Sr Product Mgr. (K-6 Reading)

HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions, and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities.

HMH serves more than 50 million students and 4 million educators in 150 countries.

Senior Product Manager, Core K-6 Reading

Remote (may be perfomed in any state in the U.S.)

The Core K-6 Reading team at HMH is seeking an experienced Senior Product Manager to join our dynamic team.

The Senior Product Manager is a vital resource within the company and is responsible for defining key market problems to solve to drive customer success, achieve product-market fit, and deliver business goals. The Core K-6 Reading Senior Product Manager oversees Reading Core product line with an emphasis on strategic growth/profitability, iterative product enhancement, and life cycle management. Primary responsibilities include product line planning; guiding editorial and technology development of superior, differentiated product; advocating customer/sales needs in the product development process; guiding market research activities; and taking a portfolio view of life cycle management.

Additional responsibilities include participating in the creation of business cases, product launch and maintenance activities, and competitive selling support.

The successful Core K-6 Reading Senior Product Manager will be just as comfortable discussing priorities on a backlog as they are leading product presentations for customers. Their flexibility and connectedness are essential to managing numerous competing workstreams and stakeholders. Most importantly, Senior Product Managers are the voice of the customer and bring a combination of qualitative and quantitative data sets to support prioritization between and within product development.

Primary Responsibilities:

Business Strategy and Planning

Drive offering strategy and vision to deliver high quality solutions that meet customer needs and company goals

Leverage research (competition, academic, customer, etc.) and data (usage, efficacy, etc.) to define strategic vision in partnership with VP, Reading Product Management.

Develop business plans and product briefs that meet corporate teacher success goals and achieve market share growth

Oversee cross-functional teams to execute against plans

Manage product lifecycle including initial conceptualization, development, launch, maintenance and sunsetting products

Liaise between internal stakeholder teams (e.g. engineering, development, marketing, research, QA, sales, etc.) to collect and synthesize feedback, manage/align project schedules, and motivate

Make recommendations for revisions of and extensions for existing solutions, including product customization, new components, and pricing models

Research and report on market trends, competition, and the customer problem space to stakeholders as directed

Product Life Cycle Management

Analyze financial performance of an assigned product, including investment, revenue, and profitability

Analyze and evaluate market performance and product positioning of an assigned product

Implement tasks in the product launch and sunset process

Marketing Strategy

Work with Product Marketing on go-to-market strategy

Identify product positioning strategies. Partner with Product Marketing and Sales to ensure proper competitive positioning for product or solution.

Product Evangelist

Serve as product expert across the HMH organization

Provide support for the sales and services enablement process

Maintain strong, ongoing channels of communication with sales force and other functional areas within Services and across the company

What You’ll Need:

Bachelor’s degree

Minimum of 7 years of experience delivering products in K-12 education with a proven track record of success

Deep K-6 reading expertise

A demonstrated record of partnering with teams across an organization and influencing to achieve business results across multiple teams.

Business-savvy and strategic, and can deftly manage cross-organizational projects that require a sophisticated level of sensitivity and excellent judgement

A natural collaborator, equally comfortable talking tech with developers, user experience with designers, copy and positioning with product marketers, numbers with finance, and strategy with executive leadership

Knowledge of the K12 Education Market

Fluent use of applications and collaboration tools such as Smartsheet, Miro, Atlassian Jira/Confluence, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.

Strong communication and presentation skills, demonstrating an ability to communicate clearly to all stakeholders

Highly organized

Nice to Have:

MBA or Masters -preferably in education or in business management/marketing

HMH Product knowledge

Physical Requirements:

Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing).

Constantly operates a computer.

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

Salary Range: $90,000 - $100,000

Application Deadline: The application window for this position is anticipated to close on March 14th, 2025. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date but is not guaranteed.

HMH is fully committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, family status, marital status, pregnancy, gender identity, ethnic/national origin, ancestry, age, disability, military status, genetic predisposition, citizenship status, status as a disabled veteran, recently separated veteran, Armed Forces service medal veteran, other covered veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity. We actively participate in E-Verify.