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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.
What You’ll Do Here
ed2go is one of Cengage’s most successful and fastest-growing businesses, delivering career-focused education that helps adult learners build skills, advance professionally, and pursue new opportunities. Over the past several years, ed2go has delivered sustained market-leading growth while expanding profitability through disciplined portfolio strategy, operational excellence, and a relentless focus on learner, partner, and market needs.
The Senior Director, Portfolio & Content leads ed2go’s portfolio management, content development, and portfolio operations organizations and ensures these capabilities continue to serve as engines of profitable growth and competitive differentiation. You’ll collaborate closely with the General Manager and Ed2go Leadership Team to ensure our priorities align with growth expectations, market opportunities, and learner needs.
Lead the Portfolio Management team (online course product managers) and the content development team (learning design, media design, and production management) who collectively own our online course catalog of more than 1,000 programs.
Build insight into portfolio performance, market dynamics, customer needs, competitive activity, and emerging opportunities.
Identify and prioritize opportunities for new programs, category expansion, content modernization, partnerships, and portfolio optimization.
Establish clear investment frameworks that enable disciplined decisions about where ed2go should build, buy, partner, expand, modernize, or exit.
Guide portfolio lifecycle management, balancing investment in new growth with optimization and maintenance of the existing catalog.
Use financial, market, customer, and operational data to evaluate portfolio performance and inform investment decisions.
Partner with Finance and business leadership to ensure portfolio decisions support sustained revenue growth, margin expansion, and long-term value creation.
Establish and coordinate portfolio performance mechanisms, operating rhythms, and reviews that provide access to results, risks, opportunities, and strategic tradeoffs.
What You’ll Bring
We are looking for a leader with significant experience in portfolio management (course product management), and content development, ideally in education technology or workforce development. You should have demonstrated success leading a large, complex portfolio or product organization with meaningful revenue and profitability accountability.
Strong business and financial competence, including experience using market, customer, operational, and financial data to make investment and prioritization decisions.
Proven ability to develop and complete portfolio strategies that drive sustained growth, improve portfolio performance, and build competitive advantage.
Experience leading other leaders and multi-layer organizations, with a strong track record of developing talent and building leadership capability.
Outstanding communication skills and the ability to translate complex information into clear context, recommendations, priorities, and decisions.
Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or equivalent experience preferred.
Experience leading/managing (accountable) product portfolios exceeding $100M / Year in revenue
Experience leading large teams (40 + employees) with multiple levels of people management (Managing Directors, Sr. Managers, Managers, and Supervisors who inturn manage individual contributors)
Experience developing and launching growth strategies that produce material net new annual revenue in their first 3 years in market ($5M - $10M)
Experience leading in organizations with double digit revenue growth goals
Experience leveraging products into market adjacencies with meaningful revenue/enrollment growth
Join us and lead the transformation of content development through AI, automation, and innovative ways of working. Your leadership will ensure that ed2go continues to deliver strong, profitable growth while remaining scalable, aligned with market demands, and AI-enabled. This is your chance to define a lasting impact on the future of education!
Cengage 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.
Cengage 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 [email protected].
About Cengage
Cengage, 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.
Compensation
At 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.
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. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.
In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below.
30% Annual: Individual Target$163,100.00 - $212,000.00 USD
Skills Required
- Significant experience in portfolio management, content development, education technology, or workforce development
- Demonstrated success leading a large, complex portfolio or product organization
- Meaningful revenue and profitability accountability
- Strong business and financial competence, including using market, customer, operational, and financial data for investment and prioritization decisions
- Proven ability to develop and complete portfolio strategies that drive sustained growth, improve portfolio performance, and build competitive advantage
- Experience leading other leaders and multi-layer organizations
- Strong track record of developing talent and building leadership capability
- Outstanding communication skills and ability to translate complex information into clear recommendations, priorities, and decisions
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree or equivalent experience
Cengage Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cengage Group and has not been reviewed or approved by Cengage Group.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid parental leave and company-designated wellness time off (including a year-end week off) stand out as notable time-away benefits. Flexible work positioning (virtual-first/remote-first) further increases the practical value of time-off and work-life support.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Workplace mental-health support appears to be a meaningful part of the rewards package, reinforced by external recognition for mental-health practices. Wellness-oriented programs and designated wellness days contribute additional lifestyle value beyond cash pay.
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Inclusive Benefits Coverage — Benefits and policies signal strong inclusion positioning, supported by external equality recognition. Family-related supports (e.g., fertility resources and parent support) also broaden who can benefit from the package.
Cengage Group Insights
What We Do
With more than 100 years of serving learners, Cengage Group is a global edtech company that enables student choice. No matter how, where, when or why someone wants to learn, our portfolio of education businesses supports all students, from middle school through graduate school and skills education, with quality content and technology. Collectively, our three business units – Cengage Academic, Cengage Work, and Cengage Select – help millions of students each year in more than 125 countries achieve their education and career goals and lead choice-filled lives. Visit us at www.cengagegroup.com
Why Work With Us
Our employee experience centers around a shared purpose: to help millions of learners achieve their dreams and improve their lives through education. Whether you want to make a difference in the world or start a fulfilling career in edtech, we focus on providing our employees with meaningful work while empowering them with resources to succeed.
