[Hiring] Senior Director, Portfolio and Content @Cengage Group

Role Description

As the Senior Director of Portfolio and Content at Ed2go, you will lead a highly dedicated team to guide the development and implementation of our portfolio strategy. You’ll collaborate closely with the General Manager and Leadership Team to ensure our priorities align with business objectives, market opportunities, and learner needs.

• Lead the Portfolio Management organization, including leaders responsible for major segments of the ed2go catalog.
• Build a comprehensive insight into portfolio performance, market dynamics, customer and learner 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.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in portfolio management, content development, education technology, or workforce development.
• 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.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower employees.
• Eligibility to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program.
• Bonus target amount: 30% Annual Individual Target.
• Base pay range: $163,100.00 - $212,000.00 USD.

Company Description

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.