Remote Product Developer - Higher Education Learning

TrulyHired; United States; Remote; USD 50,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

McGraw Hill is seeking a Product Developer to advance higher education products and learning experiences from planning through release and maintenance. You will work with authors, experts, and vendors to ensure content quality, accessibility, and alignment with course needs.

The role emphasizes data-informed decisions, iterative development, and responsible use of AI within an education-focused product team, with a fully remote arrangement for US applicants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education, publishing, instructional design, or related field.
• 2-5 years of related experience in product development, educational publishing, learning design, editorial development, or digital learning products.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working on Agile teams.
• Familiarity with print and digital curriculum design, including knowledge of educational standards.
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to independently manage development work and make sound content decisions.
• Working knowledge of digital authoring, assessment, analytics, accessibility, and structured-content practices.

Responsibilities

• Own development plans and assigned product outcomes across print and digital content, assessments, instructor resources, and related learning experiences.
• Validate customer problems through instructor, student, market, competitive, usage, and correction evidence; translate findings into clear content, learning-design, and release decisions.
• Guide authors, subject-matter experts, reviewers, and suppliers through scope, expectations, feedback, schedules, and quality standards; maintain constructive relationships that improve the final customer experience.
• Make content-level decisions within approved strategy and standards, including developmental editing, assessment design, accessibility, evidence quality, metadata, permissions, and product consistency.
• Use AI and automation to accelerate appropriate work while verifying accuracy, context, bias, provenance, copyright and licensing considerations, and alignment to product voice and pedagogy.
• Monitor product performance and customer feedback after release; recommend and implement smaller, evidence-driven improvements that preserve course stability.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in education, publishing, instructional design, or related field

Job description

McGraw Hill is seeking a Product Developer to advance higher education products and learning experiences from planning through release and maintenance. You will work with authors, experts, and vendors to ensure content quality, accessibility, and alignment with course needs.

The role emphasizes data-informed decisions, iterative development, and responsible use of AI within an education-focused product team, with a fully remote arrangement for US applicants.