Product Management Director

Location: Remote (US)

Join a team committed to representing and addressing the needs of teachers. As a Professional Services Product Management Director, you will be responsible for monitoring the K-12 education market landscape, identifying innovative ways to engage and energize teachers as learners in increasingly high-tech schools, defining a professional learning product vision that supports teachers using HMH’s teaching and learning solutions, and developing effective go-to-market strategy. Our ideal teammate will maintain constant focus on product-market fit, will have experience working agilely and collaboratively across stakeholder groups, and will be an articulate champion for teachers.

Primary Responsibilities:
Results-Oriented Business Planning

• Drive vision, business plan, and offering strategy for a portfolio of high-quality professional learning solutions
• Define market and business requirements for new digital solutions that satisfy customer needs and revenue/profit goals.
• Leverage research (competition, academic, customer, etc.) and data (usage, efficacy, etc.) to define strategic vision, set goals, measure key results, and support delivery of high quality products
• Deliver key results on schedule, on budget, and in line with customer needs and corporate goals
• Oversee cross-functional teams to execute against plans
• Liaise across internal stakeholder groups (e.g. sales, engineering, product development, marketing, research, etc.) to collect and synthesize feedback, manage/align project schedules, and motivate teams

• Research and report on market trends, competitive issues and products, and the customer problem space to stakeholders as directed
• Make recommendations for revisions and extensions of existing solutions, including product customization, new components, and pricing model

Product Evangelist

• Create and maintain strong, ongoing channels of communication with sales force and other functional areas within Services and across the company.
• Serve as a primary line of business expert across the HMH organization
• Provide active support for the sales and revenue enablement process
• Assist with key customers

Portfolio Life Cycle Management

• Manage product lifecycle from initial conceptualization through authorization, development, launch, maintenance, and sunsetting
• Analyze financial performance of an assigned portfolio, including investment, revenue, and profitability
• Analyze and evaluate market performance and product positioning of an assigned product
• Benchmark performance of an assigned product against competition and market; implement pricing plans in line with product strategy

Marketing Strategy

• Work across Product Marketing teams to plan go-to-market strategy for professional learning solutions
• Identify product positioning strategies. Partner with Product Marketing, Revenue Enablement, Sales teams to ensure proper competitive positioning for product or solution.

Requirements:

• BS/BA in related discipline with approximately 7+ years of related industry or functional experience
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex new product launches and/or large-scale transformational initiatives
• Exceptional presentation skills, both in person and online
• Technical background; experience with technical product management and/or Agile development methodology
• Knowledge of the K12 Core, Supplemental, and Professional Learning Market
• Proficient use of Smartsheet, Excel, Word, PowerPoint
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Highly organized

Preferred:

• MBA or Masters strongly preferred--preferably in Business Management, Education, or Marketing
• Experience in developing and/or delivering K12 EdTech professional learning solutions
• HMH Product knowledge

Physical Requirements

• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).
• The person in this position needs to move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer.
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings.
• Availability to travel: less than 10% of the time

Benefits and Salary Range:

Salary Range: $108,000 - 135,000 plus bonus. Our salary ranges are based on national averages.  We have wide ranges so we can be flexible and determine compensation based on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education and location.

Benefits: Careers at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company (hmhco.com)

ABOUT US:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company dedicated to changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. As a leading provider of pre-K–12 education content, services, and cutting-edge technology solutions across a variety of media, HMH enables learning in a changing landscape. HMH is uniquely positioned to create engaging and effective educational content and experiences from early childhood to beyond the classroom.  HMH serves more than 50 million students in over 150 countries worldwide, while its award-winning children's books, novels, non-fiction, and reference titles are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.

For more information, visit http://careers.hmhco.com  

PLEASE NOTE:  

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.