Product Management Dir

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. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com

Location: Remote

Who We Are

NWEA, a division of HMH, supports educators worldwide by providing responsive, evidence-based assessment solutions that illuminate learning needs and fuel student growth. For more than 40 years, NWEA has developed innovative pre-K–12 assessments, including its flagship assessment – MAP Growth, and professional learning that helps educators strengthen their practice and improve student outcomes. As part of its commitment to bring valuable insights to the education community, NWEA engages in research examining issues that shine a light on inequities and other barriers to academic opportunities.

What you’ll do:

Reporting to the SVP of Product Management, the Director of Product Management for MAP Growth Literacy is a senior product leader responsible for setting and executing the product vision, strategy, and commercial success of NWEA’s literacy assessment solutions. This role combines strong commercial orientation, deep understanding of literacy assessment and instruction, and people leadership to drive sustainable growth, market relevance, and customer impact.

This leader owns the strategy for MAP Growth literary assessments and related literacy needs, translating research-based literacy science, customer needs, and market dynamics into a compelling product roadmap that delivers measurable outcomes for students and strong financial performance for the business. The role manages and develops a team of product management direct reports and partners closely with Research, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, and external experts across literacy.

Primary Accountabilities for this role include:

1. Product Strategy & Vision (20%)
   • Own and evolve the product vision, strategy and roadmap for MAP Growth literacy solutions by leveraging customer insights, market demand, industry trends, competitive dynamics and organization objectives.
   • Identify portfolio investment opportunities across the suite of NWEA and HMH solutions in support of enterprise integration strategies.
   • Make clear, data-informed tradeoff decisions across features, investments, and timelines to ensure focus on measurable literacy outcomes.
2. Commercial & P&L Ownership (30%)
   • Own revenue growth, margin performance, and portfolio health ensuring strong alignment between product investments and business outcomes.
   • Partner with Product, Sales, Finance, and Product Marketing on pricing and growth strategies.
   • Develop business cases and monitor commercial performance metrics.
3. Product Leadership & Execution Excellence (20%)
   • Establish clear standards for product discovery, prioritization, and delivery to ensure work is focused on the highest-impact opportunities.
   • Drive disciplined roadmap execution with measurable outcomes, balancing innovation, usability, and psychometric rigor in partnership with Research and Engineering.
   • Ensure product decisions are grounded in data, user insights, and clear success metrics.
4. People Leadership (20%)
   • Lead, hire, mentor and inspire the product team supporting their success as individuals and as a collective high performing team. 
   • Set clear objectives and foster a collaborative environment to ensure the team’s success in delivering high-quality products.
5. Cross-Functional Leadership & Market Engagement (10%)
   • Nurture robust relationships with stakeholders with the ability to influence cross-functionally and align teams around priorities and tradeoff decisions.
   • Collaborate with Product Marketing on go-to-market strategy and launch activities.
   • Collaborate with Product leaders across HMH and NWEA to ensure alignment and integration across the broader assessment ecosystem.
   • Serve as product SME internally and externally.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 7–10 years product management experience
• 3+ years leading a product team
• Strong commercial orientation with proven ability to successfully manage product line financial outcomes.
• Proven ability to define, communicate, and deliver product roadmaps through cross-functional teams while managing competing priorities.
• Experience in the education assessment sector with demonstrated depth in literacy assessment and/or literacy instruction.
• Ability to anticipate and make timely decisions that result in effective products, programs, scalable processes, and business outcomes.
• Adept in professionally partnering with customers, colleagues, and industry experts to develop and maintain long-term supportive relationships.
• Demonstrates clear, concise, and compelling communication ability, combined with a proven track record of negotiating favorable outcomes among stakeholders to complex problems and scenarios.

Preferred but not necessary:

• Pragmatic product marketing certification, or similar
• Experience leading product migration or product integration projects

How We Work (Competencies)

• Instills Trust
• Cultivates Innovation
• Connects With Courage
• Action Oriented

Physical Requirements

• Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing)
• Constantly operate a computer
• Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings
• Ability to travel for work purposes up to 20%. 

Benefits and Salary Range

Salary Range - $110,000 to $145,000.  Our salary ranges are based on national averages.  We have wide ranges so we can be flexible and determine compensation based on a number of factors including the candidate’s skills, experience, education, and location.

Our Culture and Benefits - https://careers.hmhco.com/culture_benefits

Application Deadline:

August 20, 2026. 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.