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McGraw Hill

Business Analyst (Product Management)

🇺🇸 Remote - US

🕑 Contractor

💰 $95K - $110K

💻 Product Development

🗓️ June 18th, 2025

K-12

Edtech.com's Summary

McGraw Hill is hiring a Business Analyst (Product Management) to contribute to the Actively Learn platform by collaborating with cross-functional teams and managing workflows to deliver innovative learning solutions. The role involves gathering user feedback, prioritizing backlogs, and ensuring high-quality product delivery that enhances educational experiences.

Highlights
  • Collaborate with product leadership, marketing, content authors, and customers to analyze user feedback and inform product decisions.
  • Establish project goals aligned with product strategy and manage milestone delivery.
  • Maintain and prioritize backlogs balancing scope and stakeholder needs.
  • Work alongside Program Managers and Engineering Leads to manage dependencies and promote team efficiency.
  • Oversee end-to-end digital experience quality and meet service level agreements for defect triage.
  • Lead product rollout strategies, create documentation, and provide training to maximize adoption.
  • Require 2+ years as a Business Analyst or Product Owner with Agile software team experience.
  • Strong skills in communicating technical concepts and working with diverse stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience includes educational technology and enterprise-scale platform software.
  • Compensation ranges from $95,000 to $110,000 annually with potential bonus and benefits.

Business Analyst (Product Management) Full Description

Business Analyst (Product Management)

  • United States
  • Technology
  • School
  • Remote

Overview

Impact the Moment
At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher’s time and a student’s learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life. The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.

How Can You Make an Impact?
As a Business Analyst on the Actively Learn platform, you will play a vital role in delivering innovative solutions that empower educators and inspire students. Join a team dedicated to transforming teaching and learning experiences through thoughtful product design, innovative solutions, and quality execution. You will bridge the gap between technical teams, product leadership, customers, and content teams. By gathering requirements, managing workflows, and ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery, you will directly contribute to impactful learning experiences and efficient solutions for teachers. Your ability to prioritize, organize, and communicate effectively will enable agile teams to deliver solutions that truly make a difference for our users.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with and end date of 07/15/2026.

What you will be doing:
  • Collaborate with product leadership, marketing, content authors, and customers to identify and synthesize user feedback. Conduct competitive analysis, review usage analytics, and leverage customer interaction data to inform product decisions.
  • Establish project goals aligned with the product strategy and vision, while setting clear milestones to ensure incremental and consistent value delivery.
  • Maintain and prioritize an organized backlog, balancing scope, tradeoffs, and stakeholder needs.
  • Partner across functional groups with Program Managers and Engineering Leads tomanage dependencies, promote team health, and unlock delivery.
  • Oversee end-to-end digital experiences, meet SLAs for defect triage, and ensure high technical quality.
  • Lead rollout strategies, create documentation, and provide training support to maximize user outcomes and adoption.
 
What you’ll need to be successful:
  • 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or Product Owner, leading Agile software teams and delivering quantifiable outcomes for your users.
  • Proven track record of solving complex user challenges and shipping user-centered products at scale.
  • Ability to grasp underlying technical design and articulate product requirements—whether UI workflows or API endpoints—in terms engineers can immediately act on.
  • Exceptional communicator, able to translate technical concepts for varied audiences.
  • A natural ability to work across teams and foster alignment among diverse stakeholders.
  • Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, and conflict-management skills.

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Passion for or experience in educational technology and K-12 markets.
  • Experience with enterprise-scale or platform software.
 
Why McGraw Hill? 
The work you do at McGraw Hill will be work that matters. We are collectively designing content that will build the future of education. Play your part and experience a sense of fulfilment that will inspire you to even greater heights.
 
The pay range for this position is between $95,000 - $110,000 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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