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Join McGraw Hill as a Senior Product Manager in Assessment, where you'll shape transformative educational experiences through innovative assessment products. Drive strategy and execution while enhancing partnerships to improve educational outcomes for learners and educators.

Responsibilities: Lead the strategy and development of assessment products, manage partnerships, and ensure ongoing optimization against key performance indicators, while advocating for user needs and business objectives.

Skills: Strong product management expertise, excellent communication skills, deep understanding of K-12 assessment and data-driven instruction, and ability to drive product differentiation.

Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree required, advanced degrees preferred, with 7+ years of product management experience and a background in education technology and assessment.

Location: Remote position open to candidates authorized to work in the United States, with no specified need for travel.

Compensation: $114000 - $160000 / Annually

Overview

Build the Future

At McGraw Hill, we are dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. Our focus is on creating seamless, impactful products that truly benefit our users while supporting growth and collaboration across teams. We foster a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and a balance between career growth and personal well-being.

McGraw Hill conducts business through four operating segments: K-12, Higher Education, Global Professional, and International.

How can you make an impact?

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a Senior Product Manager, Assessment who will focus on concepting, designing, and delivering new and enhanced assessment offerings across multiple product portfolios. The Senior Product Manager will collaborate with Assessment Product leadership to support the development of an overall assessment product vision, strategy, and roadmap, and lead its execution. The Senior Product Manager must have deep customer empathy and that rare ability to champion the voice of the customer and advocate for the interests of the business at the same time. 

The Senior Product Manager will be accountable for articulating and executing a cross-discipline, cross-segment Assessment strategy for School with a primary focus on third-party partnerships.  This includes understanding the current state across core, intervention and supplemental programs and markets, and then defining short and long term plans to:

• Develop a cross-program strategy for third-party assessment partnerships and data integration opportunities to make assessment a compelling differentiator in our programs, and define new market opportunities in the assessment and analytics space.
• Lead discovery and solutioning around third-party assessment partnerships with Academic Design, Data Science, Technical Product Management, UX, and Engineering against strategic roadmap priorities to improve learning outcomes, personalize student experiences, and support teacher effectiveness.
• Oversee launch and ongoing optimization of assessment partnerships against defined key performance indicators
• Drive additional assessment and instrumentation needs across core, intervention, and supplemental programs in close collaboration with portfolio leads and Data Science teams. 
• Use assessment to inspire efficacious action for students, classrooms, and schools.

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for both the development and realization of product strategy through cross-functional leadership across Product Management, User Experience, Academic Design, Data Science, Product Marketing, and Engineering. The Product Manager understands the market and competitive landscape and is able to design and deliver assessment product solutions that deliver measurable business results including, but not limited to: revenue growth, usage growth, customer acquisition and retention. The role requires deep knowledge of assessment and proven experience in this field. 

You will operate in an environment that requires excellent problem-solving skills and exceptional team collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the development of a comprehensive strategy for new assessment product and feature development, with a focus on external partnerships and integration to augment our capacity and increase our competitive differentiation: define market needs and opportunities, and lead cross-functional concepting and solutioning.
• Manage ongoing partner relationships to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction, and identify opportunities to enhance customer value proposition over time
• Define and drive new assessment product features by combining market & customer knowledge alongside internal capabilities and constraints. Perpetually strive for product differentiation that resonates with the market
• Continuously monitor new product performance, the competitive environment, and market changes to increase product effectiveness, usage, and profitability.
• Support the strategy and implementation of AI features and products, including content/feature recommendations, personalized experiences, as well as, collaborate with data science teams to develop and refine AI models that enhance platform experiences and user outcomes.
• Partner with business, marketing, and other stakeholders on all aspects of the Go to Market Plan for new features, including but not limited to data capture needed, timeline of release to customers, training, and communication to internal and external customers.
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What you bring:

• Bachelor's Degree required, advanced degree (MA or Doctorate) is preferred.
• Ability to create, grow, and manage P&L responsibility.
• 7+ years of product management or equivalent leadership role.
• Background and experience in K-12 assessment, data-driven instruction and/or personalized learning required; Edtech experience preferred
• Proven experience generating and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to drive product decisions.

Strategy: You can support the articulation of a vision for the future, while meeting the needs of the classroom of today. You actively engage with customers. You understand the market and competitive landscape and know how to deliver measurable business results·      

Leadership Qualities: You exhibit exceptional communication and leadership skills. You are skilled at bringing internal and external stakeholders along in embracing and realizing a product vision, with a proven ability to lead strong cross-functional teams; to inspire, influence and negotiate at all levels of an organization.

Assessment Domain Expertise: You have the ability to drive/evolve assessment from a product feature to differentiated capabilities and new product offerings, whether that be in core curriculum, or as we begin to explore curriculum agnostic and other supplemental opportunities.  

Product Management Excellence: You influence cross-functional teams to conceptualize, create, and deliver market winning learning experiences that delight customers. You leverage McGraw Hill’s vast technology ecosystem to conceive of and deliver innovative solutions in support of your product strategy and galvanize internal collaborators to deliver continual customer value. You oversee multi-year roadmaps through all stages of the product development cycle. 

Business and Financial Acumen: You uphold business objectives. You support the development of business cases that articulate emerging market value, timelines, and financials to obtain funding approvals. You support the management of overall financial and new product performance, including revenue, profit, and loss through the product lifecycle—from strategic planning to market launch to product retirement. 

Why work for us?

The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

The pay range for this position is between $114,000-$160,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.

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