Senior Program Manager: EdTech Strategy & Delivery

Cengage Group; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group in the United States seeks a Sr. Program Manager to lead cross-disciplinary programs across Higher Education, coordinating planning, priorities and rollout from concept to customer adoption.

You will align discipline groups, manage dependencies and risks, and drive repeatable planning and governance to deliver shared capabilities, measurable outcomes, and value for learners and institutions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary programs.
• Ability to translate strategy into coordinated roadmaps and workstreams.
• Proven ability to manage dependencies, risks, and decisions.
• Strong relationship-building and partner management skills.
• Executive communication and facilitation across senior stakeholders.

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 management

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Problem solving

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cengage Group in the United States seeks a Sr. Program Manager to lead cross-disciplinary programs across Higher Education, coordinating planning, priorities and rollout from concept to customer adoption.

You will align discipline groups, manage dependencies and risks, and drive repeatable planning and governance to deliver shared capabilities, measurable outcomes, and value for learners and institutions.