Overview

How Can You Make an Impact?

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a Senior Director, Product Management – Professional Learning to build and lead our Professional Learning product business across multiple product portfolios. As McGraw Hill expands into ongoing, curriculum-based professional learning, this leader will own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap; deliver the approved Professional Learning business case; and drive the integration of TeachFX, an AI-powered classroom coaching platform, into the McGraw Hill ecosystem. The Senior Director 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 Director will be accountable for leading concept development, prioritization, and market delivery for innovative Professional Learning products with cross-product utility for McGraw Hill School. This includes understanding the current state across core, intervention and supplemental programs and markets, and then defining short- and long-term plans to:

• Work across portfolios to identify and prioritize emerging user needs and new market opportunities.
• Lead discovery and solutioning around new Professional Learning concepts with Technical Product Management, UX, and Engineering against strategic roadmap priorities to improve learning outcomes, personalize student experiences, and support teacher effectiveness.
• Oversee delivery, launch, and ongoing optimization of new concepts against defined key performance indicators.
• Deliver the Professional Learning business case, including the in-person and virtual service portfolio, catalog, and consultant network, against approved milestones, budget, and financial targets.
• Drive the integration of TeachFX into the McGraw Hill ecosystem, from standalone offer to curriculum-integrated instructional intelligence.

The Senior Director will be responsible for the development and realization of product strategy through cross-functional leadership across enterprise teams focused on Professional Learning, engaging Product Management, User Experience, Academic Design, Data Science, Product Marketing, and Engineering. The Senior Director will build and lead the Professional Learning product team, including Product Managers for Professional Learning and Instructional Coaching as the business expands. The Senior Director understands the market and competitive landscape and can design and deliver innovative 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 the Professional Learning market and common classroom practices, with proven expertise in this field.

This role 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

• Own the Professional Learning business case: Lead product delivery of the Phase 1 K-12 Literacy offering, including the PL catalog and marketing collateral, Initial Institute, Expertise Workshops, Building Capacity Services, and the consultant (National Faculty) network. Manage to milestones, budget, and KPIs such as revenue, contribution margin, and cost of delivery, and prepare for Phase 2 expansion to additional portfolios.
• Drive TeachFX integration: Lead the cross-functional effort with Product Management, Technical Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and Marketing to bring TeachFX into the McGraw Hill ecosystem. This includes the standalone offer, curriculum integration with McGraw Hill Literacy and subsequent extension to math and other core content, bundling with curriculum and services, and leadership reporting.
• Set the vision and roadmap: Define the Professional Learning product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap, including Phase 2 expansion to additional portfolios, curriculum-agnostic instructional strategy support, and continuing education and higher education opportunities.
• Lead discovery and concepting: Identify new Professional Learning opportunities through customer, market, and stakeholder research; develop, prioritize, and validate concepts; and lead them to MVP delivery.
• Design with learning science: Ensure offerings integrate McGraw Hill Teacher Competencies and adult learning theory, and pursue external validation, such as approved provider status on the Rivet Education Professional Learning Partner Guide.
• Build investment cases: Develop and own business cases, pricing and packaging inputs, and financial models as needed to align new investment with potential market capture.
• Monitor and optimize: Continuously monitor product performance, the competitive environment (such as HMH, Savvas, Amplify, Great Minds, and Scholastic), and market changes to increase product effectiveness, usage, and profitability.
• Lead AI and personalization: Lead the strategy and implementation of AI-enabled professional learning, including personalized pathways, content and feature recommendations, and classroom-evidence-based coaching, collaborating with data science teams to refine AI models that enhance user outcomes.
• Go to market: Partner with business, marketing (including the Director of Marketing, Professional Development), sales, and curriculum specialists on go-to-market plans for new offerings, including data capture needed, release timeline, training, and communication to internal and external customers.
• Lead people: Hire, train, develop, and motivate a team; set annual goals and objectives, conduct timely performance evaluations, and monitor and control team expenses.
• Represent McGraw Hill in public forums and with customers, districts, and professional learning organizations.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MA or Doctorate) preferred.
• Ability to create, grow, and manage P&L responsibility, including a new or services-based line of business.
• 10+ years of product management or equivalent leadership experience, including experience building and leading teams.
• Background and experience in K-12 professional learning, curriculum-based professional learning, instructional coaching, or teacher development required; AI product experience and edtech experience preferred.
• Proven experience generating and using qualitative and quantitative data to drive product decisions.
• Strategy: You articulate of a vision for the future while meeting the needs of today’s classroom. You actively engage with customers, understand the market and competitive landscape, and know how to deliver measurable business results.
• Leadership qualities: You exhibit exceptional communication and leadership skills, can hire and develop strong teams, and can bring internal and external stakeholders along in realizing a product vision, with a proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and to inspire, influence, and negotiate at all levels of an organization.
• Instructional and Professional Learning expertise: You have deep experience developing and launching professional learning solutions that evolve teachers’ pedagogical practices and drive student outcomes, and you understand services-based models such as delivery, faculty or consultant networks, and pricing.
• Integration and partnership experience: You have experience integrating an acquired or partner product into a larger platform or portfolio, aligning product, technology, and go-to-market teams.
• Product management excellence: You influence cross-functional teams to conceptualize, create, and deliver market-winning learning experiences that delight customers, leverage McGraw Hill’s technology ecosystem, and oversee multi-year roadmaps through all stages of the product development cycle.
• Business and financial acumen: You uphold business objectives, build business cases that articulate market value, timelines, and financials to obtain funding approvals, and manage revenue, profit, and loss through the product lifecycle, from strategic planning to market launch to product retirement.