Product Management Dir

HMH

1d • $110,000 - $145,000 • Remote

About The Position

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Location: Remote

Who We Are

NWEA, a division of HMH, supports educators worldwide by providing responsive, evidence-based assessment solutions that illuminate learning needs and fuel student growth. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K–12 assessments, including its flagship assessment – MAP Growth, and professional learning that helps educators strengthen their practice and improve student outcomes. As part of its commitment to bring valuable insights to the education community, NWEA engages in research examining issues that shine a light on inequities and other barriers to academic opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7–10 years product management experience
• 3+ years leading a product team
• Strong commercial orientation with proven ability to successfully manage product line financial outcomes.
• Proven ability to define, communicate, and deliver product roadmaps through cross-functional teams while managing competing priorities.
• Experience in the education assessment sector with demonstrated depth in literacy assessment and/or literacy instruction.
• Ability to anticipate and make timely decisions that result in effective products, programs, scalable processes, and business outcomes.
• Adept in professionally partnering with customers, colleagues, and industry experts to develop and maintain long-term supportive relationships.
• Demonstrates clear, concise, and compelling communication ability, combined with a proven track record of negotiating favorable outcomes among stakeholders to complex problems and scenarios.

Nice To Haves

• Pragmatic product marketing certification, or similar
• Experience leading product migration or product integration projects

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product vision, strategy and roadmap for MAP Growth literacy solutions by leveraging customer insights, market demand, industry trends, competitive dynamics and organization objectives.
• Identify portfolio investment opportunities across the suite of NWEA and HMH solutions in support of enterprise integration strategies.
• Make clear, data-informed tradeoff decisions across features, investments, and timelines to ensure focus on measurable literacy outcomes.
• Own revenue growth, margin performance, and portfolio health ensuring strong alignment between product investments and business outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Sales, Finance, and Product Marketing on pricing and growth strategies.
• Develop business cases and monitor commercial performance metrics.
• Establish clear standards for product discovery, prioritization, and delivery to ensure work is focused on the highest-impact opportunities.
• Drive disciplined roadmap execution with measurable outcomes, balancing innovation, usability, and psychometric rigor in partnership with Research and Engineering.
• Ensure product decisions are grounded in data, user insights, and clear success metrics.
• Lead, hire, mentor and inspire the product team supporting their success as individuals and as a collective high performing team.
• Set clear objectives and foster a collaborative environment to ensure the team’s success in delivering high-quality products.
• Nurture robust relationships with stakeholders with the ability to influence cross-functionally and align teams around priorities and tradeoff decisions.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing on go-to-market strategy and launch activities.
• Collaborate with Product leaders across HMH and NWEA to ensure alignment and integration across the broader assessment ecosystem.
• Serve as product SME internally and externally.

Benefits

• Salary Range - $110,000 to $145,000. Our salary ranges are based on national averages. We have wide ranges so we can be flexible and determine compensation based on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education, and location.
• Our Culture and Benefits - https://careers.hmhco.com/culture_benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director