Overview

Build the Future

At McGraw Hill, we are dedicated to delivering digital learning experiences that transform education for learners and educators. Our focus is on creating seamless, impactful products that truly benefit our users while supporting growth and collaboration across teams. We foster a culture that values innovation, teamwork, and a balance between career growth and personal well-being.

How can you make an impact?

This role is instrumental in developing holistic experiences for McGraw Hill’s products and pivotal in shaping our design strategy, fostering collaboration across teams, and driving scalable, impactful content solutions that support K-12 learners and educators. 

As Principal Learning Architect, you will apply and model your deep expertise in systems thinking, content innovation, and instructional design. You will be heavily involved in product Discovery work and will translate content insights from Discovery into execution during Delivery, ensuring the work stays aligned with initial vision. 

You will work across the Product Experience team and in collaboration with product portfolios to enhance and increase common and connected experiences and bring governance to approaches and guidelines.  

What You’ll Do:

Strategic Leadership: Define and facilitate the content strategy for digital and print experiences, ensuring alignment with business objectives, user needs, and educational standards. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Using agile methodologies, collaborate at the product level with experience design, instructional design, product management, academic design, product marketing, engineering, and research teams to deliver cohesive, innovative content experiences. Collaborate with technical product management and product owners to define requirements for platform and authoring tool enhancements that support the digital content experience of the program. 

Human-Centered Design Advocacy: Champion human-centered design principles across the organization, establishing best practices and frameworks for collaborative, user-centered workflows.  

Divergent & Convergent Work: Facilitate design sprints and related workshops.  Lead rapid prototyping to learn quickly what would deliver value to students and teachers. Model for others how to create content flows and wireframes that showcase how a user will move through the content experience.  Lead consensus building and content definition work for products and their components.

Instructional Design Principles:

Model and train others on how to facilitate content strategy decisions that optimize student learning outcomes. Take a lead role in the development of instructional and logic models. Guide teams in navigating both macro and micro content, producing a blueprint for a consistent, scalable, and effective holistic learning experience.

Implementation & Content Models: Apply knowledge of Instructional design and assessment strategy to address the needs of diverse learners. Coach others through the process of designing hybrid (print and digital) learning experiences that guide creation of outcome-driven educational solutions, weaving together instructional models and journey maps to envision the experience through macro and micro implementation models.

Content System Design: Facilitate defining the strategy for complex content systems, balancing usability, functionality, scalability, and accessibility. Mentor others in information architecture, user flows, and approaches for creating scalable content systems for complex products. 

Team Leadership and Mentorship: Guide and mentor senior-level learning architects, instructional designers and cross-functional teams, fostering professional growth and elevating the organization’s design capabilities. Contribute to training documentation and presentations for learning architecture practice.

Research-Driven Insights: Leverage user research, market analytics, and data to inform and iterate on design strategies, ensuring alignment with user and business needs. 

Metrics and Impact Measurement: Define success metrics, evaluate design strategies, and use data to continuously refine and enhance content experiences. 

Industry Trend Monitoring: Stay ahead of design, education, and technology trends, applying insights to influence organizational strategy and foster a culture of continuous improvement..

What you bring:

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Instructional Design, UX, Content Strategy, or a related field.  
• 8+ years in content strategy or instructional design, with at least 3 years in a leadership role; experience with K-12 print and digital teaching and learning products preferred. Experience with authoring tools, metadata, accessibility, learning management systems, and content management systems. 
• Leadership and Influence: Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at all levels. 
• Analytical Skills: Strong ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data to inform and drive decision-making. 
• Adaptability & Agility: Experience leading cross functional teams through times of uncertainty, ambiguity, and rapid change with a message of iterative growth and learning.
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding storytelling and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate complex design strategies to executive audiences. 

Here’s what we offer:  

At McGraw Hill, you will be empowered to make a real impact on a global scale. Every day your individual efforts can contribute to the lives of millions.     

The pay range for this position is between $72,000- $105,000 annually. However, base pay 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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