Senior Director Program Management

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.

How can you make an impact?

As the Senior Director of Program Management, you will lead the successful delivery of a portfolio of digital education products . You will inspire and empower a team of program managers, working closely with Product, Engineering, and User Experience teams to ensure our programs are clear, aligned, and impactful. Your leadership will help our programs deliver value, improve visibility, and build a proactive culture of risk management and collaboration.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What You'll Do:

• Lead with Vision: Establish a vision for a high-performing program management team. Set high standards for yourself and your team, and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth. Drive the program management function beyond just processes, focusing on making a real impact.
• Communicate Clearly: Engage and build consensus across programs and cross-functional teams, including Product, Engineering, User Experience, Content, and go-to-market teams. Improve transparency at all levels of the organization, ensuring stakeholders have the right information at the right time.
• Recruit, Mentor, Develop and Retain: Lead and mentor program managers to promote growth and improvement. Develop a scalable approach to leadership development and build strong relationships with other functions to maximize effectiveness.
• Manage Risks Proactively: Create a culture of proactive risk identification and mitigation. Encourage your teams to creatively address risks before they become blockers. Foster quick iterations and feedback loops to keep projects moving smoothly.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Lead initiatives across departments to improve processes and increase teamwork. Gathering cross functional perspective to support more informed decisions that benefit the success of your programs
• Balance Delivery and Team Well-being: Ensure successful program delivery while maintaining a healthy team environment. Prioritize both performance and well-being, fostering a supportive culture that values team growth.
• Track Performance and Report: Set clear success metrics and track progress. Use data to make informed decisions, improve outcomes, and highlight key achievements.
• Drive Operational Excellence: Oversee every stage of the program lifecycle, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to a high standard. Continuously improve processes to ensure smooth and effective delivery.
  
  

What You Bring:

• Inspiring Leadership: You have led change in program management and grown teams in terms of skills, impact, and size. Your leadership is both supportive and challenging, helping your team exceed expectations.
• Innovative Thinker: An insatiable curiosity and growth mindset. You and your team have proactively stayed on top of the evolution and innovations in agile program management and leveraged that new thinking to experiment and improve team performance.
• Clear Communication: Strong skills in building collaboration across diverse stakeholders. You create an environment of open dialogue, simplify complex information for different audiences, and keep communication effective and focused.
• Portfolio Management: Proven success overseeing a large, complex portfolio and ensuring projects align with strategic goals. You have developed processes that foster innovation and implemented strategies that enhance visibility and accountability.
• Proven Results: A history of successfully delivering complex programs and projects, consistently meeting or exceeding goals. You are committed to delivering real results that align with strategic objectives while maintaining high standards.
• Commitment to Inclusion: A commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment. You value diverse perspectives and are dedicated to creating a culture that encourages growth for everyone.
  
  

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 $110,000 - $170,000 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.

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.

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