A Day In The Life Of A Senior Content Program Manager At An Edtech Company
A senior content program manager's day is "not a typical day," varying by time of year and day of the week, with mornings dedicated to "asynchronous work" like data analysis and afternoons filled with meetings across various teams—including "math team meeting" or "ELA team meeting"—to coordinate complex initiatives involving content development, engineering, marketing, and community support; the organization's "no Meeting Wednesdays" are highly valued for focused work.
Project Management, Data Analysis, Communication, Teamwork, Problem-Solving
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Sasha Ban
Senior Content Program Manager
Leading Edtech Company
Barnard College
UCLA MBA
Biology & Related Sciences
Education, Technology
Operations and Project Management
Greek Life Member, Student Athlete
Video Highlights
1. The work of a Senior Content Program Manager is highly varied and depends on the time of year, day of the week, and time zone differences.
2. A significant portion of the work involves coordinating complex initiatives across multiple teams, including content development, engineering, marketing, and community support.
3. The role necessitates both asynchronous work (e.g., updating procedures, data analysis, email) and synchronous work (meetings with sub-teams and cross-functional teams to maintain relationships and share updates).
Transcript
What does a day in the life of a senior content program manager look like?
That's a great question. There really isn't a typical day, and it also depends on the time of year and day of the week.
Typically, because I live on the East Coast and work for a West Coast-based company, my mornings are usually pretty quiet. Most of my meetings don't start until noon East Coast time, just because of the West Coast folks on our team.
So, I try to have my mornings devoted to asynchronous work. That could be anything from updating a team procedure to catching up on emails, to running some kind of data analysis. It's different types of head-down work.
My afternoons are usually more meeting-heavy. A lot of the work I do to develop and maintain relationships within and across teams requires face time. I'll oftentimes be in various meetings of sub-teams within our team.
I might be at our math team meeting or our ELA team meeting, basically to hear what's going on with them and to share any updates from my end to the team. I also join a lot of cross-functional meetings.
This is to both hear what's going on and to share what's going on from our team. Coordinating complex initiatives that involve content development, engineering, marketing, and community support has a lot of different moving parts. A lot of stuff needs to be coordinated.
We also have "No Meeting Wednesdays" in the organization I work in, which I really love. Those are days we try to really not have meetings. Our Wednesdays can really be used for more focused head-down time.
So I try to preserve that time as well so I can get a lot of that head-down work done.