Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McGraw Hill is dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. The Senior Director, Product Management - Content Transformation will lead the transformation of authoring and content development processes, ensuring high-quality curriculum delivery through effective management of tools and workflows, while integrating AI capabilities for enhanced efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Manage the multi-year business plan and roadmap for School Content Transformation, including alignment with MH-wide content modernization initiatives
- Set the overall vision and roadmap for the transformation of MH School’s content development ecosystem, including print and digital
- Lead build/buy/partner decisions for content authoring, management, and production ecosystems
- Develop business cases and partner with leadership on investment decisions
- Establish a clear roadmap that is aligned to product milestones such that savings can be realized alongside implementation of tools
- Oversee the enablement of cross functional product, content and design teams in adopting new workflows and tools, to serve the scaling need with a focus on change management and post-launch KPI tracking
- Define, prioritize, and govern a multi-year roadmap for content management & tooling, workflows, and AI enablement
- Align roadmap across product portfolios, platform teams, and content organizations to ensure consistency and scale
- Drive prioritization tradeoffs based on business value, ROI, and operational impact
- Collaborate with other BU’s in standardization & alignment of parts of the ecosystem that can drive value enterprise wide
- Lead cross-functional discovery as needed to identify process inefficiencies and define standardized, scalable workflows
- Translate content development needs (capacity, speed, quality) into product and platform requirements
- Ensure tools and capabilities developed by Product/Platform teams are effectively adopted and integrated into content workflows
- Establish operating models and feedback loops between Content, Product, and Engineering teams
- Lead adoption of new systems and workflows across distributed content teams
- Enable teams through communication, training, and support to ensure sustained impact
- Identify, prioritize, and scale AI use cases across content generation, tagging, and workflow automation
- Partner with Data Science, Engineering, Legal, and Data Ethics teams to ensure responsible and scalable AI implementation
- In partnership with the CPO and CAO, define KPIs for content acceleration and establish measurement frameworks across portfolios
- Monitor performance and continuously improve tools, workflows, and adoption
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 12+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, Digital Transformation, Content Platforms, or related leadership roles
- 6+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale product or content transformation initiatives
- A proven track record of leading large-scale publishing or content transformation in complex, global organizations
- Deep expertise in content strategy, digital publishing, and AI-driven innovation
- Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution
- Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in a highly matrixed organization
- Experience modernizing legacy publishing operations and setting new benchmarks/processes
- Master's degree preferred
- Experience within education technology, digital publishing, learning platforms, media, or content-driven organizations
- Familiarity with AI/ML applications in content operations, personalization, and workflow automation
- Knowledge of accessibility standards, localization workflows, and global content operations
- Experience partnering with Data, AI, and Engineering teams on enterprise transformation initiatives
- Background in enterprise SaaS product management and platform modernization efforts
- Experience leading large-scale digital transformation or enterprise content migration programs
- Experience managing multi-year roadmaps and aligning stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Operations
- Strong financial and operational acumen, including business case development and ROI analysis
- Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution and delivery excellence
- Exceptional executive presence, with the ability to inspire, align, and mobilize cross-functional teams and stakeholders of all levels, including the MH Executive Leadership team
- Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proven ability to define and operationalize centralized strategies across distributed teams
- Strong understanding of content management and scalable capability development
- Comfortable challenging the status quo (while knowing what really matters from the past), pioneering new models, and shaping the future of content delivery
Benefits
- An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package
- A full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered
Company Overview
We are a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world. It was founded in 1888, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.mheducation.com.