Cengage Group Careers, Benefits, Review

Cengage Group has a critical role to play in providing quality, inclusive learning materials that empower progress and combat ignorance. As one of the largest education companies in the world, and a global employer, we are taking action to advance inclusion and diversity efforts in our workplaces, communities and the education experiences we provide to learners and educators. We do this because it’s the right thing to do: for our customers, our employees and our business.

Our ultimate goal is to make inclusion and diversity a sustainable, core part of the Cengage Group culture. We recognize the immense responsibility we have to develop quality learning products and services that are inclusive of all identities, experiences and other forms of difference. Here are a few ways we are bringing this to life:  

Our Employees: We recognize the importance of trust and respect amongst employees and ensuring that individuals at all levels of the organization feel comfortable being their authentic selves at work, including voicing their ideas and opinions. We strive to achieve inclusivity at Cengage Group through programs and initiatives that create opportunity for learning, listening and involvement. These include unconscious bias training, inclusive leadership and professional development workshops, speakers from diverse backgrounds, an annual engagement survey, weekly townhalls with the CEO, peer recognition programs and employee resource groups (ERGs). Our robust and inclusive policies and benefits have been recognized by organizations like the Human Rights Campaign.

To enable continuous improvement and sustained success, we have created an I&D Governance Board which is made up of functional leaders and Employee Resource Group representatives who oversee our I&D efforts and measure their impact and success over time. The Governance Board also helps ensure the priorities, efforts and values of the I&D program are fully ingrained into the fabric of how Cengage Group teams work internally, and how our customers experience our products and services externally.

Our Educators and Students: We do more than simply acknowledge diversity—we actively strive for inclusivity in content through the solicitation, promotion, recruitment, valuation and incorporation of different views and experiences. Our efforts center on recognizing and addressing implicit bias in our products, being intentional in our learning design and content creation, and ensuring our content reflects diverse sources of scholarship, research and authorship.

Our Business: Cengage Group works closely with a range of partners to ensure we foster diversity among our employees, across our products and in our businesses. Partnerships also enable talent pipelines to attract, recruit and provide training and apprenticeship opportunities for people from marginalized backgrounds. Our I&D Advisory Council, made up of thought-leaders from across the organization who represent a diversity of our business markets, customers and employees, ensures our I&D efforts are integrated into our company’s long-term strategic roadmap and priorities.

We are proud of our deep heritage, which dates back to the early 1900s. During the last one hundred years, Cengage Group has evolved into one of the largest education technology companies in the world. Today, we provide quality digital products and services to millions of students, equipping them with skills and competencies needed to advance their careers and improve their lives.

No matter how, where, when or why someone wants to learn, our portfolio of education businesses supports all students, from middle school through graduate school and skills education, with quality content and technology. Collectively, our three business units – Cengage Academic, Cengage Work and Cengage Select – help millions of students each year in more than 125 countries achieve their education and career goals and lead choice-filled lives.

Until you can live the Cengage Group employee experience yourself, it is hard to understand what makes this organization so special. For one, we are bonded by our shared purpose – to help millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education. Our culture is our differentiator – we are radically transparent. We value engagement, empowerment, diversity and discovery. We’re candid because we see problems as opportunities to improve. 

Our culture and shared mission are encapsulated in our Credo – our statement of purpose – and our Ethos, which describes how we do what we do. They ground and unite us as we continue to grow.  

Our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) are employee-created and employee-led internal communities, providing personal connections and affiliation to promote diversity, openness, understanding, inclusivity and belonging. We currently have seven active ERGs: Mosaic (an ERG for BIPOC employees), PRIDE, Women in Technology, GREEN, Mental Health Alliance, Disability and Chronic Illness Coalition, and Parents and Caregivers. 

Mosaic: Mosaic’s mission is to empower Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) employed at Cengage Group and ensure recruitment and retention practices reflect the diversity of our industry and the customers we serve. Mosaic members have led all-company discussions around the actions we can take as a company and as a community to confront and mitigate systemic racism. 

PRIDE: Our PRIDE ERG promotes an inclusive culture that empowers and supports LGBTQIA employees and allies of all backgrounds. It offers social and networking opportunities for our members and promotes activities that raise awareness about the LGBTQIA community and highlight the needs of our LGBTQIA learners.

Women in Technology (WiT): The goal of our WiT ERG is to promote a culture that supports and empowers women and people of gender minorities at Cengage Group. Through shared practical insights, networking opportunities and mentoring, WiT members are inspired to learn and grow to achieve their professional goals with confidence. 

GREEN: The mission of the GREEN ERG is to serve as a resource to employees that enables them to be better, more sustainable citizens, while also initiating quantifiable change within Cengage Group as a whole that positively impacts the environment. 

Mental Health Alliance: The MHA ERG is dedicated to supporting employee education and growth around mental health topics in service of eliminating the stigma that still exists within our culture at large. By increasing our collective awareness around issues of mental health, MHA bolsters the company’s overall commitment to diversity and inclusion both internally and within the products we create. 

Disability and Chronic Illness Coalition (DCIC): The DCIC is dedicated to building a welcoming community and providing support for those with disabilities and chronic illnesses. The group shares information with one another, helps find resources and figure out logistics when an employee or someone they care about has a new or evolving condition, and educates the wider Cengage community on allyship. 

Parents and Caregivers: The goal of our Parents and Caregivers ERG is to provide resources and support to professionals who 'wear multiple hats' while balancing a career.

ERGS in Action: Our ERGs offer a variety of on-going programs, including Mosaic Match which provides networking opportunities for BIPOC Cengage Group employees. They also lead events and community activities throughout the year – for example, this video series where Mosaic members shared their personal stories around “What does Juneteenth mean to you?”  

Cengage Group’s portfolio of businesses supports student choice by providing a range of pathways that help learners achieve their goals and lead a choice-filled life.

Cengage Academic provides education content and technology to support the learning goals of more than 12M digital learners, from middle school to graduate school, at more than 20,000 institutions globally. Our trusted content, reliable platforms, unique Cengage Unlimited subscription, and award-winning customer support teams make it easy for instructors to choose Cengage year-after-year.

Cengage Work provides flexible, affordable online courses and programs to help adults rapidly gain the skills needed to be job ready. Our programs have already helped more than 3.5M people develop new skills, and this year more than 250,000 people will access Cengage Work products and services to gain employable skills, complete required training or pursue a new skillset in high demand fields such as allied health and cybersecurity.

Cengage Select offers globally relevant education content and resources in attractive markets across more than 120 countries. Our well-known brands include Gale (serving more than 30M learners annually who access digital reference materials through libraries around the world), Milady (the 100-year-old market leader in beauty school course materials), National Geographic Learning – English Language Teaching (serving more than 65M students and 55,000 institutions, globally), and Nelson (known for its award-winning Primary Literacy series, serves more than 50M K-12 students in Australia, US, Canada and the UK).

Learn more about our business units here: https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/what-we-do/

Benefits

At Cengage Group, we are accountable to and for each other. Part of that is recognizing the commitment, creativity and skills of our employees by offering a comprehensive benefits plan and program. We care about your wellness, career, family and our communities. As a regular employee scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week, you become eligible for most benefits on your date of hire.

We offer: 

• 12 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings account with employer contributions and flexible spending accounts
• Hospital Indemnity Plan
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent life insurance
• Individual and Family AD&D
• Legal Expense Insurance
• 401(k) savings plan
• Commuter Benefits
• Paid vacations, holidays and sick days
• Tuition Assistance Program 
• Scholarship Program
• Classroom-based and online training resources
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Backup Care Program
• Adoption Assistance
• Rethink – a program for parents with children that have learning, social, developmental or behavioral challenges.
• 24-Hour Travel Assistance
• Identity Theft Restoration & Card Monitoring
• Matching Gifts Program
• Volunteer Days to give back to your community

Check out our current benefits here.