Senior Director, Product Management & Content Transformation

McGraw Hill is dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. The Senior Director, Product Management - Content Transformation will lead the transformation of authoring and content development processes, ensuring high-quality curriculum delivery through effective management of tools and workflows, while integrating AI capabilities for enhanced efficiency.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the multi-year business plan and roadmap for School Content Transformation, including alignment with MH-wide content modernization initiatives
• Set the overall vision and roadmap for the transformation of MH School’s content development ecosystem, including print and digital
• Lead build/buy/partner decisions for content authoring, management, and production ecosystems
• Develop business cases and partner with leadership on investment decisions
• Establish a clear roadmap that is aligned to product milestones such that savings can be realized alongside implementation of tools
• Oversee the enablement of cross functional product, content and design teams in adopting new workflows and tools, to serve the scaling need with a focus on change management and post-launch KPI tracking
• Define, prioritize, and govern a multi-year roadmap for content management & tooling, workflows, and AI enablement
• Align roadmap across product portfolios, platform teams, and content organizations to ensure consistency and scale
• Drive prioritization tradeoffs based on business value, ROI, and operational impact
• Collaborate with other BU’s in standardization & alignment of parts of the ecosystem that can drive value enterprise wide
• Lead cross-functional discovery as needed to identify process inefficiencies and define standardized, scalable workflows
• Translate content development needs (capacity, speed, quality) into product and platform requirements
• Ensure tools and capabilities developed by Product/Platform teams are effectively adopted and integrated into content workflows
• Establish operating models and feedback loops between Content, Product, and Engineering teams
• Lead adoption of new systems and workflows across distributed content teams
• Enable teams through communication, training, and support to ensure sustained impact
• Identify, prioritize, and scale AI use cases across content generation, tagging, and workflow automation
• Partner with Data Science, Engineering, Legal, and Data Ethics teams to ensure responsible and scalable AI implementation
• In partnership with the CPO and CAO, define KPIs for content acceleration and establish measurement frameworks across portfolios
• Monitor performance and continuously improve tools, workflows, and adoption

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• 12+ years of progressive experience in Product Management, Digital Transformation, Content Platforms, or related leadership roles
• 6+ years of experience leading enterprise-scale product or content transformation initiatives
• A proven track record of leading large-scale publishing or content transformation in complex, global organizations
• Deep expertise in content strategy, digital publishing, and AI-driven innovation
• Ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from concept through execution
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority in a highly matrixed organization
• Experience modernizing legacy publishing operations and setting new benchmarks/processes
• Master's degree preferred
• Experience within education technology, digital publishing, learning platforms, media, or content-driven organizations
• Familiarity with AI/ML applications in content operations, personalization, and workflow automation
• Knowledge of accessibility standards, localization workflows, and global content operations
• Experience partnering with Data, AI, and Engineering teams on enterprise transformation initiatives
• Background in enterprise SaaS product management and platform modernization efforts
• Experience leading large-scale digital transformation or enterprise content migration programs
• Experience managing multi-year roadmaps and aligning stakeholders across Product, Engineering, and Operations
• Strong financial and operational acumen, including business case development and ROI analysis
• Ability to balance strategic vision with operational execution and delivery excellence
• Exceptional executive presence, with the ability to inspire, align, and mobilize cross-functional teams and stakeholders of all levels, including the MH Executive Leadership team
• Strong communication and facilitation skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to define and operationalize centralized strategies across distributed teams
• Strong understanding of content management and scalable capability development
• Comfortable challenging the status quo (while knowing what really matters from the past), pioneering new models, and shaping the future of content delivery