Editorial Developer
Category Details
Primary Focus: Guides authors through the content plan, performing editing to ensure quality and alignment with pedagogical and market goals. This role connects author creativity with educational value and supports delivery timelines and collaboration.
Content Type: All components, encompassing chapter, module, or lesson text; images; videos and animations; interactive learning tools; assessments; and supplemental resources.
Key Strengths: Author management, editorial judgment, domain expertise, content shaping, proficiency with AI tools, accessibility, and proactive problem solving for build-ready content.
Responsibilities
Participate in product planning and represent content development needs; partner with CPMs to source and onboard royalty authors.
Manage author communications, schedules, and deliverables; guide authors in creating effective, pedagogically sound content.
Analyze author submissions to refine onboarding and editorial support; resolve author issues and elevate as needed.
Ensure content aligns with strategy and learning design; coordinate reviews, feedback loops, and apply market feedback for continuous improvement.
Evaluate and edit author submissions, maintain workflow adherence, track progress, and communicate risks to stakeholders.
Adhere to quality standards, consult with accessibility teams, and leverage templates, authoring tools, and AI workflows for efficiency.
Tools Used: Product plan documents, editorial templates, authoring guidelines, style guides, Smartsheet schedules, budgets, and collaborative tools (including AI workflows). Authoring tools include Word, PDF, and assessment templates. The goal is a fully integrated, platform-enabled authoring system with embedded AI.
Workflow Role: Pre‑development through build, ranging from securing and shaping authored content to partnering as needed with producers to resolve issues in build.
Pedagogical Involvement: Ranges from moderate to heavy (substantive developmental and line editing) to support learning goals through all elements of the content plan.
Key Collaborators: Content Strategy & Delivery Manager, Authors, CPMs, APMs, Learning Designers, other Editorial Developers, Developmental Editors, Content Developers, Project Management, Producers, Vendor Partners.
Success Measures: Clear, cohesive, pedagogically sound, and buildable courseware content aligned to product plan goals, author experience & satisfaction, adherence to scope, timeliness and budget, and stakeholder collaboration feedback.
Job
Content Creation
Job Family
LEARNING_&_CONTENT_DEVELOPMENT
Organization
Higher Education
Schedule
FULL_TIME
Workplace Type
Remote
Req ID
23289
Equal Opportunity Employer
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Accommodations
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Specialist, Editorial Developer
Pearson · Indiana, PA, USA · Remote ·
- Pay:
- 60.000 - 80.000
- Job type:
- Full Time
About Pearson
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always reexamining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology—and each other to surpass these boundaries—we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
Pearson’s Online & Blended Learning K-12 group provides high-quality, highly accountable online education solutions to schools, school districts and students in grades K-12. The group, formerly known as Connections Education, is based in Columbia, Maryland and has been named a “Top Workplace” by the Baltimore Sun for three consecutive years and a “Best Place to Work” by Baltimore magazine. Recognized for its outstanding curriculum, high-quality teachers and leadership, Pearson Online & Blended Learning is committed to expanding quality education through technology, and helping students achieve both academic and personal success.
Pearson Online & Blended Learning is focused on providing a flexible work environment to its employees, including the ability to work from home on a regular basis in most positions. We believe that flexibility in work/life balance is a critical part of our culture and employee satisfaction, and we are proud to provide to our employees the ability to work from anywhere, anytime. In exchange, we require that employees have the appropriate means to work remotely, including adherence to our work at home policies regarding home office setup, including but not limited to privacy of records, technology standards, equipment standards and expectations.
The following equipment will be provided to you by the company as a full-time employee:
- Laptop and phone
- Headset
The following equipment will need to be provided by you, as the employee, when working from home:
- 2nd monitor (required)
- Mouse (required)
- Keyboard (required)