail.

• Manage Loopio product libraries to support up-to-date product information for K-12 district RFP submissions.

• Able to prioritize workload and meet critical milestones/deadlines on a tight schedule.

• Able to work independently and collaborate virtually with all team members and staff across the organization.

• Able to carry out detailed written and/or verbal instructions.

• Demonstrated excellent communication skills, including verbal, written, and interpersonal.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), SharePoint, Smartsheet, and Google Workspace.

Ideal Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of how Great Minds products align to market demand.

• Ability to work on cross-functional teams with a collaborative approach, equally comfortable discussing RFP and state submission proposal requirements with proposal writers, content development with Sales and Product stakeholders, and copy and positioning with product marketers.

• Strong organizational habits to ensure successful goal achievement and timely contributions to decision making

• Outstanding capacity to handle precise and detail-oriented work

• Ability to problem solve to create high-quality product submissions by established deadlines 

• Proficiency with technology and comfortable learning new applications.

• Proficiency at both working independently and collaborating as part of a team.

• Experience with Loopio or other RFP automation software and maintaining RFP language repositories.

Required Education

Bachelor’s degree with focus in Education, Curriculum Design, or Instruction required; Master’s degree preferred.

Travel

Ability to travel 5-10% as needed for team development, conferences, etc.

Status

Full-time

Location

Remote

The base salary range for this position is $81,000-$89,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations.. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.

A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.

New employees will be required to successfully complete a background check and provide declaration of COVID-19 vaccination status. We do not require COVID-19 vaccination as a condition of employment; however, your vaccination status could impact your ability to perform this role at certain client sites.

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Great Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. Our policy reflects and affirms the organization’s commitment to the principles of fair employment and the elimination of all discriminatory practices.

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