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We are bonded by our shared purpose - driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.\nWe trust in the power and delight of learning\nAt 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.\nOur culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery\nOur 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. We meet these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives woven into our daily work. For more information, see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/.\nThe 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.\nLearning Managers\nCengage 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. Our LMs are curious, tenacious, dedicated to sharing ideas, and committed to questioning the status quo in learning.\nWhat you'll do here\nYou 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:\nInform and/or update author content and pedagogy with universal and portfolio-specific perspective based in learning theory, currency, and career readiness.\nServe as the student journey and discipline-level learning design expert, collaborating with colleagues in editorial, business strategy, marketing, authoring and content creation, and production.\nReview new and existing content and update plans against the editorial team strategy, Cengage’s quality learning standards, research-based insights, and established protocols. Ensure alignment, consistency, and appropriateness across the field.\nDesign 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.\nDesign and advocate for improvements in accessibility, equity, and inclusivity in all aspects of content and authoring.\nCollaborate with authors/subject matter experts/industry partners and team members throughout the curriculum development process, seeking out varied perspectives and expertise.\nEstablish and maintain field tools and guidelines for field content creation/creators.\nSupport freelance and vendor content creators as necessary to ensure content quality and timely delivery. Develop new authoring talent for the field and learning needs and understanding of digital product and use of authoring tools.\nApply emerging learning trends and discipline-specific guidelines to continuously innovate and improve learning designs. Stay current with EdTech and subject area trends, key competitive developments, learning science research, and content design standards.\nSkills you will need here\nCultivate innovation and quality in assigned rigors and course areas, identifying chances to improve the lives of our learners through quality learning design.\nApply learning science and digital learning methodologies to assigned fields.\nCommunicate optimally, through strong verbal and written skills, including audience-centric analysis, persuasion, influence, and documentation.\nCollaborate with peers using interpersonal savvy in problem-solving, making trade-offs, and building rapport.\nDevelop authoring talent/content creators to meet current and future organizational goals.\nHandle complex, long-range projects with multiple partners in a dynamic remote-work environment.\nProficiency in Microsoft Office products including Outlook, Word, Excel, and file-sharing tools; experience with applied AI.\n3-5 years of full-time work experience, preferably with experience in a corporate environment.\nProven dedication to continuous professional improvement, learning, and a growth mindset.\nPreferred skills and experience\nEducational or professional background in instructional design, learning design, or related field.\nExperience in designing inclusive content for diverse audiences.\nTeaching experience in higher education.\nExperience in Advanced Computing and/or Math course areas.\nAbout Cengage\nCengage 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. Currently, we also offer integrated digital platforms. Our markets include higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching, and research across the globe. Through scalable technologies such as MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners seeking to better their lives and achieve their aspirations through education.\nCengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.\nCengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at .\nAbout Cengage\nCengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.\nCompensation\nAt Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.\nThe 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. 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