Director – Teaching & Learning Strategy
Macmillan
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Alaska, Hawaii, Mississippi, Nevada, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $125,000 - $145,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Direct the Teaching & Learning Strategists' efforts to uncover, synthesize, and communicate pedagogical insights that inform investment and market strategy
- Define and prioritize problems to solve across disciplines and markets, ensuring the most pressing instructor and student needs are surfaced
- Partner with Program and Product leadership to translate field insights into actionable recommendations that shape product roadmaps and adoption strategies
- Oversee the cultivation of instructor relationships across disciplines, ensuring broad representation of pedagogical perspectives
- Support team members in building and maintaining strong relationships with customers, key faculty partners, and advocates in partnership with the Program and Marketing teams
- Collaborate with leaders in the Sales, Marketing, Product, and Program teams to ensure pedagogical insights inform go-to-market strategies and messaging
- Provide strategic support for class tests, pilots, and sales tools to ensure pedagogical integrity and intended business impact
- Lead horizon scanning for emerging instructional trends, technology innovations, and best practices in teaching and learning, identifying opportunities to differentiate through pedagogical design
- Translate competitor and market intelligence into actionable insights that inform strategic direction
- Lead, mentor, and empower the Teaching & Learning Strategists to expand their product knowledge, business expertise, communication skills, and strategic impact
- Model inclusive leadership that values diverse pedagogical perspectives and encourages innovation
- Represent Macmillan Learning’s pedagogical leadership internally and externally through strategic initiatives, presentations, and partnerships
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree
- Experience in a business serving higher education customers
- Experience successfully communicating complex information verbally and in writing with a variety of stakeholders
- Experience developing teams in newly established roles within a business
- Teaching experience in a higher education context (preferred)
- Experience supporting customers using educational technology solutions (preferred)
- Curriculum design experience (preferred)
- Proven ability to lead innovation-driven initiatives that introduce new instructional approaches, models, or market differentiators based on emerging trends in teaching and learning (preferred)
Benefits
- Competitive pay and bonus plan
- Generous Health Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Contributions to your 401k retirement account through Fidelity
- Generous paid time off, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays (Spring Reset Day, Juneteenth, Indigenous People's Day, Election Day, and more!)
- Employee Assistance Program, Education Assistance Program
- 100% employer-paid life and AD&D insurance
- And much more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
curriculum designeducational technology solutionsinstructional approachesmarket strategypedagogical insightsproduct roadmapsgo-to-market strategieshorizon scanningstrategic initiativescommunication skills
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringrelationship buildingcollaborationinclusive leadershipinnovationcommunicationproblem solvingcustomer supportteam development
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree