Product Manager, Course; High School

Overview

At Macmillan Learning, we pursue innovation that transforms education. We seek team members who thrive on pushing boundaries, envision future possibilities, and build solutions that make a lasting impact. If you’re excited by testing new technologies, implementing transformative strategies, and thriving in a fast-paced, innovative environment, we’d love to hear from you.

The Product Manager, Course (High School) owns the vision, strategy, and execution of a portfolio of Bedford, Freeman, and Worth High School course areas, ensuring that each course offering meets the needs of teachers and students and leads to measurable impact on student success. This role treats the course as the product, driving innovations in content, pedagogy, and experience design. From ideation through validation and development, the Product Manager leads the strategic direction of course design and content development, partnering with market experts, researchers, designers, production teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver compelling and effective course experiences.

The Product Manager expresses ownership of prioritization, represents customer needs in decision-making, and synthesizes cross-functional input to ensure solutions are feasible, viable, and desirable.

Note:

We encourage all qualified candidates to apply — diverse experiences and backgrounds strengthen our team.

• Lead course ideation, validation, and scoping, ensuring alignment with teacher pedagogy and student engagement patterns.
• Evaluate priorities and alignment to OKRs based on qualitative and quantitative data, making recommendations to drive the discipline course vision and roadmap.
• Define and evolve the course strategy for a portfolio of disciplines. Catalogue and synthesize feedback from users and internal liaisons to manage a well-organized backlog.
• Evangelize the product backlog; coordinate cross-functionally with other product managers, program managers, learning resource group, and UX to complete multi-team initiatives and establish priority.
• Regularly analyze the competitive marketplace to understand customer solutions, course trends, and opportunities for guidance.
• Use data, customer feedback, and other data points to analyze impact and monitor, run data analysis, and report on key performance indicators for content assets.
• Translate validated ideas into course and content requirements, collaborating with UX, learning science, and editorial teams to ensure high-quality experiences.
• Obtain early feedback on solutions and define product features; communicate requirements to Product Designers, LRG, and development teams via clear written requirements.
• Track and drive cross-functional product rollout outside the product development team to facilitate successful product content use.
• Assess, measure, and present the impact of the team’s work to stakeholders, quantifying value and evaluating possible actions.
• Establish and maintain internal partner relationships to evaluate viability and support implementation through launch efforts.

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• 3+ years' experience designing and building new products and enhancing existing ones, preferably in the K-12 ed tech space.
• 2+ years' product management or business analyst experience.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and deliver on capabilities without direct control over all resources.
• Entrepreneurial drive and ability to achieve goals in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledgeable across product management, UX, editorial, sales, customer support, finance, and marketing.
• Strong problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with diverse stakeholders.
• Experience building trust and collaboration through interpersonal skills; strong technical abilities.
• Flexible team member willing to do what it takes to release an exceptional product.
• Exceptional customer relationship skills.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.

• Product Management Certification a plus.
• Product management or product design experience focused on K-12 markets.
• Passion for EdTech, teaching, or mission-driven learning…