Sr Technical Program Manager, Consolidation Program

Cengage Group; Ohio; On-site; USD 117,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cengage Group is seeking a Sr. Technology Program Manager in Ohio to lead the Consolidations program across the organization. You will drive planning, dependencies, and multi-team collaboration to ensure successful delivery from business case to customer migration.

The role emphasizes visibility, effective communication with senior leadership, and strong stakeholder alignment to deliver business value and outcomes through Agile/SAFe practices and well-defined program plans.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-functional technology programs from planning through delivery.
• Experience coordinating go-to-market, go-live, and post-launch support.
• Ability to manage end-to-end delivery across enterprise, technology, and business teams.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management across technical and business areas.
• Experience communicating program status, risks, and recommendations to leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and organizational skills.
• Curiosity about business objectives and outcomes to deliver real value.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate multi-functional programs from planning through delivery, including launch, hypercare, and transition to ongoing support.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Go-to-Market, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and business teams to deliver technology solutions.
• Develop and maintain program plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and action items across workstreams.
• Monitor progress, communicate status, and raise risks to keep initiatives on track.
• Ensure work is prioritized, well-defined, and aligned with goals.
• Guide program investment planning, including rationale, value, and budgets vs. actuals.
• Support planning, release readiness, and go-to-market activities for launches.
• Facilitate communication across teams to remove blockers and drive execution.
• Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and partners to support delivery and adoption.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Agile / SAFe delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Risk & dependency management

Budgeting & financials

Communication & facilitation

Education

PMP or PgMP certification

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We believe in the power and joy of learning

At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.

What you’ll do here:

We are looking for an accomplished and dedicated Sr. Technology Program Manager to join our team. This role is responsible for leading our Consolidations program that spans all areas of our organization. From business case through customer migration, success depends on the ability to cut through complexity, keep teams aligned and focused, and manage multi-functional dependencies.

This role is high-visibility and will offer challenges in problem solving, collaboration and communication, cross-team orchestration, dependency management, and day-to-day program leadership.

You will ensure each initiative is organized, objectives and key results are clear and tracked, dependencies are managed, and all key partners can tell a consistent story of progress.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate multi-functional programs from planning through delivery, including launch, release, hypercare, and transition to ongoing support.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Go-to-Market, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and business teams to deliver technology solutions and business capabilities.
• Build and continuously improve the approach for planning, tracking, and managing capability rollouts, creating greater consistency and visibility across initiatives.
• Develop and maintain program plans, timelines, dependencies, risks, and action items across multiple workstreams.
• Monitor program progress, communicate status, and raise risks or issues to help keep initiatives on track.
• Help ensure work is prioritized, well-defined, and aligned with project and business goals.
• Guide and contribute to program investment planning, including defining the rationale, expected value and outcomes, developing financial assumptions, tracking budgets against actuals, and evaluating results.
• Support planning, release readiness, and go-to-market activities to help move initiatives from ideas through launch.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across teams to remove blockers and drive execution.
• Coordinate with internal teams, vendors, and external partners to support successful delivery and adoption of technology solutions.

Qualifications:

• Experience in technical project or program management, technology delivery, technology operations, or a related field.
• Experience coordinating multi-functional technology initiatives from planning through launch, including go-to-market, go-live, and post-launch support.
• Ability to manage end-to-end delivery across enterprise, technology, and business teams, ensuring alignment beyond the technical release.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across technical and business organizations.
• Experience communicating program status, risks, and recommendations to team members and senior leadership.
• Strong facilitation, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Curiosity to understand the business objectives and desired outcomes of initiatives, ensuring execution remains focused on delivering value not just completing tasks.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe delivery frameworks.
• Proficiency with Jira, Confluence, or similar delivery tools.

Preferred

• PMP, PgMP, Scrum Master, SAFe, or similar certification.
• Experience managing vendors and third-party partners.

Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.

Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at .

About Cengage

Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.

Compensation

At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.

In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.

20% Annual: Individual Target$117,000.00 - $160,000.00 USD