Sr. Product Manager, Assessment

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 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. 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 supporting the articulation and execution of a cross-discipline, cross-segment assessment and data 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:

• Develop a cross-program strategy for third-party assessment partnerships, and data integration opportunities to make assessment and reporting a compelling differentiator in our programs, and define new market opportunities.
• 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.
• Lead launch and ongoing optimization of assessment partnerships against defined key performance indicators, with a focus on both customer value and quality technical delivery.
• 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.
• 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 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.

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

• 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, .
• Lead day-to-day partner interactions to ensure ongoing customer satisfaction, and identify opportunities to enhance customer value proposition over time
• 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
• Oversee the delivery of new assessment integrations through milestone planning, feature articulation, user story development, and day-to-day engineering team management.

• Continuously monitor new product performance, the competitive environment, and marke t changes to increase product effectiveness, usage, and profitability.
• 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.

• 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.

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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. 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.
• Delivery-Focused : 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. You define integration requirements-API specs, data flows, UX expectations-and make them accessible to the people who need them.
• 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.

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 here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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