Senior Program Manager, EdTech & Cross-Functional Delivery

Cengage Group; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group in the United States is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to lead cross‑discipline initiatives from planning through rollout, coordinating Product, Content, Engineering and GTM teams.

You will establish operating models, manage dependencies, and drive measurable outcomes, senior stakeholder decisions, and aligned roadmaps. This full‑time role requires strong facilitation and executive communication skills.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex programs across product strategy, content, technology, and commercial teams.
• Experience establishing operating models, governance, planning processes, and decision frameworks for complex multi-functional initiatives.
• Ability to translate strategy into coordinated portfolios, roadmaps, workstreams, and measurable outcomes.
• Identify patterns and common needs across multiple initiatives and drive alignment around shared capabilities.
• Strong relationship-building and partner management across functions and levels.
• Executive communication to synthesize complex information, frame tradeoffs, and enable decisions among senior stakeholders.
• Experience operating in a matrixed organization with distributed authority.
• Strong facilitation, problem-solving, and organizational skills to manage multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a portfolio view across disciplines, connecting priorities, opportunities, capability needs, and planned work to create visibility and alignment across groups.
• Identify common capability needs across subjects and disciplines, surface opportunities for reuse, and coordinate prioritization and sequencing to support shared capabilities and aligned roadmaps.
• Define and track objectives and measurable outcomes, connecting program progress to business and customer impact.
• Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and unresolved questions across disciplines and workstreams, ensuring they are visible and driven to resolution.
• Surface decisions and tradeoffs, bring together the right stakeholders and information, and drive alignment on a path forward.
• Coordinate Product, Content, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and other teams through delivery, launch, and adoption of new capabilities.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across teams to remove blockers and drive execution.
• Ensure work is prioritized, well-defined, and aligned with strategic priorities and business goals.

Skills

Program leadership

Governance

Roadmaps

Stakeholder mgmt

Vendor management

Executive comms

Matrix organization

Facilitation

Education

PMP, PgMP certifications

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cengage Group in the United States is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to lead cross‑discipline initiatives from planning through rollout, coordinating Product, Content, Engineering and GTM teams.

You will establish operating models, manage dependencies, and drive measurable outcomes, senior stakeholder decisions, and aligned roadmaps. This full‑time role requires strong facilitation and executive communication skills.