Senior Product Developer
About The Position
McGraw-Hill Higher Education Product Developers create and deliver engaging, efficient, and effective digital learning experiences and validated assessments for higher education courses. They oversee content quality by conceptualizing, developing, shaping, and editing intellectual property for digital and print delivery, while coordinating authors, subject-matter experts, production teams, and digital platform teams. They transform content into value-added experiences that meet learning outcomes and customer expectations. The Senior Product Developer leads complex product development and is accountable for product coherence, educational integrity, customer value, and informed decision-making throughout the product lifecycle. The role resolves ambiguity, leads high-impact author and partner relationships, mentors others, and balances learning quality, accessibility, trust, market relevance, course stability, speed, and cost. This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Five years of experience in product management and product development.
- Two to three years of experience managing digital product development.
- Customer-centered judgment grounded in instructor and student evidence.
- Knowledge of learning science, instructional design, assessment quality, accessibility, and universal design.
- Ability to use data and qualitative evidence to make and explain product decisions.
- Responsible use of AI-assisted workflows, including verification, bias awareness, source traceability, and human review.
- Clear communication and collaboration with authors, subject-matter experts, vendors, and cross-functional partners.
- Ability to work in iterative, evergreen development models while protecting product coherence and course stability.
- Proven success leading complex product work and influencing decisions without relying on formal authority.
- Strong developmental judgment, business awareness, data interpretation, and negotiation skills.
Nice To Haves
- Related advanced coursework or equivalent work experience.
Responsibilities
- Lead development strategy and execute complex, high-impact, or multi-component products, establishing outcomes, quality criteria, review approaches, and evidence-based release plans.
- Synthesize customer research, learning and usage analytics, competitive evidence, correction patterns, and business context to make and defend product-level decisions.
- Ensure coherence across narrative content, assessments, adaptive experiences, instructor resources, media, accessibility, metadata, and digital implementation.
- Lead authors, subject-matter experts, reviewers, suppliers, and cross-functional partners through difficult tradeoffs, scope changes, quality concerns, and iterative releases.
- Define fit-for-purpose human-review controls for AI-assisted content and workflows; approve outputs within assigned scope and escalate material academic, legal, privacy, bias, provenance, or trust risks.
- Mentor Product Developers, improve practices, and lead cross-functional initiatives that strengthen customer experience, learning quality, development effectiveness, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- A full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
