Senior Program Manager, EdTech Strategy & Delivery

Cengage Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our Higher Education team. You will connect priorities across product, content, engineering and go-to-market to coordinate complex, multi-functional programs from planning through customer rollout.

This high-visibility role requires aligning discipline groups, managing dependencies and risks, and establishing repeatable planning and rollout approaches to drive measurable business impact.

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.

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 leadership

Executive communications

Stakeholder management

Matrixed org experience

Job description

Cengage Group is seeking a Senior Program Manager to join our Higher Education team. You will connect priorities across product, content, engineering and go-to-market to coordinate complex, multi-functional programs from planning through customer rollout.

This high-visibility role requires aligning discipline groups, managing dependencies and risks, and establishing repeatable planning and rollout approaches to drive measurable business impact.