Senior Manager, Talent Management & Employee Experience

Role overview

McGraw Hill is seeking a Senior Manager of Talent Management & Employee Experience to shape and deliver high-impact initiatives across performance, talent, and employee experience. The role supports the company’s digital learning mission by building programs that help employees, leaders, and teams work more effectively and grow over time.

This is a project-based position focused on measurable results across talent lifecycle programs at scale. The role partners with HR, business leaders, and other stakeholders to strengthen performance practices, build leadership capability, and improve engagement, retention, and organizational effectiveness.

This is a remote opportunity open only to candidates who are authorized to work for any employer in the United States.

Performance management and talent strategy

• Own the full performance management cycle, including goal setting, mid-year and annual reviews, calibration, and support for ongoing feedback.
• Improve performance frameworks, tools, and workflows so they are easier to understand, more consistent, and more widely adopted.
• Lead talent review and succession planning activities, including talent assessments, high-potential identification, and development planning.
• Work with HR business partners and leaders to connect talent priorities with business goals.

Learning, leadership, and capability development

• Create, refine, and run leadership development and manager enablement sessions covering areas such as coaching, feedback, and performance conversations.
• Deliver learning programs through a mix of classroom-style, digital, and hands-on learning methods.
• Support enterprise learning and development initiatives tied to core capability areas such as leadership effectiveness, change agility, and performance culture.

Program design and project delivery

• Manage complex talent and HR initiatives from planning through rollout.
• Build project plans, monitor milestones, and keep work moving toward deadlines.
• Look for ways to simplify processes, improve efficiency, and make the experience better for users.
• Support change management and communications to drive adoption of new programs and tools.

Stakeholder partnership and advisory

• Act as a trusted advisor to HR and business leaders on talent management, employee experience, and organizational effectiveness.
• Align cross-functional partners to reduce silos and improve execution across initiatives.
• Use talent data, engagement trends, and program results to provide recommendations and insights.

Additional information

This role is project status worker position. Travel may be required up to 25%.

Compensation and benefits

The annual base salary range for this role is $130,000 to $160,000. Actual pay may vary based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. An annual bonus plan may also be included, along with a full range of medical and other benefits depending on the position offered. The employer also highlights the opportunity to contribute to work that can have a broad impact.