Editor

Wiley

21h • Remote

About The Position

Wiley is seeking an Editor for our Math & Statistics courseware portfolio who is curious, creative, innovative and passionate about the future of teaching and learning in Higher Education. In this role, you will focus on driving the vision and strategy for Wiley’s products and courses in the Math and Statistics disciplines. Your products will span both the WileyPLUS and Knewton Alta platforms. You will collaborate with a talented and close-knit team to architect and implement new and updated products and business models.

Requirements

• 2+ years' experience in sales, marketing or editorial in higher education.
• Strong strategic aptitude; proven ability to define a winning business strategy and product roadmap and gain buy-in from stakeholders at all levels.
• The ability to proactively identify and help resolve issues that may impair the team's ability to meet strategic, financial, and technical goals.
• The skills to use data, customer driven insights, and market development capabilities to implement new ways to address teaching and learning challenges for instructors and students.
• Excellent organization, communication, and teamwork skills.
• The ability to work cooperatively with others across the organization to achieve shared objectives.
• The ability to persist in accomplishing objectives despite obstacles and setbacks
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to multi-task/manage a wide variety of tasks and responsibilities.
• Proficiency with MS Office (esp. Excel; PowerPoint).

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Salesforce.
• Proficiency with PowerBI.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a product champion by analyzing external market trends, competition, opportunities that impact the user and capabilities of the content and platform.
• Use deep customer insight and cross-discipline knowledge to drive innovation, strategy, and growth across the portfolio via products, content, delivery of content, course instructional design, new models, and new partnerships.
• Identify new market opportunities and evaluate emerging technology and business issues that may present opportunities or threats to Wiley.
• Manage relationships with authors, academic institutions, key strategic partners, and internal teammates and stakeholders.
• Serve in a customer-facing role to assist sales with presentations, as well as present at various other customer or internal events.
• Acquire and develop new authors, subject matter experts and/or other content contributors to create new courses, content, and digital assets to enhance our course offerings, exceed customer needs, and help lead the way in our evolving higher education markets.
• Support product launches as a primary content provider and ensure knowledge transfer of product functionality to marketing and sales.
• Demonstrate and prove the value of product strategies, visions, and value propositions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Travel to visit college campuses and attend conferences.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees