Senior Program Manager, EdTech: Cross-Functional Leader

Cengage Group; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead multi-disciplinary programs across Higher Education, aligning priorities, capabilities, and roadmaps from planning through customer rollout.

You will coordinate Product, Content, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams, manage risks, define objectives, and drive measurable outcomes while fostering cross-functional collaboration and executive-level decision making.

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.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into coordinated portfolios, roadmaps, workstreams, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to identify patterns and common needs across multiple initiatives and drive alignment around shared capabilities.
• Strong relationship-building and partner management across functions and levels.

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

Cross-functional collaboration

Portfolio planning

Roadmap development

Executive communication

Vendor management

Tools

Jira/Confluence

Job description

Cengage Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead multi-disciplinary programs across Higher Education, aligning priorities, capabilities, and roadmaps from planning through customer rollout.

You will coordinate Product, Content, Engineering, and Go-to-Market teams, manage risks, define objectives, and drive measurable outcomes while fostering cross-functional collaboration and executive-level decision making.