Senior Program Manager, EdTech — Cross-Functional Delivery

Cengage Group; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to drive multi-disciplinary initiatives across Higher Education.

You will align disciplines, manage dependencies, and coordinate complex programs from planning through customer rollout. You will collaborate with Product, Content, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and other teams to ensure prioritized work delivers measurable outcomes and aligns with strategic priorities.

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.
• Strong relationship-building and partner management across functions and levels.
• Executive communication skills to synthesize complex information and facilitate senior stakeholder decisions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a portfolio view across disciplines to connect priorities and planned work for visibility and alignment.
• Identify common capability needs and coordinate prioritization to support shared roadmaps.
• Define and track objectives and measurable outcomes tied to business impact.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and unresolved questions across disciplines and drive resolution.
• Coordinate Product, Content, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and other teams through delivery and adoption.

Skills

Program management

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Risk management

Education

PMP

PgMP

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cengage Group is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to drive multi-disciplinary initiatives across Higher Education.

You will align disciplines, manage dependencies, and coordinate complex programs from planning through customer rollout. You will collaborate with Product, Content, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and other teams to ensure prioritized work delivers measurable outcomes and aligns with strategic priorities.