Senior Product Developer

Mcgraw Hill; New York (NY); Remote; USD 55,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

McGraw Hill Higher Education seeks a Senior Product Developer to lead complex product development, ensuring educational integrity and customer value across the lifecycle. You will oversee cross-functional work with authors, SMEs, and production teams to shape digital and print content.

The role emphasizes data-driven decision-making, AI-assisted workflows, and collaboration to balance quality, accessibility, speed, and cost in a remote United States setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; related advanced coursework or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5 years of product management and product development.
• 2-3 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead development strategy and execute complex, high-impact products with clear outcomes and release plans.
• Synthesize customer research, analytics, and business context to defend product decisions.
• Ensure coherence across content, assessments, accessibility, and digital implementation.
• Lead authors, SMEs, reviewers, vendors, and partners through scope changes and quality concerns.
• Define controls for AI-assisted content and escalate risks as needed.
• Mentor Product Developers and drive cross-functional initiatives for better customer experience.

Skills

Product management

Product development

Data analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

AI governance

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

iCIMS

AEDT

Job description

Overview

Impact the moment

McGraw-Hill Higher Education Product Developers create and deliver engaging, efficient, and effective digital learning experiences and validated assessments for courses in higher education. Product Developers oversee content quality by conceptualizing, developing, shaping and editing intellectual property for digital and print delivery while managing and coordinating the efforts of authors, contributors/SMEs, and production & digital platform teams. Product Developers transform good content into value-added experiences that meet learning outcomes and exceed customer expectations.

How can you make an impact?

The Senior Product Developer leads complex product development work and is accountable for product coherence, educational integrity, customer value, and informed decision-making across the lifecycle. This role resolves ambiguity, leads high-impact author and partner relationships, mentor's 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.

What you will be doing:

• Leading development strategy and executing complex, high-impact, or multi-component products, establishing clear outcomes, quality criteria, review approaches, and evidence-based release plans.
• Synthesizing customer research, learning and usage analytics, competitive evidence, correction patterns, and business context to make and defend product-level decisions.
• Ensuring coherence across narrative content, assessments, adaptive experiences, instructor resources, media, accessibility, metadata, and digital implementation.
• Leading authors, subject-matter experts, reviewers, suppliers, and cross-functional partners through difficult tradeoffs, scope changes, quality concerns, and iterative releases.
• Defining 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.
• Mentoring Product Developers, improve practices, and lead cross-functional initiatives that strengthen customer experience, learning quality, development effectiveness, and continuous improvement.

You should apply if you have:

• Bachelor's Degree required; related advanced coursework or equivalent work experience preferred.
• 5 years of product management and product development.
• 2-3 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.

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 fulfillment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

The pay range for this position is between $54,500 - $82,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. to learn more about our benefit offerings.

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