Technical Product Manager

Impact the Moment

When was the last time you experienced the impact of your work? Our Technical Product Management team thrives on building meaningful relationships with educators and learners. With that comes the unique opportunity to touch lives across the world and experience first-hand the difference your hard work makes

How can you make an impact?

As a Technical Product Manager, you will act as a product owner for software development teams delivering strategic value for McGraw Hill's K-12 business and Open Learning platform. This role provides product vision for the development teams, leadership of cross-functional implementation coordination, and builds trust across teams of technologists, user experience designers, business stakeholders, and customers.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

What can you expect from the position?

• Collaborate with other Technical Product Managers and stakeholders across the company to uncover, analyze and propose potential solutions for the key problems to be solved.
• Define and communicate a clear vision for the Agile team's work, and value milestones.
• Maintain a groomed backlog and prioritize stories for development, effectively managing scope and trade-offs.
• Partner with Program Managers and Engineering Leads to promote and support the Agile health of your team; ensure cross team dependencies are identified and managed; and ensure timely, high quality software releases.
• Triage incoming software defects and queries from internal and external customers, following up to ensure defect resolutions meet SLA.
• Showcase, document and provide training support for the Open Learning platform and the software your team builds.

What can you bring to the role?

• 2+ Years of Product Management or equivalent experience.
• Experience leading Agile- based, software product development teams solving complex challenges.
• Success coordinating, collaborating and negotiating across teams of software developers, quality engineers, designers, and customer-facing teams.
• A track record of shipping intuitive, user-centered products at scale.
• Ability to handle complexity, process new information quickly, and manage dynamic projects with competing resources and priorities.
• You are a self-starter who works proactively to understand and address the challenges/opportunities ahead of you and your team.
• Strong communication skills. You are comfortable presenting information tailored to varied audiences. Effectively translating technical ideas to non-technical professionals and vice versa.
• Passion for, or experience in, educational technology or K-12 education preferred.
• Enterprise/Platform Software experience preferred.