North America

North America

VP, Software Engineering - Core Systems

United States · Vp

Sponsorship not specified$193k-$308kDetected 30 days ago
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About the role

  • We believe in the power and joy of learning At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning.
  • This role serves as a critical member of Digital Technology leadership team, partnering closely with leaders across Higher Education, School, English Language Learning and Work.
  • You will guide teams dedicated to shared core capabilities and advance Cengage's Core Systems strategy.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technology strategy, roadmap, and operating model for the core systems in support of the Product Technology strategy and Cengage's enterprise product priorities.
  • Advance the "build once, scale everywhere" strategy by creating reusable capabilities that improve scalability, reduce duplication, increase consistency, and accelerate speed to market.
  • Partner with product and business leaders to increase the adoption of shared capabilities, while ensuring each business unit can tailor experiences for its market needs.
  • Partner with Security, Privacy, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure Core Systems support data protection, retention, obfuscation, auditability, academic integrity, and global privacy requirements.
  • Drive operational excellence through strong engineering practices, automation, CI/CD, observability, incident management, workload forecasting, and service level agreements.
  • Build, develop, and mentor a high-performing engineering leadership team, with talent pipelines and succession plans, fostering accountability, transparency, technical excellence, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Evaluate and recommend build, buy, and partner options for Core Systems capabilities, balancing strategic differentiation, cost, speed, risk, interoperability, and long-term ownership.
  • Create financial and operational transparency for shared services, including cost allocation, platform usage, product-level cost visibility, reliability metrics, and Core Systems investment tradeoffs.
  • Strong organizational leadership skills, including talent development, succession planning, culture building, performance management, and leadership of leaders.
  • Lead consolidation efforts across technology domains, including search and discovery, entitlements and license management, assessment services, data platforms, and other shared capabilities.

Skills

  • Experience defining and executing platform or shared-services strategies across complex product portfolios

Compensation

  • 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.
  • 35% Annual: Individual Target
  • $192,500.00 - $308,000.00 USD

Benefits

  • Establish shared AI infrastructure, data, retrieval, observability, safety, and platform services that enable product teams to create smart, adaptive learning experiences responsibly and efficiently.
  • Experience leading AI-enabled product platforms, personalization services, intelligent search, learning analytics, or enterprise data capabilities.
  • Experience in education technology, digital learning platforms, publishing, content platforms, assessment platforms, or other sophisticated digital product ecosystems.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Company info

  • We believe in the power and joy of learning
  • 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.

Equal opportunity

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