Sr. Product Manager, Assessment

Overview<br><br><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Build the Future</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">McGraw Hill conducts business through four operating segments: K-12, Higher Education, Global Professional, and International.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">How Can You Make an Impact?</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"><br></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a<strong> Senior Product Manager, Assessment </strong>who will focus on defining strategy and leading integration of third-party assessment and student data solutions, with the goal of supporting teachers in personalizing learning in their classrooms. The Senior Product Manager will collaborate with Assessment Product leadership to support the development of an overall assessment integration vision, strategy, and roadmap, and lead its execution. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The Senior Product Manager must have deep customer empathy and that rare ability <span style="background: white;">to champion the voice of the customer and advocate for the interests of the business at the same time.  </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The Senior Product Manager will be accountable for supporting the articulation and execution of a cross-discipline, cross-segment assessment and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">data</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> strategy for School, with a specific focus on third-party assessment and data integrations to strengthen our holistic student data story. This includes understanding the current state across core, intervention and supplemental programs and markets, and then defining short and long term plans to:</span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Develop a cross-program strategy for third-party assessment partnerships, and data integration opportunities to </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">make assessment and reporting a compelling differentiator in our programs, and define new market opportunities.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Lead discovery and solutioning around assessment data integration 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.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Lead launch and ongoing optimization of assessment partnerships against defined key performance indicators, with a focus on both customer value and quality technical delivery.</span></li><li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Drive additional assessment, instrumentation, and student performance data visualization needs across core, intervention, and supplemental programs in close collaboration with Assessment Product Management peers, portfolio leads, and Data Science teams.  </span></li><li style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Use assessment to inspire efficacious action for students, classrooms, and schools.</span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 2.4pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">The Senior Product Manager</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;"> 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 integrated 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, digital assessment delivery technology, and proven experience managing delivery of complex technical solutions with Agile engineering teams.  </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">You will operate in an environment that requires excellent problem-solving skills and exceptional team collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">What You’ll Do</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-right: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Support the development of a comprehensive strategy for new assessment and reporting product and feature development, with a focus on external partnerships and data integration to augment our capacity and increase our competitive differentiation: define market needs and opportunities, lead cross-functional concepting and solutioning, and translate strategy to a delivery plan, . </span></li><li style="margin-right: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Lead day-to-day partner interactions to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction, and identify opportunities to enhance customer value proposition over time </span></li><li style="margin-right: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Define and drive new assessment and reporting product features in support of third-party assessment data by combining market & customer knowledge alongside internal capabilities and constraints. Perpetually strive for product differentiation that resonates with the market</span></li><li style="margin-right: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Oversee the delivery of new assessment integrations through milestone planning, feature articulation, user story development, and day-to-day engineering team management. </span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="color: black; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Continuously monitor new product performance, the competitive environment, and marke t changes to increase product effectiveness, usage, and profitability. </span></li><li style="color: black; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: windowtext;">Partner with portfolio leadership, marketing, and other stakeholders on all aspects of the Go to Market Plan for new partnerships, including but not limited to messaging definition, training, and communication to internal and external customers.</span></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin-right: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Serve as primary business product stakeholder for Assess platform, partnering with Technical Product Management to define and prioritize platform features based on business value and user impact, to drive assessment quality and overall utilization. </span></li></ul><ul style="margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Represent MH in public fora</span></li></ul><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">What You Bring:</span></strong></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Bachelor's Degree required, advanced degree (MA or Doctorate) is preferred.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Ability to create, grow, and manage P&L responsibility.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">7+ years of product management or equivalent leadership role.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Background and experience in K-12 assessment, data-driven instruction and/or personalized learning required; Edtech experience preferred </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Proven experience generating and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to drive product decisions.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Strategy</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">: 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·       </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Leadership Qualities</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">.  You exhibit exceptional communication and leadership skills<strong>.</strong>  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.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Assessment Domain Expertise: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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.   </span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Product Management Excellence: </span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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.  You translate high-level goals into clear deliverables. You maintain the backlog, prioritize what matters, and make scope tradeoffs when reality doesn't match the plan.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Delivery-Focused</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">: You align on specs, data requirements, and timelines—and you flag misalignments early so there's time to fix them. You partner with Program Managers and Engineering Leads to keep your team healthy and delivery on track. You surface dependencies, identify risks, and help clear obstacles.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #424242;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">You define integration requirements—API specs, data flows, UX expectations—and make them accessible to the people who need them.</span></li><li style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Business and Financial Acumen</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">: You uphold business objectives<strong>.</strong>  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.  </span></li></ul><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Why Work For Us?</span></strong></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered. Click <a href="https://mheducation.icims.com/icims2/servlet/icims2?module=AppInert&action=download&id=261211&hashed=1059640477">here</a> to learn more about our benefit offerings.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">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.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> </p> 50826

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