Product Manager, Course (High School)

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!  

The Product Manager, Course (High School) owns the vision, strategy, and execution of a portfolio of Bedford, Freeman, and Worth High School course areas, ensuring that each course offering meets the needs of teachers 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 Product Manager, Course (High School) 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 teacher 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 teacher 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 marketplace 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.