Director, Software Engineering

Build the Future

Do you enjoy setting direction, building leaders, and driving engineering at scale? At McGraw Hill, our engineering leaders shape the future of learning. If you're passionate about building high-performing organizations, defining technical strategy, and connecting technology decisions to business outcomes, we'd love to hear from you.

We're looking for a Director of Software Engineering at McGraw Hill who thrives on organizational design, developing engineering managers, and driving multi-team delivery. This is a strategic leadership role that sits at the intersection of people, product, and technology - with direct impact on the direction and health of a significant portion of our engineering organization.

This is a remote position open to applicants authorized to work for any employer within the United States.

How can you make an Impact?

You'll be a key engineering leader in our organization - owning delivery across multiple teams, growing the next generation of engineering managers, and connecting engineering execution to company strategy. You'll operate at the intersection of people, product, and technology, shaping how we build and how we grow.

• Set technical direction that sticks: Translate business goals into a coherent engineering vision your teams can actually execute against. Make the hard calls about what to build, what to modernize, and what to leave behind - and communicate the reasoning clearly enough that your teams can make good decisions without you in the room.
• Build teams that can carry more weight over time: Anticipate where growth will break your current structure before it does. Make deliberate decisions about team boundaries, ownership, and spans of control - and revisit them as conditions change rather than treating org design as a one-time exercise.
• Recruit with intention: Personally shape hiring decisions, invest in talent relationships before you have an open role, and ensure the organization is always building toward the leadership capability it will need - not scrambling for it.
• Lead at org scale: Own delivery across multiple teams and multi-quarter programs. Use data to drive quality, throughput, and reliability - and build the systems that make success repeatable.
• Grow engineering leaders: Develop a bench of strong engineering managers and senior ICs. Build succession plans, drive calibrations, and create an environment where leaders are made, not just hired.
• Operate effectively across org boundaries: Your teams depend on platform, infrastructure, and SRE capabilities they don't own. Build the relationships and credibility to get what your teams need, hold up your end on shared standards, and keep dependencies from becoming blockers.
• Lead across geographies: Build trust and cohesion across onshore and nearshore engineers. Create alignment across time zones and communication styles, and manage vendor or partner relationships where applicable.
• Drive cross-functional alignment: Connect engineering vision to business outcomes. Build trust and alignment with executive stakeholders, Product, UX, and SRE - representing engineering at the highest levels of the organization.
• Build high-trust, high-performance culture: Raise the bar for inclusion, accountability, and team effectiveness. Develop a strong management layer and create the conditions for engineers and managers to do their best work.

What can you bring to the role?

• You're energized by operating at the intersection of people, technology, and business - you don't see those as competing priorities, you see them as the job.
• You bring clarity to ambiguity. When the path forward isn't obvious, you orient your teams rather than wait for direction.
• You hold a high bar and help people reach it - you give honest…