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Director of Short Courses
McGraw Hill
1 Positions
ID: 6077
Posted On 09/18/2025
Job Overview
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?
The Director of Short Courses is responsible for the creation and execution of Higher Education’s inaugural product strategy into a diverse and complex market. Adopting an entrepreneurial spirit, you are responsible for the development of the organization’s vision for winning new market share and achieving financial expectations. This role is the future of McGraw Hill’s product team, specifically by advancing the organization into emerging opportunities, markets, and products outside of our core higher education business.
This position can work remotely within the United States.
What You’ll do:
Innovate and execute a multi-year product strategy aimed at unlocking financial growth opportunities in new markets within the higher education and adjacent markets across multiple channels.
Evaluate the competitive landscape, emerging industry trends, and regulatory shifts to proactively inform and refine product strategy.
Author complex business cases and persuade stakeholders on strategy to secure funding from MHE’s CEO and owners
Pinpoint gaps in the market, assess evolving customer requirements, and define targeted market entry strategies to maximize impact.
Translate market research and customer insights into innovative product strategies, including strategic partnerships, that drive growth, differentiation, and long-term success.
Leverage business acumen, interpersonal skills, and enterprise expertise to build and align cross-functional teams—including product, sales, marketing, and customer success—to ensure product-market fit and seamless go-to-market execution.
Serve as a champion for product initiatives at all organizational levels, delivering compelling presentations and securing buy-in from senior leadership and key stakeholders.
What you will bring to the role (5-7+ years in the following):
Strategic Data Analysis and Market Innovation:
Demonstrated expertise in analyzing complex data sets to inform strategic planning and drive product innovation in competitive and saturated markets.
Financial Leadership and P&L Oversight:
Proven ability to create, manage, and optimize P&L frameworks to capitalize on new market opportunities and ensure sustainable financial growth.
Compelling Product Advocacy and Storytelling:
Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with a track record of pitching transformative product ideas to diverse audiences, including senior leadership and external partners.
Cross-Organizational Collaboration:
Extensive experience in fostering collaboration across organizational levels and functions, effectively aligning teams to achieve strategic objectives.
Executive Leadership and Strategic Problem-Solving:
Strong leadership capabilities, combining strategic thinking and problem-solving to influence, motivate, and drive results across complex organizational structures.
Agility in Dynamic Environments:
Adept at navigating ambiguity and adapting quickly to shifting market conditions, ensuring resilience and innovation in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Experience and Skills
Experience in higher education ecosystem
Experience in creating, managing, or selling short course, credential products across channels
Consultancy experience
Desire to build own business as general manager within McGraw Hill
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-$170,000 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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Jacqui Edwards
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Location
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Job Type
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Full/Part
Full Time
Company ID
695
Job REQ #
6077
# Positions
1
Start Date
20250918
End Date
20251029
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At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.
Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.
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McGraw Hill
1 Positions
ID: 6077
Posted On 09/18/2025
Job Overview
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?
The Director of Short Courses is responsible for the creation and execution of Higher Education’s inaugural product strategy into a diverse and complex market. Adopting an entrepreneurial spirit, you are responsible for the development of the organization’s vision for winning new market share and achieving financial expectations. This role is the future of McGraw Hill’s product team, specifically by advancing the organization into emerging opportunities, markets, and products outside of our core higher education business.
This position can work remotely within the United States.
What You’ll do:
Innovate and execute a multi-year product strategy aimed at unlocking financial growth opportunities in new markets within the higher education and adjacent markets across multiple channels.
Evaluate the competitive landscape, emerging industry trends, and regulatory shifts to proactively inform and refine product strategy.
Author complex business cases and persuade stakeholders on strategy to secure funding from MHE’s CEO and owners
Pinpoint gaps in the market, assess evolving customer requirements, and define targeted market entry strategies to maximize impact.
Translate market research and customer insights into innovative product strategies, including strategic partnerships, that drive growth, differentiation, and long-term success.
Leverage business acumen, interpersonal skills, and enterprise expertise to build and align cross-functional teams—including product, sales, marketing, and customer success—to ensure product-market fit and seamless go-to-market execution.
Serve as a champion for product initiatives at all organizational levels, delivering compelling presentations and securing buy-in from senior leadership and key stakeholders.
What you will bring to the role (5-7+ years in the following):
Strategic Data Analysis and Market Innovation:
Demonstrated expertise in analyzing complex data sets to inform strategic planning and drive product innovation in competitive and saturated markets.
Financial Leadership and P&L Oversight:
Proven ability to create, manage, and optimize P&L frameworks to capitalize on new market opportunities and ensure sustainable financial growth.
Compelling Product Advocacy and Storytelling:
Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with a track record of pitching transformative product ideas to diverse audiences, including senior leadership and external partners.
Cross-Organizational Collaboration:
Extensive experience in fostering collaboration across organizational levels and functions, effectively aligning teams to achieve strategic objectives.
Executive Leadership and Strategic Problem-Solving:
Strong leadership capabilities, combining strategic thinking and problem-solving to influence, motivate, and drive results across complex organizational structures.
Agility in Dynamic Environments:
Adept at navigating ambiguity and adapting quickly to shifting market conditions, ensuring resilience and innovation in fast-paced environments.
Preferred Experience and Skills
Experience in higher education ecosystem
Experience in creating, managing, or selling short course, credential products across channels
Consultancy experience
Desire to build own business as general manager within McGraw Hill
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-$170,000 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.
49768
Primary Contact
1702837431829
Jacqui Edwards
,
Phone
Phone
Phone
Fax
jacqui.edwards@mheducation.com
True
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Job Details
Categories
Publishing/Printing
Location
Remote, Remote
Job Type
Employee
Full/Part
Full Time
Company ID
695
Job REQ #
6077
# Positions
1
Start Date
20250918
End Date
20251029
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At McGraw Hill, we believe that our contribution to unlocking a brighter future lies within the application of our deep understanding of how learning happens and how the mind develops. It exists where the science of learning meets the art of teaching.
Educators have been and always will be at the core of the learning experience. The solutions we develop help educators impart their knowledge to students more efficiently. We believe that harnessing technology can enhance learning inside and outside of the classroom and deepen the connections between students and teachers to empower greater success.
By partnering with educators around the globe, our learning engineers, content developers and pedagogical experts are developing increasingly open learning ecosystems that are proven to improve pass rates, elevate grades and increase engagement for each individual learner while improving outcomes for all.
Why? Because learning changes everything.
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