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Macmillan Learning is seeking a Product Manager for various academic courses, responsible for the vision, strategy, and execution of educational products to enhance student success across disciplines.

Responsibilities: Lead course ideation and development, ensuring alignment with educator needs; analyze market trends; manage product backlog and cross-functional collaboration to deliver high-quality educational experiences.

Skills: 3+ years in product management, strong communication, analytical skills, ability to influence without direct control, and experience in EdTech or education-related fields.

Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree and experience in product management or business analyst roles; entrepreneurial mindset and collaborative skills are preferred.

Location: United States

Compensation: $89000 - $130000 / Annually

At Macmillan Learning, we're committed to driving innovation that transforms education. We seek team members who thrive on pushing boundaries, envisioning future possibilities, and building solutions that make a lasting impact. Whether you're a Pioneer shaping bold new ideas, a Builder turning possibilities into reality, or a Stabilizer optimizing for success, you'll play a vital role in advancing our mission. If you're excited by the prospect of testing new technologies, implementing transformative strategies, and thriving in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we’d love to hear from you!

We are hiring for multiple Product Manager, Course positions across various academic disciplines. Please apply if you have expertise in any of the following areas: Biology, Psychology, Chemistry, English, History, High School, and more. You will be considered for the role most aligned with your background.

The Course Product Manager owns the vision, strategy, and execution of a portfolio of higher education course areas, ensuring that each course offering meets the needs of instructors and students and lead to measurable impact on student success. This role treats the course as the product, driving innovations in content, pedagogy, and experience design. From ideation through validation and development, the Course Product Manager leads the strategic direction of course design and content development, partnering with market experts, researchers, designers, production teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver compelling and effective course experiences. The Product Manager expresses personal ownership of the prioritization of ideas, expresses the view of customers during decision-making and prioritization processes, and synthesizes cross-functional input to ensure solutions brought to market are feasible, viable, and desirable.

We know that talented candidates sometimes hesitate to apply when they don't meet every single qualification listed. We encourage you to apply if you're excited about this role and believe you can contribute meaningfully to our team, even if your background doesn't align perfectly with every requirement. We're looking for people who are passionate about our mission and can bring valuable perspectives to our work. Different experiences, skills, and approaches all have the potential to strengthen what we do. If this opportunity interests you, we'd love to hear how your unique background and abilities could contribute to our team's success. We're committed to building a workplace where everyone can do their best work and where diverse viewpoints are valued. We encourage all qualified candidates to apply - we're excited to learn about the different ways you might add value to our organization.

Major responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead course ideation, validation, and scoping, ensuring alignment with instructor pedagogy and student engagement patterns.
• Evaluate priorities and alignment to OKRs based on qualitative and quantitative data, making recommendations based on those insights and their importance to project partners to help drive the discipline course vision and roadmap. 
• Define and evolve the course strategy for a portfolio of disciplines, grounded in market, learner, and instructor needs. Catalogue and synthesize feedback from users and internal customer liaisons to manage a well organized and well informed backlog.
• Evangelize the product backlog such that priorities show clear alignment to business objectives. Coordinate cross-functionally with other product managers, program managers, learning resource group, and UX to complete multi-team initiatives and establish priority.
• Regularly analyze the competitive market place to best understand customer solutions, course trends, and opportunities to provide advice accordingly.
• Use system data, feedback from customers and other data points to analyze the impact the solution has for users. Monitor, run data analysis, and report on key performance indicators for content assets.
• Translate validated ideas into course and content requirements, collaborating with UX, learning science, and editorial teams to ensure high-quality experiences.
• Obtain early feedback on solutions and understand efforts and trade-offs. Define product features and communicate requirements to Product Designers, LRG and development teams via clearly-written requirements using concise verbal communication.
• Track and drive cross-functional product rollout outside of the product development team to facilitate successful product content use.
• Assess, measure, and present the impact of their team’s work directly to stakeholders, quantifying the value of their progress, and evaluating or recommending possible courses of action.
• Establish and maintain internal partner relationships aligned with evaluating viability and supporting implementation through launch efforts.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree.
• 3+ years’ experience designing and building new products and enhancing existing products.
• 2+ years’ product management or business analyst experience.
• Demonstrated ability to exert influence and deliver on capabilities without having direct control over all participating resources.
• Entrepreneurial drive and demonstrated ability to achieve goals in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledgeable across many functional areas: product management, UX, editorial, sales, customer support, finance, and marketing.
• Problem solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex information orally and in writing to a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience building trust and collaboration through excellent interpersonal skills.
• Strong technical abilities.
• Flexible and willing to work as a team member doing whatever it takes to release an exceptional product.
• Exceptional customer relationship skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.
• Self-motivated.
• Demonstrated success in product strategy and execution.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Product Management Certification a plus.
• Product management or product design experience with a focus on higher education.
• A passion for EdTech, teaching, or another role.
• Product Management or Agile Scrum certification.
• Solid product management experience with a track record of creating innovative software/mobile applications.
• Programming or prototyping experience a plus, agile experience preferred.
• Strong content knowledge in focus area.

Salary Range: $89,000 - $130,000

Exemption Status: Exempt

Physical Requirements:

Requires periods of close concentration; must be able to multi-task; must be able to travel occasionally; work overtime - more than 40 hours a week – regularly, as needed.

The position is eligible for remote employment, excluding the following locations: Alaska, Arkansas, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota, West Virginia, Wyoming.  

Benefits

Regular full-time and qualifying part-time employees and their dependents are eligible for Macmillan benefits, effective on the employee’s date of hire. Macmillan also offers health benefits coverage to qualifying same-sex and opposite-sex domestic partners (may require additional documentation) of active employees.

• Competitive pay and bonus plan
• Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity 
• Generous paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays (Spring Reset Day , Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, Election Day, and more!)
• Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
• 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
• And much more!

Macmillan Learning is a privately-held, family owned company that improves lives through learning. By linking research to learning practice, we develop pioneering products and learning materials for students that are highly effective and drive improved outcomes. Our engaging content is developed in partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers. To learn more, please visit macmillanlearning.com or see us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or join our Macmillan Community. Macmillan Learning is a division of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a family-owned global media company headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany.  

At Macmillan Learning, we believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds enrich our mission to improve lives through learning. We actively seek candidates who reflect a wide range of identities, experiences, and communities. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, ethnicity, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, physical ability, neurodiversity, genetic information, protected veteran status, family and economic status and background, geographical status and background, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. You can read more about our Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion initiatives here.

The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Bedford, Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC d/b/a Macmillan Learning. Bedford Freeman & Worth Publishing Group, LLC has developed an affirmative action program in compliance with the NY Department of Education’s guidance. Portions of the affirmative action program are available for review by applicants and employees by contacting Human Resources at Macmillan Learning.