Senior Academic Designer

Overview

Make an Impact! At McGraw Hill we create best-in-class, next‑generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide from kindergarten through graduate school. Our goal is to accelerate student success through intuitive and effective learning tools and content that maximize a teacher’s time and a student’s learning experience. We do all of this in a supportive, collaborative environment where you can grow your career in a way that fits into your life.

How can you make an impact? McGraw Hill, the leading provider of digital and print educational resources, is looking for a Senior Academic Designer, Literacy/Primary Grades for our School division. Senior Academic Designers are content and curriculum experts. They assemble high-quality content based on specific product requirements for programs and understanding the solution design. They collaborate with the Academic Design Directors, Academic Design Managers, and Product Managers to help develop the solution design (both conceptualization and implementation).

Depending on project needs, Senior Academic Designers are asked to take on specific project assignments, working with a small team of Academic Designers throughout the various stages of product development.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States. This is a Project Status Worker (PSW) role with an end date of 7/31/2026.

• Plan and develop content (including learning objectives, scope/sequence, tables of contents, lessons, videos, and teacher resources) for teacher and student materials—including print, digital, and media projects
• Develop and finalize prototypes, scope and sequence, project proposals, and project scope documentation, as needed
• Train, mentor, and provide feedback to more junior Academic Designers on guidelines and expectations around content development, documentation, and planning
• Act as the point of contact between a vendor, internal engineering teams, contractors, and Academic Design teams with some decision‑making authority, including ensuring timeliness and quality of work
• Coordinate with Project Managers, Product Design, Production and other cross‑functional groups to establish workflows and maintain communication about project schedules/status
• Demonstrate strong understanding of elementary (Grades K-2) Reading/Language Arts pedagogical issues
• Produce and guide more junior team members to produce accurate, error‑free, high‑quality products that meet curriculum standards (including CCSS and other state standards), project scope, and market requirements and that display appropriate content, reading level, grammar, and style
• Stay up to date on emerging educational/curriculum trends, educational technology, and research within field and adjacent to field

• Holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education, literacy, linguistics, or a related field, with a minimum of four years of experience in literacy curriculum development and educational publishing focused on Grades K-2, and subject matter expertise in foundational literacy skills including decodability of texts.
• Brings teaching experience as an advantage and demonstrates the ability to create and visualize content for various delivery formats and classroom settings.
• Is highly organized, goal‑oriented, and collaborative, with the ability to mentor others and provide guidance, direction, and leadership while understanding concerns, needs, and issues raised by junior team members.
• Creates novel solutions through cross‑functional problem solving, proactively identifies risks, and develops appropriate contingency plans.
• Understands how research, pedagogy, and best practices apply to product design and applies broad perspectives across the discipline.
• Maintains strong attention to detail and a commitment to accuracy, quality, and on‑time delivery, with deep knowledge of industry and subject‑area content development practices, standards (including CCSS, B.E.S.T., and TEKS), and academic and pedagogical trends, and can drive innovation in teams and products.
• Displays initiative,…