Impact the Moment

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize teachers' time and students' learning. And we do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning.

Your impact on team

As a Sr. Associate, Technical Product Manager at McGraw-Hill you will have a passionate interest and exceptional abilities in the envisioning, discovery, design, and development of engaging experiences for Students, Teachers, and Administrators. You will operate in an environment that requires excellent problem-solving skills and exceptional team collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills. You will individually focus on applying creative and analytical approaches to any challenge, leveraging both your team's input and that of the user. You will be in constant collaboration with UX and Engineering.

Your mission will be to advance learning outcomes for students and teachers by delivering market-leading McGraw-Hill content and learning tools wherever learning is happening. You will do this by finding and delivering on opportunities to integrate our platforms with 3rd party learning platforms where it matters most, create seamless experiences, and create a unified and scalable integrations platform that makes it easy for McGraw-Hill to meet students and teachers where they are at. This is an associate role reporting directly to the Sr. Technical Product Manager of Integrations.

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

What You'll Do:

• Draft project charters, requirements, agile epics, and stories; maintain backlog with high quality stories, acceptance criteria, and current priority.
• Partner with leadership group (LG) to deliver roadmap commitments on-time, on-scope, on-quality.
• Work with Technical Product Managers (TPMs) to ensure cross team dependencies are identified, understood by all affected teams, and then properly managed. Support the TPMs in cross-team collaboration and coordination that result in a successful end-to-end user experience.
• Participate in scrum ceremonies to ensure that there is an understanding of the user stories, enabling sizing and task breakdown to occur, and maximizing team productivity.
• Communicate with technical teams and business stakeholders, including managing expectations, scope, and prioritization of work.
• Partner with engineering, product owners, user experience, project management, and QA to investigate, document, and maintain business and technical processes.
• Document competitive landscape, release notes, workflows, processes, case studies, training materials, and technical alternatives for specific epics or feature sets.
• Work with Product Owners to align your product vision and strategy to company objectives.
• Get your hands dirty - doing any job on the team necessary to build and ship a successful product.

About You:

• Bachelor's Degree with 1-2 years of experience in agile software product development, particularly in platform and applications development and/or website design and development.
• Experience with EdTech and/or LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Google Classroom) and IMS standards experience (LTI) is highly preferred.
• Experience with user story writing, use case diagram development, wireframe and design analysis, business/ecommerce/SaaS application analysis, and backlog management.
• Ability to understand and transform technical concepts into non-technical terms that are understandable by business and customer stakeholders and teams.
• Demonstrated leadership potential to effectively work across multiple teams, business units, and stakeholders.
• Deadline-conscious, results-driven, and high-performing in a high-intensity environment
• Acute attention to detail, the ability to analyze complex systems, and the ability to manage multiple projects concurrently.
• Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and organizational communication skills; must be able to communicate with technical teams and business stakeholders, as well as clearly document software for these audiences.
• Demonstrated people skills; must be able to collaborate effectively with diverse personalities and skill sets, remote teams in various time zones, and enjoy constructive conflict.
• Jira and Confluence experience
• Technical prowess - you don't need to code, but you shouldn't be afraid of diving into technical issues.
• An appreciation and passion for well-designed solutions
• Self-motivation and a strong desire to make an impact at McGraw-Hill.
• Critical feedback skills (giving/receiving) that help level up solutions.

Bonus Points

• Previous experience in software engineering, product design, software support
• Experience working in an agile and/or lean development environment.
• LMS (Canvas, Schoology, Blackboard, Google Classroom) and IMS standards experience (LTI)
• Educational industry experience: EdTech, Instructor, Administrator

Why McGraw Hill?

• We firmly believe in the mission of educating students and helping them succeed.
• Our teams operate in a collaborative and safe environment where everyone's input is valued, trusted, and respected.
• You'll have opportunity for horizontal and vertical movement and growth throughout the organization, including clear career paths for your long term personal and professional growth. We hire good people rather than filling team vacancies or checking boxes for technical skillsets.
• We have a mindset of "deliver value, not features": we produce meaningful products and services for our students, teachers, administrators, and others that further our educational mission rather than focus on just executing a JIRA ticket number.

The pay range for this position is between $85,000 - $100,000 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.

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