Senior Program Manager - Higher Education Innovation

Cengage Group; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 117,000 - 187,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to align Higher Education initiatives, connecting priorities across disciplines and coordinating multi-functional programs from planning through rollout.

You will create repeatable planning approaches, manage dependencies and risks, and drive alignment with stakeholders while coordinating Product, Content, Engineering, GTM, and other teams for delivery and adoption of new capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex programs across product strategy, content, technology, and commercial teams.
• Ability to translate strategy into coordinated portfolios, roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Experience operating in a matrixed organization with distributed authority.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a portfolio view across disciplines, linking priorities and planned work for visibility.
• Identify common capability needs and coordinate prioritization across programs.
• Define objectives, track progress, and connect outcomes to business impact.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and decisions across workstreams and drive resolution.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams through delivery, launch, and adoption of capabilities.
• Facilitate communication across teams to remove blockers and drive execution.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Portfolio management

Executive communication

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Facilitation

Matrixed organization

Education

PMP

PgMP

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Cengage Group is seeking a Sr. Program Manager to align Higher Education initiatives, connecting priorities across disciplines and coordinating multi-functional programs from planning through rollout.

You will create repeatable planning approaches, manage dependencies and risks, and drive alignment with stakeholders while coordinating Product, Content, Engineering, GTM, and other teams for delivery and adoption of new capabilities.