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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?

McGraw Hill, a leader in digital and print educational solutions, is seeking a Director, Instructional Design to help shape the future of education by creating best-in-class digital teaching and learning experiences. The Director is responsible for collaborating across our academic design, product management, creative design, and technology teams to develop and deliver effective and engaging teaching and learning experiences.

As a leader in the organization, you help catalyze transformation of our instructional design practice by connecting our ecosystem of instructional models, content, digital tools, and educator supports that empower teachers and engage students. Reporting to the Senior Director of Learning Architecture & Instructional Design, you will oversee a functional team of Instructional Designers and collaborate within our product system where cross-functional teams optimize digital content in every experience we bring to market, or our experience system where cross-functional teams deliver supports and enablers to our product and platform systems. You will operate in an environment that requires excellent problem[1]solving skills and exceptional collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills.

This position can work remotely within the United States.

What You’ll do:

• Digital Content Delivery: You have a strong point-of-view on when and how digital experiences are best used in instruction. You drive learning outcomes and follow research-based best practices, partnering closely with Content Academic Design and Learning Architecture. You and your team are responsible for developing and delivering flexible, accessible, engaging, effective, and modular digital content in our products. •

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Content Academic Design, Product, Marketing, UX, and Engineering teams to define the most important problems to solve for our users and then co-create learning experiences that are grounded in research and responsive to customer feedback. Employ quality assurance testing, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement processes and practices.

• Find & Hire the Right People: Define and assemble the right roles and people to form, not just a department, but a team that is relentless in creating learning experiences for students that drive outcomes. Mentor, foster, and support intelligent innovation and risk taking that aligns with overall product strategy and business objectives.

• Change Champion: Serve as a change agent who motivates, guides, and empowers their teams and cross-functional partners to adopt new processes, systems, and behaviors. Lead and support change initiatives by clearly communicating vision, benefits, and expectations. Collaborate with leadership to identify resistance, address concerns, and build a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.

• Data-Driven Improvement: Develop and apply metrics to evaluate the effectiveness, quality, and efficiency of the content in our learning experiences—driving iterative improvements across the ecosystem.

What you will bring to the role: 

• Instructional Design Expertise: You can match instructional goals with the best digital learning activities and know how to design and build supporting multimedia. You conduct instructional research analyses, and apply tested instructional design theories, practices, and methods as you envision and deliver new digital experiences. You can quickly deliver a low-fidelity concept, mockup, or prototype to facilitate discussion and get feedback. You also understand trade-offs are necessary to bring an experience to life, both for end users and our internal delivery teams.

• Production & Tooling Expertise: You are a master craftsperson when it comes to the tools and workflows needed to bring a learning experience to life in digital. As new features and capabilities in our platform emerge, new creation tools also emerge, and you quickly learn and adapt your ways of working. You lead strategic thinking about effective metadata, tagging, and build strategies as necessary, and can guide both internal teams and vendors to scale production.

• Pedagogical Understanding: Refined knowledge of pedagogical approaches specific to your focus area, and situations where those approaches are best employed. You know how to translate pedagogical intent into efficacious learning experiences and use models, like SAMR, to help guide your decisions.

• Content Innovation & AI Integration: Ability to champion new ideas and emerging technologies—especially AI—to evolve how content is created, adapted, optimized, and personalized at scale.

• Leadership Qualities: You exhibit exceptional communication and leadership skills. You build broad support with peers and other cross-functional leaders, moving them to commitment and action. You have a strong presence and work with your team to ensure effective collaboration with others and timely delivery of responsibilities.

• Business and Financial Acumen: You understand how business value is created through Instructional design and help develop compelling business cases to fund new development. Experience developing RFPs and vendor contracts that align with business objectives.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (Master’s or Doctorate) in education, instructional design, or related field preferred.
• 7+ years in product development, with 5+ years in people leadership roles.
• Experience managing vendors, independent contractors, and other third-party relationships
• Ed tech experience preferred
• Knowledge of Content Management Systems, authoring, and learning management tools.
• Proven ability to inspire, influence and negotiate at all levels of an organization
• Familiarity with agile development environments.

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 $90,000-$140,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 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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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?

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a Senior Director, Creative Design within our K-12 division who will be responsible for shaping and guiding the overall creative vision, strategy, workflow, and team structure to build world-class educational products. The Senior Director will manage and inspire multiple teams of designers and is responsible for collaborating across product management, product marketing, academic design, user experience, and technology to develop and deliver effective and engaging teaching and learning experiences (both print and digital) in multiple content domains.

This position can work remotely within the continental United States.

What You’ll do:

• Develop the Visual Strategy & Brand Identity: Define and maintain the visual identity for our portfolio programs that differentiate us in the market. Ensure consistent use of typography, color, illustration, and layout across textbooks, workbooks, and digital resources. Oversee the visual presentation of complex learning content (diagrams, infographics, tables, multimedia). Drive towards a cohesive experience across all touchpoints.
• Lead Creative Teams: Manage designers, media specialists, illustrators, animators, operations specialists, etc. to ensure work aligns with the vision and meets strategic goals. Provide feedback and mentorship to ensure high-quality, age-appropriate, and pedagogically sound designs.
• Champion User Empathy: Develop and foster an environment of design excellence that is rooted in user empathy. Balance process and productivity with craft and creative explorations; emphasis on early prototyping, iterative cycles, and learning directly from users. Your organization will produce designs that meet needs in surprisingly simple ways, ensuring that accessibility standards are always met.

The Senior Director will report to the Vice President of User Experience and will be a member of the leadership team who is accountable for defining holistic product experience and delivering industry leading programs to market. You will be part of driving design innovation, and you will proactively propose changes and improvements in process, people, and products to propel us forward. You will have direct management responsibility for approximately 100 individuals at varying levels within our creative and media design career pathways. You will operate in an environment that requires excellent problem-solving skills and exceptional team collaboration, facilitation, and communication skills while ensuring operational effectiveness of your teams, including delivery on time and budget. You must also be energized by collaboration with cross-functional teams, including content experts, project managers, business managers, UX strategists and designers, software engineers, and product marketing managers and strive to enable streamlined collaboration across teams at scale.

Key Duties:

• Define and execute comprehensive strategy for creative design, inclusive of print and digital, within McGraw Hill’s preK-12 core, intervention, and supplemental programs.
• Lead creative design from conceptualization to implementation using an iterative approach including visual design, media production, and accessibility compliance.
• Lead design and media operations and systems, resulting in efficient and replicable processes, guidelines, and tools.
• Assess performance and establish design metrics related to design quality, efficiency, and impact.
• Participate in industry events, conferences, customer research and advisory boards.

What you will bring to the role: 

• Creative Design Expertise: You know the importance of being able to quickly deliver a low fidelity concept, mockup, or prototype to facilitate discussion and get feedback. You also understand the tools and workflows needed to bring a creative design to life regardless of delivery medium, print or digital. You are a design thought leader within and outside the organization. You represent McGraw Hill to key groups within the industry and maintain a strong network within the design community.
• Design Strategy: You partner closely with Learning Architecture and Experience Strategy to define the holistic experience for our programs. You communicate a vision for visual and media design, including formulating and implementing design principles and values, for your teams and non-design stakeholders effectively impacting activities, behaviors, and mindsets. You define short- and long-term creative design strategies and roadmaps to implement them. Using a human-centered approach, you translate first-hand knowledge of customers into creative design goals, and direction.
• Leadership and Change Agency: You exhibit exceptional communication and leadership skills. You build broad support with peers and other cross-functional leaders, moving them to commitment and action. You have strong presence and work with your team to ensure effective collaboration with others and timely delivery of responsibilities. You develop and build a staff that embraces a continuous learning mindset, holds plans loosely and is open to iterative and incremental delivery, and celebrates failure because that means we’ve learned.
• Business and Financial Acumen: You understand how business value is created through creative design, and you help develop compelling business cases to fund new development. You also develop annual operating budgets in collaboration with leadership and monitor ongoing expenditures to ensure alignment. You know how to balance and support creative teams who strive for perfection when the business and our users might have different needs. You recognize that influence beats skills almost every time and refocus creative energy in that direction, when appropriate. You build industry best practices into the work to gain efficiency and productivity.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, advanced degree (Masters or Doctorate) is preferred
• 10+ years of creative design experience
• 5+ years people leadership experience
• In-depth knowledge of human-centered design practices, research methodologies, design tools, and accessibility
• Experience managing vendors, independent contractors, and other third-party relationships
• Proven ability to build and lead strong teams; to inspire, influence, and negotiate at all levels of an organization
• Ed tech experience preferred

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-$160,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 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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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.

McGraw Hill conducts business through four operating segments: K-12, Higher Education, Global Professional, and International.

How can you make an impact?

We are seeking a Director, Product Management to play a critical role in defining and delivering intuitive, impactful solutions for students across iOS, Android, and web platforms. You will collaborate closely with researchers, designers, engineers, and executive stakeholders to manage the product roadmap, ship complex features, and create loveable experiences that drive student success.

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

What You’ll Do:

• Lead user research and partner with designers and engineers to develop and launch impactful, intuitive products across iOS, Android, and web platforms.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and customers to prioritize and document a product roadmap informed by both qualitative and quantitative insights.
• Solve complex challenges with user-first solutions, creating experiences that are both simple and loveable.
• Manage a team that ships updates and features multiple times per week across platforms.
• Leverage analytics and customer behavior platforms (e.g., Segment, AppsFlyer) to evaluate product performance and inform future decisions.
• Translate user research into actionable recommendations and compelling narratives for executives and investors.
• Build alignment with stakeholders by effectively communicating priorities, goals, and progress.
• Balance competing priorities across features, platforms, and timelines, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality results.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, resourcefulness, and innovation, driving results across teams.

What you bring:

Required:

• A customer-centric mindset.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to ship complex products across iOS and web (Android experience a plus).
• Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on designing simple, intuitive solutions for complex challenges.
• Expertise in defining, prioritizing, and managing product roadmaps informed by both qualitative and quantitative data.
• Familiarity with analytics and customer behavior platforms (e.g., Segment, AppsFlyer).
• Proven ability to ship multiple updates per week across multiple platforms.
• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with experience translating user insights into strategic recommendations for stakeholders, executives, and investors.
• A resourceful and curious mindset, with a drive to achieve impactful results.

Preferred:

• Experience working at a digital content and/or consumer-facing platform company (e.g., Duolingo, Spotify, Netflix)
• Experience with RICE scoring or similar prioritization frameworks.
• Experience with content management systems.

Why Join Sharpen?

• Mission-Driven: Help shape a new product that directly impacts student success.
• Innovative Culture: Collaborate with a talented team that values creativity, curiosity, and excellence.
• Growth Opportunities: Take ownership of key product areas and influence Sharpen’s growth trajectory.
• Flexibility: Enjoy a remote-first culture with flexible scheduling.

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.

Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.

The pay range for this position is between $136,900,$200,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. 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.

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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Overview

Make an Impact!

At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher’s time and a student’s learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life.

How can you make an impact?   

McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational solutions, is looking for a Marketing Manager. Reporting to the Director of Marketing, the Non-Majors Biology and Environmental Science Product Marketing Manager will be responsible for the go-to-market plan, strategy, and execution to exceed revenue goals. You will have the opportunity to play a critical role in driving digital growth, through designing thought leadership campaigns, strategic lead generation tactics, building relationships with customers, developing high impact events, and helping to create high quality marketing materials, along with additional demand generation activities to drive leads and support other team goals.  

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

What you will be doing: 

What you need to be considered:   

Here’s what we offer:   

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions. 

The pay range for this position is between $50,000 – $100,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location.  This position includes an annual incentive plan based on company performance.  Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefits offerings.  

McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” or “@careers.mheducation.com” email addresses 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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