Manager, Digital Academic Design, Ela 6-12

Overview
Impact the Moment
Could your creative thinking build the future? The Manager, Digital Academic Design, ELA 6-12 role at McGraw Hill will make a difference for learners and educators across the world. Our team needs a strong leader with new ideas who connects with their team in innovative ways and encourages their team to collaborate and share ideas that will impact the future of education!
Your impact on the team:

• Makes the tough people decisions necessary to ensure current and future success; proactively creates growth and training plans to keep employee skills current
• Stays up to date in the field – both industry and market; proactively establishes external networks
• Acts as a coach or mentor, developing direct reports by providing feedback and direction
• Demonstrates a strong collaborative style in working with peers within and outside own portfolio and function
• Builds an inclusive climate of trust and appreciation for those who think differently and come with different backgrounds

What you will be doing:

• Managing a growing group of Digital Academic Designers
• Generates creative solutions by bringing talented people together; works to improve new ideas rather than discouraging them
• Decisions are guided by resource availability and functional scope; develops and manages operational initiatives to deliver tactical results
• Maintains strong relationships with senior leaders and peers across functional areas
• Uses knowledge and feedback from an external perspective to improve products and services; articulates what customer or market problem needs to be solved when making recommendations
• Managing a wide group of outside vendors
• Collaborating with a cross functional team to build a digital program, from the ground up.
• Working collaboratively with a cross functional team including, but not limited to, product management, subject matter experts, academic design, project management, and software development.

We're looking for someone with:

• Instructional Design expertise in regards to research, theory, and application in the field of education.
• Competency with HTML and CSS
• Broad experience with various design authoring tools
• Creation and Implementation of interactive materials, multimedia, and learning games in an educational setting.
• A bachelors degree in Education, English Language Arts or a related subject
• Experience working with multiple LMS’s

How we Work: We are a company focused on continuous learning and growth. These five pillars are critical to our hyper-learning culture at McGraw Hill School.

• Creative, Innovative, & Emergent Thinking: We tackle challenging problems and make decisions in favor of the business. We are willing to innovate and not do things as they have always been done.
• Big We: We respect one another and genuinely care about our teammates. We work best as one team, not in silos.
• Listening to Learn: We listen to one another and collaborate for success. We realize the capabilities of and trust our team members.
• Ask Learning Questions: We value differences of approach as opportunities for learning and growth. We seek to truly understand others.
• An Idea Meritocracy: We foster an inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable speaking openly and having challenging conversations. The best idea should always win, regardless of origin.

The pay range for this position is between $80,000-$100,000 annually, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical and/or other benefits, depending on the position offered.  Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
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