Sr Learning Manager

Cengage Group•Virtual US OH, OH

2d•$77,100 - $100,200•Remote

About The Position

The Higher Ed Editorial and Learning Team develops a content and program investment strategy. This strategy sets the global standard for relevancy, comprehensiveness, and pedagogical design supported by research. Their work involves forming hypotheses, reviewing data, studying audience needs, and examining market, competitive, and industry trends. They test ideas and decide on content design using insights and evidence. Cengage empowers users to build rewarding careers with tailored learning experiences that link existing skills to necessary skills. Learning Managers (LMs) demonstrate their knowledge and experience in student and instructor needs, learning science, and curriculum development to enable the content strategy for their focus areas. Using an agile and strategic approach, market-based insights, and instructional design methodologies, LMs recommend and implement improvements to higher-education course materials and career-training curricula. LMs collaborate with a wide range of team members including editorial managers, program associates, content project managers, researchers, product marketing managers, authors/content creators, external vendors, and more. Our LMs are curious, tenacious, dedicated to sharing ideas, and committed to questioning the status quo in learning.

Requirements

Cultivate innovation and quality in assigned rigors and course areas, identifying chances to improve the lives of our learners through quality learning design.
Apply learning science and digital learning methodologies to assigned fields.
Communicate optimally, through strong verbal and written skills, including audience-centric analysis, persuasion, influence, and documentation.
Collaborate with peers using interpersonal savvy in problem-solving, making trade-offs, and building rapport.
Develop authoring talent/content creators to meet current and future organizational goals.
Handle complex, long-range projects with multiple partners in a dynamic remote-work environment.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, and file-sharing tools; experience with applied AI.
3–5 years of full-time work experience, preferably with experience in a corporate environment.
Proven dedication to continuous professional improvement, learning, and a growth mindset.

Nice To Haves

Educational or professional background in instructional design, learning design, or related field.
Experience in designing inclusive content for diverse audiences.
Teaching experience in higher education.
Subject Matter Expertise in Social Science fields, such as Psychology, Political Science, or History

Responsibilities

Inform and/or update author content and pedagogy with universal and portfolio-specific perspective based in learning theory, currency, and career readiness.
Serve as the student journey and discipline-level learning design expert, collaborating with colleagues in editorial, business strategy, marketing, authoring and content creation, and production.
Review new and existing content and update plans against the editorial team strategy, Cengage’s quality learning standards, research-based insights, and established protocols. Ensure alignment, consistency, and appropriateness across the field.
Design digital content to fill gaps and seize opportunities for improving learning, based on insights into platform functionalities, user experience and satisfaction, and content usage statistics.
Design and advocate for improvements in accessibility, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of content and authoring.
Collaborate with authors/subject matter experts/industry partners and team members throughout the curriculum development process, seeking out varied perspectives and expertise.
Establish and maintain field tools and guidelines for field content creation/creators.
Support freelance and vendor content creators as necessary to ensure content quality and timely delivery. Develop new authoring talent for the field and learning needs and understanding of digital product and use of authoring tools.
Apply emerging learning trends and discipline-specific guidelines to continuously innovate and improve learning designs. Stay current with EdTech and subject area trends, key competitive developments, learning science research, and content design standards.