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Cengage Group
Sr Learning Manager
LMS
Edtech.com's Summary
Cengage Group is hiring a Sr Learning Manager to help shape the strategy behind its higher education course materials and career-training curricula. The role sits within the Higher Ed Editorial and Learning Team, pairing learning science expertise with market insight to guide content decisions across a broad portfolio. Learning Managers here work closely with editorial, product marketing, and content teams to keep instructional design grounded in real student and instructor needs.
Highlights
- Inform and update author content and pedagogy using learning theory, currency research, and career-readiness standards
- Serve as the student-journey and discipline-level learning design expert across editorial, business strategy, and production teams
- Review new and existing content against Cengage's quality learning standards and research-based insights
- Apply agile, market-based approaches to recommend improvements to course materials and training curricula
- Collaborate with editorial managers, program associates, researchers, and external content creators
- Support new authors in aligning content with customer needs and Cengage's strategic vision
- Ensure alignment and consistency of instructional design decisions across the field
Sr Learning Manager Full Description
We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose - driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.
We trust in the power and delight of learning
At Cengage, our employees contribute directly to helping students across the globe experience the power and joy of learning. We are connected by our collective mission - promoting innovation that enables millions of learners to better their lives and fulfill their dreams through education.
Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our strong culture drives our business. We believe an inclusive workplace is essential to our company's success, learners, and well-being. We recognize the importance of diverse perspectives in everything we do. We work to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel encouraged to voice ideas and be authentic at work.
The Higher Ed Editorial and Learning Team develops a content and program investment strategy. This strategy sets the global standard for relevancy, comprehensiveness, and pedagogical design supported by research. Their work involves forming hypotheses, reviewing data, studying audience needs, and examining market, competitive, and industry trends. They test ideas and decide on content design using insights and evidence.
Learning Managers
Cengage empowers users to build rewarding careers with tailored learning experiences that link existing skills to necessary skills. Learning Managers (LMs) demonstrate their knowledge and experience in student and instructor needs, learning science, and curriculum development to enable the content strategy for their focus areas. Using an agile and strategic approach, market-based insights, and instructional design methodologies, LMs recommend and implement improvements to higher-education course materials and career-training curricula. LMs collaborate with a wide range of team members including editorial managers, program associates, content project managers, researchers, product marketing managers, authors/content creators, external vendors, and more.
What you'll do here
You will spend your time sharing information, assessing, planning, designing, and reviewing higher education materials. You will also support new authors to ensure our content and learning experiences align with customers' needs and Cengage's strategic vision. You will:
- Inform and/or update author content and pedagogy with universal and portfolio-specific perspective based in learning theory, currency, and career readiness.
- Serve as the student journey and discipline-level learning design expert, collaborating with colleagues in editorial, business strategy, marketing, authoring and content creation, and production.
- Review new and existing content and update plans against the editorial team strategy, Cengage's quality learning standards, research-based insights, and established protocols.
- Design digital content to fill gaps and seize opportunities for improving learning, based on insights into platform functionalities, user experience and satisfaction, and content usage statistics.
- Design and advocate for improvements in accessibility, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of content and authoring.
- Collaborate with authors, subject matter experts, industry partners, and team members throughout the curriculum development process.
- Establish and maintain field tools and guidelines for field content creation.
- Support freelance and vendor content creators to ensure content quality and timely delivery, and develop new authoring talent for the field.
- Apply emerging learning trends and discipline-specific guidelines to continuously innovate and improve learning designs.
Skills you will need here
- Cultivate innovation and quality in assigned rigors and course areas.
- Apply learning science and digital learning methodologies to assigned fields.
- Communicate optimally, through strong verbal and written skills, including audience-centric analysis, persuasion, and documentation.
- Collaborate with peers using interpersonal savvy in problem-solving, making trade-offs, and building rapport.
- Develop authoring talent and content creators to meet current and future organizational goals.
- Handle complex, long-range projects with multiple partners in a dynamic remote-work environment.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, and Excel; experience with applied AI.
- 3-5 years of full-time work experience, preferably with experience in a corporate environment.
Preferred skills and experience
- Educational or professional background in instructional design, learning design, or a related field.
- Experience in designing inclusive content for diverse audiences.
- Teaching experience in higher education.
- Experience in Advanced Computing and/or Math course areas.
About Cengage
Cengage is a worldwide education technology firm serving millions of learners. We provide affordable, quality digital products and services designed to prepare students for jobs. For over 100 years, we have promoted the power and enjoyment of learning with trusted and engaging content. Our markets include higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching, and research across the globe.
Compensation
The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location.
$77,100.00 - $100,200.00 USD
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