http://careers.hmhco.com/feeds/hmh-careers-ireland-jobs/ Custom RSS Feed for hmh-careers-ireland-jobs Thu, 23 May 2013 11:19:40 GMT en-us http://careers.hmhco.com/feeds/hmh-careers-ireland-jobs/ 720 Published Job Title: Marketing Specialist - International Markets
Published Division/Department: International Markets
Requisition #: 5862
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: Full Time - Project Employee
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Marketing

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt International is the division responsible for the management and growth of HMH international business. The division consists of a team of Sales Representatives, Consultants, Finance and a Sales and Marketing Support Team.

The Opportunity

The International Marketing Specialist (6 month fixed term contract) will develop close relationships with HMH's partners and target customers around the world with the objective for them to be able to localise, manufacture, promote and market the HMH catalogue of products in their given country.

The role will have responsibility for implementing marketing campaigns and sales readiness initiatives that better equip HMH sales teams and partners in communicating with target customers.

Duties & Responsibilities

* Coordinating product market launch initiatives such as customer, partner and sales team training, sales, go to market sales kits and online support.
* Developing marketing collateral and tools that support HMH sales teams and partners
* Developing engaging customer case studies that support the HMH value proposition
* Support the development and implementation of e-marketing campaigns
* Manage HMH participation at regional customer seminars

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential:

* 3-5 years' relevant experience in Marketing.
* 3 years' experience
* Strong communication and presentation skills
* Effective influencing skills
* Knowledge of the technology, education or publishing sectors
* A driven, self-starter and creative thinker who will act on market requirements
* Track record of delivering successful marketing campaigns that produce results
* Experience establishing and managing relationships throughout the industry, at all levels
* Fluent English

Desirable:

* Experience supporting an International Sales Team
* Proven experience supporting and managing a network of partners

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Marketing-Specialist-International-Markets-Job/2571667/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Marketing-Specialist-International-Markets-Job/2571667/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Project Manager - Strategic Initiatives
Published Division/Department: Digital Content Development
Requisition #: 5595
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Project Management / Program Management

Job Specification

Department: Digital Content Development

Title: Project Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Status: Permanent

Location: Dublin

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Description:

* The Strategic Initiatives team is responsible for analysing and implementing new strategic initiatives within the Digital Content Development organization. The team works collaboratively with groups across HMH and the Product Development group to identify strategic opportunities, such as process improvements or new production efficiencies for our business. These projects may include, but not limited to, HTML5, new Content Management Systems, adaptive content and assessment for Digital products, Next Generation Content, and new processes around our digital delivery model. An emerging component of the team will be to drive and implement new metrics/data initiatives within DCD.

Project Manager - key Responsibilities

* Will help research, define, and implement new, strategic opportunities within DCD (see projects above).
* Conduct both external and internal research to identify opportunities (e.g. interviews, market research)
* Collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to validate opportunity for improvement and recommend strategy/course of action to executive leadership
* Responsible for overall project delivery, including schedule, budget, resource assignment and quality
* Manage the execution and associated process creation to support the new Metric initiatives in DCD.
* Drive and implement data management efficiencies within DCD, which will enable the leadership team make informed business decisions

Schedules

* Creates detailed project schedule and requests required resources from team members assigned for specific project tasks
* Drive given initiatives to agreed budget submission and quality
* Collaborate with cross functional team member as appropriate for specific information

Reporting

* Update & Manage project/component budget on a weekly basis and advise Program Manager ASAP of any budget risk or changes
* Timely accurate status reports
* Timely accurate weekly project/component tracker updated

Requirements:
Job Specification

Department: Digital Content Development

Title: Project Manager – Strategic Initiatives

Status: Permanent

Location: Dublin

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

Description:

* The Strategic Initiatives team is responsible for analysing and implementing new strategic initiatives within the Digital Content Development organization. The team works collaboratively with groups across HMH and the Product Development group to identify strategic opportunities, such as process improvements or new production efficiencies for our business. These projects may include, but not limited to, HTML5, new Content Management Systems, adaptive content and assessment for Digital products, Next Generation Content, and new processes around our digital delivery model. An emerging component of the team will be to drive and implement new metrics/data initiatives within DCD.

Project Manager - key Responsibilities

* Will help research, define, and implement new, strategic opportunities within DCD (see projects above).
* Conduct both external and internal research to identify opportunities (e.g. interviews, market research)
* Collect and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to validate opportunity for improvement and recommend strategy/course of action to executive leadership
* Responsible for overall project delivery, including schedule, budget, resource assignment and quality
* Manage the execution and associated process creation to support the new Metric initiatives in DCD.
* Drive and implement data management efficiencies within DCD, which will enable the leadership team make informed business decisions

Schedules

* Creates detailed project schedule and requests required resources from team members assigned for specific project tasks
* Drive given initiatives to agreed budget submission and quality
* Collaborate with cross functional team member as appropriate for specific information

Reporting

* Update & Manage project/component budget on a weekly basis and advise Director and/or relevant Manager ASAP of any budget risk or changes
* Timely accurate status reports
* Timely accurate weekly project/component tracker updated

Requirements:

The ideal candidate must have:

Essential:

* A third level qualification in computer science, education, business or project management, or relevant, significant work experience
* Significant project level experience, including end-to-end project lifecycles, within a dynamic software delivery environment
* Strong project management skills – expert at building and tracking project plans and risk management
* Proven ability to delivery projects as part of a geographically dispersed team to budget, schedule and quality.
* Ability manage offshore vendors to deliver project requirements
* Excellent interpersonal and proven communication skills at peer, stakeholder and Vendor levels to be able to motivate a team delivery
* Experience in a rapid, high growth environment with ability to take ownership of tasks and se through to conclusion
* Positive, proactive, can do attitude to problem solving and issue management
* Excellent time management and experience in multiple project delivery
* Customer service orientation with ability to manage relationships with internal customers

Desirable:

* Experience at a similar level in similar/relevant roles within the multimedia/education industry
* Hands-on experience in producing multimedia products, preferably for delivery on multiple platforms, in a multi-product environment, on-time and to industry quality standard.
* Proven value-add experience in improving project process and control.
* High degree of business acumen with the ability to add strategic value to projects

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Project-Manager-Strategic-Initiatives-Job/2406895/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Project-Manager-Strategic-Initiatives-Job/2406895/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Automation QA Lead
Published Division/Department: Information Technology
Requisition #: 5453
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Multimedia Product Development

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties & Responsibilities

o Analyze the testing requirements of HMH platform and digital content projects, and formulate a test automation strategy for each project

o Build extensible automated testing frameworks that support.

* The development of parameterized test cases
* Test execution on multiple environments
* User friendly reporting of the results

Present and guide the automated testing engineers in partner companies to develop tests with newly constructed and existing testing frameworks.

Review the automated tests written by the test engineers to make sure they adhere to the established standards. Mentor and guide them to consistently achieve these standards.

Research on new tools that could cater to the challenges, which cannot be met with the available testing tools

Co-ordinate and manage all automated testing activities for both internal and outsourced testing partners

Work intensively with Project Managers and Software Engineers, coordinating testing efforts within a highly iterative Agile-type development environment.

Establish clear controls and communications procedure with offshore test partner and project developer.

Responsible for reporting the testing status and managing expectations to the project stakeholders (both internal and external)

Reporting to QA Manager

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential

o Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or four year degree, or equivalent experience.

* A minimum of three years automated testing experience. Should include;
* Leading a team of automated test engineers
* Developing new automated testing frameworks
* Developing and executing automated tests
* Proficient in an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
* Proficient in commercial and open source testing tools (preferably Selenium RC or Webdriver).
* Requires thorough knowledge of testing methods and the software development lifecycle
* Experience working within an Agile/Scrum or similar development environment
* Must be highly process orientated.
* Requires excellent familiarity with Windows, Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems and hardware.
* Requires excellent familiarity with generic Test management systems and defect tracking databases.
* Requires good problem-solving and analytical skills
* Experience with Enterprise level web systems, multi-tiered client/server technology is a must.
* Experience with Learning Management Systems, and/or Educational Multimedia products desirable.
* Requires strong organizational, communication, and administrative skills
* Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communications skills
* Pro-active, self motivated, results oriented
* Proven track record in project management/resource planning.
* Experience working on K-12 courseware development highly desirable.
* Experience working with outsourced Development and QA Teams.
* Must be a team player

Highly Desirable

o Performance testing experience
o ISEB/ISTQB Certification

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2336196/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2336196/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Information Design Lead
Published Division/Department: Digital Content Development
Requisition #: 5845
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Editorial

As an Information Design Lead at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), you will play a key role in defining the information design and architecture for print-to-digital products and new digital content, which includes defining the structures, granularity, and labeling of all K-12 instructional elements in a digital environment. The main aspects of the Information Design role are:
- Research customer and internal stakeholder needs for the organization and digital display of print-to-digital components and new digital instruction, activities, and learning objects
- Analyze existing instructional information from developed components and define new instructional data as needed to best determine hierarchical instructional access points
- Develop specific instructional labels as needed that fit currently accepted schemas and new schemas as they are developed.
- Develop full program content and structural metadata with the assistance of vendors or contractors, ensuring that metadata rule-sets are followed
- Ensure user-facing metadata meets HMH text and language standards so it is clear and meaningful for our users
- Along with other members of the Information Design team, engage a broad range of stakeholders to ensure information design and architecture development plans and implications are agreed and understood across functional teams, such as Program Management and Publishing Technologies

Working with the Information Design Manager, this role may also support content development teams in reviewing metadata schema needs based on up-coming programs and recommending enhancements to schemas structures.

Considerations include:
- Participate in cross-functional discussion about metadata development.
- Develop documentation with clear recommendations for go-forward metadata strategies.
- Develop and execute training for team members and others as new metadata schemas are adopted.

* Collaborate with Editorial, Marketing, Program Management, and other teams to define high-level project requirements.
* Work with Editorial team to capture and represent curriculum architecture for HMH products. This should reflect the organization and structure of lessons, assessments, practice activities, and supporting resources.
* In consultation with Platform Architecture team and other Information Design team members, define and update product metadata schemas.
* Carry out necessary tasks to optimally onboard selected information design vendors, including developing vendor ‘kits’ for development and delivering training.
* Develop, analyze, and review curricular standard correlations.
* Work with all areas of product design and development: Program Management, Project Management, Learning Design, Engineering and QA to ensure on time, on budget and agreed quality is achieved in the assigned discipline areas.
* Perform information design reviews as required on digital products, such as, platform UI, interactive textbooks, online assessments, and interactive digital content
* Work with the Information Design Manager to ensure that capacity planning is completed for all assigned projects.
Produce status reports for manager/supervisor that accurately describes current status of project deliverables.

Requirements:
Ess-- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in English or a related field
- Proven ability to use information architecture strategies: identifying logical relationships and organizational principles for semantic content and, from this, to defining “rules” that can be applied to deploy the content in a database or platform.
- Excellent writing, copyediting, and proofreading skills, with attention to detail
- Practical experience working with vendors, including engagement, onboarding, and managing performance
- Proven experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Excellent communication and organization skills
- Very good decision-making and problem-solving skills
- Self-motivated, able to work and communicate effectively with a variety of technical and creative individuals
- Proven ability to meet deadlines regularly and to highlight risks at early stages
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and Word

Highly Desirable
- Experience developing digital learning solutions for the K-12 market
- Well versed in topics related to information architecture, user-centered design, curriculum development, information science
- Experience in creating or inputting into the development artifacts such as, wireframes, process flows, flow charts, schematics, functional requirements, user scenarios, personas, use cases, and content matrices
- Ability to write and edit storyboards for interactive learning products that meet target learning objectives and specified learner requirements
- Experience working on an Editorial team developing K-12 educational materials
- Experience defining specific and measurable learning objectives
- Experience designing user and information flows, as well as supporting documentation

*LI-CT1]]>Wed, 15 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Information-Design-Lead-Job/2549634/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Information-Design-Lead-Job/2549634/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Automation QA Lead
Published Division/Department: Information Technology
Requisition #: 5807
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Multimedia Product Development

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties & Responsibilities

o Analyze the testing requirements of HMH platform and digital content projects, and formulate a test automation strategy for each project

o Build extensible automated testing frameworks that support.

* The development of parameterized test cases
* Test execution on multiple environments
* User friendly reporting of the results

Present and guide the automated testing engineers in partner companies to develop tests with newly constructed and existing testing frameworks.

Review the automated tests written by the test engineers to make sure they adhere to the established standards. Mentor and guide them to consistently achieve these standards.

Research on new tools that could cater to the challenges, which cannot be met with the available testing tools

Co-ordinate and manage all automated testing activities for both internal and outsourced testing partners

Work intensively with Project Managers and Software Engineers, coordinating testing efforts within a highly iterative Agile-type development environment.

Establish clear controls and communications procedure with offshore test partner and project developer.

Responsible for reporting the testing status and managing expectations to the project stakeholders (both internal and external)

Reporting to QA Manager

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential

o Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or four year degree, or equivalent experience.

* A minimum of three years automated testing experience. Should include;
* Leading a team of automated test engineers
* Developing new automated testing frameworks
* Developing and executing automated tests
* Proficient in an object oriented programming language (preferably Java)
* Proficient in commercial and open source testing tools (preferably Selenium RC or Webdriver).
* Requires thorough knowledge of testing methods and the software development lifecycle
* Experience working within an Agile/Scrum or similar development environment
* Must be highly process orientated.
* Requires excellent familiarity with Windows, Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems and hardware.
* Requires excellent familiarity with generic Test management systems and defect tracking databases.
* Requires good problem-solving and analytical skills
* Experience with Enterprise level web systems, multi-tiered client/server technology is a must.
* Experience with Learning Management Systems, and/or Educational Multimedia products desirable.
* Requires strong organizational, communication, and administrative skills
* Excellent interpersonal and written/verbal communications skills
* Pro-active, self motivated, results oriented
* Proven track record in project management/resource planning.
* Experience working on K-12 courseware development highly desirable.
* Experience working with outsourced Development and QA Teams.
* Must be a team player

Highly Desirable

o Performance testing experience
o ISEB/ISTQB Certification

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2571664/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2571664/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Lead Application Engineer- Mobile applications
Published Division/Department: Technology Product Development
Requisition #: 5813
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Multimedia Product Development

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Software Engineer with strong technical knowledge and team management skills. Your main development projects will be Mobile applications (iOS, Android, Win8) and Web-based online interactive programs. The role requires strong development skills and proven ability to work independently. Ideally the Engineer will have experience of managing out of house development teams while also working on internal projects.

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties & Responsibilities

* Lead and manage near and far shore technical development teams.
* Implement and design technical solutions to meet requirements.
* Troubleshoot existing product issues and develop solutions.
* Collaborate with other engineers and functional groups.
* Participate in the creation of user, functional and business specifications.
* Ensure goals and objectives of the project are met efficiently.
* Keeping abreast of emerging trends and technologies.
* Ability to understand and express complex topics.
* Reviewing of detailed designs and code.

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential

* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or comparable industry experience.
* A minimum of 3 years proven leadership/management experience of technical teams.
* At least 5+ years as a software engineering using OO languages (Java, C++, C# etc.).
* Experience in web technologies such as HTML/5, JavaScript, CSS.
* Excellent debugging skills.
* Ability to work under short deadlines.
* Excellent oral and written communication skills with fluency in English essential.
* Ability to work on and manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Desirable

* Experience in iOS development.

* Experience in Android development.

* Experience in Windows 8 development.

* Experience building native and web applications.

* Knowledge of SQLite, MySQL or similar database management system.

* XML/JSON

* Experience of development using JavaScript frameworks (JQuery, Backbone etc.)

* Experience in eLearning development and standards.

* Experience in development of server-side/enterprise systems would be an advantage.

* Experience using social media APIs.

* Experience in working within an Agile development environment.

Job Segments:
Developer, Engineer, Mobile, Product Development, Technology, Engineering

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Lead-Application-Engineer-Mobile-applications-Job/2595070/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Lead-Application-Engineer-Mobile-applications-Job/2595070/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Senior J2EE Engineer
Published Division/Department: Technology Product Development
Requisition #: 5775
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Information Technology

The Opportunity

We are currently looking for a Senior J2EE Engineer. This is a team leadership role requiring very strong technical and architectural skills and strong communications. The Senior J2EE Engineer will have overall responsibility for technical aspects of our Learning Management systems, the architectural decisions, estimations, code reviews, daily management of an external software development team, liaising with contractors and outsourced partners, reporting to project managers and managing internal stakeholders. Very strong J2EE Skills are essential as is a working knowledge of Spring and Hibernate. A good knowledge of Oracle or similar relational database and knowledge of web frameworks is desirable. Experience of the eLearning sector would be an advantage. Exposure to and knowledge of software release management techniques and interfacing with a QA department as part of any major software development projects is expected. Individuals will be expected to be familiar with all technical aspects and build procedures of their assigned systems. This Senior J2EE position reports directly to the Platform Manager and is located in our Dublin office.The OrganizationHoughton Mifflin Harcourt’s mission is changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers. Duties & Responsibilities:
* Participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, debugging, testing and rollout
* Provide technical leadership to an external/internal software development team and take ownership for component design, development and maintenance
* Analyse and estimate change requests as well as new development
* Day to day management of developers on a range of projects
* Responsible for code reviews and technical quality standards from their team
* Weekly Reporting to Department Management
* Assist in defining structured practices especially in source code management, build and release management
* Management of communication between project managers, internal stakeholders and external development teams

Requirements Skills and Experience:
* 7+ years enterprise Java J2EE development experience

* Experience of the Hibernate and Spring Frameworks
* Experience of relational databases, e.g. Oracle, MSSQL, etc
* Experience of J2ee servers e.g. WebSphere, Weblogic, JBoss
* Experience of UNIX, preferably Solaris, Linux is a plus
* Software build experience and experience to continuous integration environments
* Practical knowledge of Source Control Management, specifically branching, tagging and merging of different code streams
* Experience of technical leadership of software developers
* Experience of interfacing with project management

* Requires a very strong level of interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees.]]>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Senior-J2EE-Engineer-Job/2504510/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Senior-J2EE-Engineer-Job/2504510/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: QA Manager
Published Division/Department: Information Technology
Requisition #: 5580
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Multimedia Product Development

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's mission is changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

The Opportunity

This position has direct responsibility for managing our internal Technical Platform QA leadership team and our outsourced QA vendors. The QA Manager will build and manage a QA group that assures quality engineering infrastructure, quality testing strategies for enterprise level systems, platforms and applications management of product builds to QA, and release processes.

The successful candidate will be an experienced professional with the technical and interpersonal skills to manage high performing Quality organizations.

The QA Manager will work across the engineering team to direct and influence quality improvement initiatives, build and manage test beds and test harnesses to support unit, system, and integration testing.

Duties & Responsibilities

*
Lead and inspire a highly skilled Quality Assurance team responsible for Quality Assurance and product testing.

* Manage and operate the testing infrastructure supportive to engineers and quality group, including all system platforms, tools, and build environments
* Develop and institutionalize quality assurance best practices across the Organization
* Work across the engineering team to develop and implement appropriate test beds and create test harnesses that may be reused across product iterations
* Establish criteria for test strategies for enterprise level platform products, courseware, and production tools.
* Plan and implement appropriate types of testing at appropriate development milestones: unit and component testing, system testing, integration testing, load and stress testing, overall performance testing, storage testing, bandwidth testing, as appropriate.
* Implement appropriate balance of white box, gray box, and black box testing per product type and system requirements
* Hire, train, and manage test leads and test engineers
* Ensure that vendor partner test strategies and test cases meet product test requirements via coordinating engineering and quality team reviews
* Design and present test results reports on bug discovery and resolution and overall product performance per test strategies
* Manage vendor partner relationships and costs, and liaise with Executive
* Producers and project managers on product budgets

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

*
BS in computer science or equivalent degree

* 5+ years as manager of a software quality assurance organization
* 5-10 years in Quality Assurance, with experience writing test strategies, test cases, and in test automation
* Thorough understanding and knowledge of quality assurance processes, standards, methodologies, and tools
* Enterprise level application and database testing, on multiple platforms, including UNIX, Windows, Mac
* Managerial experience in motivating and managing internal lead QA engineers who coordinate multiple outsource vendor partner testing.
* Build and release processes and protocols, with working knowledge of source control systems.
* Experience defining programs for Automated and Performance testing and developing
* New automated test procedures
* Experience with Load Runner or Silk Performer, QTP, WinRunner and other automated functional and Performance testing tools.
* Experience with multiple types of "performance" testing, including specification compliance, load and stress testing, storage and bandwidth testing and capacity planning.
* Ability to analyze large amounts of data and determine system areas of deficiency for further testing
* Desire and proven ability to improve product quality
* Strong interpersonal and proactive leadership skills
* Ability to excel in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where action and initiative are prerequisites to performing well
* Team player with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Thu, 02 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-QA-Manager-Job/2528476/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-QA-Manager-Job/2528476/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Software Development Scrum Master / Agile Lead
Published Division/Department: Technology Product Development
Requisition #: 5457
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Information Technology

The Opportunity

We currently have a vacancy for a Software Development Scrum Master for the development of new features and enhancements on a number of customer facing applications and platforms. As a Software Development Scrum Master you must have a proven track record and experience from a number of agile projects.

This is a hands-on role where you will act as scrum Master and also through the full software development lifecycle and carefully monitoring and controlling through each of the phases from initiation to closure. Some level of project management/project leadership experience would also be advantageous.

The Organization

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s mission is changing people’s lives by fostering passionate, curious, learners. Sixty million students in 120 countries depend on us for their education. HMH is the world's largest provider of pre-K-12 solutions. We collaborate with school districts, administrators, teachers, parents and students, providing interactive, results-driven learning. With origins dating back to 1832, HMH also publishes an extensive line of reference works and award-winning literature for adults and young readers.

Duties & Responsibilities
- Scrum Master for platform development project – encompassing all aspects of the scrum master role
· Daily Scrums Sprint Planning
· Conduct Lessons Learned sessions and ensure feedback is used for subsequent sprints. Arranging Sprint Demo
· Provide inputs and action Process changes as/where required.
· Ensure project objectives are met within the constraints of project scope, time, cost and required quality.
· Coordinating and communication with project resources, internal team, stakeholders and vendors on all aspects of project progression/status
· Measuring progress and monitoring performance (overall, scope, schedule, costs, quality)
· Risk Management including issue escalation and resolution. · Post Project Implementation review to document lessons learnt.

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential

* Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or Business.
* 6 years + experience in a similar project management role working with Agile project teams.
* An understanding of the benefits of Scrum and Lean, the differences between Agile methods, and how they can be applied together.
* Experience leading, consulting engagements and/or technical teams - coaching, teaching and guiding people in the various roles in a project-driven organisation.
* Agile Development Tools proficiency such as Greenhopper
* Experience in managing multiple projects concurrently Experience in managing technical resources.
* Extensive hands-on experience in producing and grooming backlog, creating release plans etc. Exceptional communication skills with fluency in both verbal and written English.
* Experience working with Technical Product Management Teams, experience and exposure to the some of the following technologies, .Net, Java App, J2EE, SQL, Client server based environments
* Ability to work with 3rd party vendors

Highly Desirable

* Analytical Skills with ability to truly understand the full scope and impact of the project requirements
* Some previous project leadership/management experience.
* Customer service orientation with ability to manage relationships with internal customers
* Ability to drive consensus among various internal stakeholders and team members.
* Risk and issue management to all levels in the organization. Extensive experience in project reporting in an agile environment.
* Excellent multi-tasking and organizational skills High degree of business acumen

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is committed to a comprehensive policy of Equal Opportunities and we aim to create a workplace which provides for equal opportunities for all employees and potential employees

*LI-CT1]]>Fri, 17 May 2013 07:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Software-Development-Scrum-Master-Agile-Lead-Job/2378539/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Software-Development-Scrum-Master-Agile-Lead-Job/2378539/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Digital Program Manager
Published Division/Department: Digital Content Development
Requisition #: 5594
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 0 - 10%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Project Management / Program Management

Digital Products Research & Development

Job Specification

Department: Digital Content Development

Title: Digital Program Manager

Reports To: VP Program Managers

Status: Permanent

Location: Dublin

The Opportunity

The Digital Program Manager position within the Digital Content Development team will be responsible for the coordinated management of multiple related development projects to deliver a K-12 Digital Educational Product.

The Program Manager will direct through facilitation and collaboration, lead and control projects to a successful completion including UX delivery, on-quality, on-schedule and on-budget. This is a key role where the individual is expected to balance the dual objectives of ‘Producer’ and ‘Delivery Management’ while directing the work tasks and deliverables of internal functional groups and outsourced vendor partners, with a heavy emphasis on vendor engagement and management to achieve deliveries.

As a Program Manager you will have a track record of successfully developing strong relationships and managing complex, cross discipline projects. The ideal candidate must be able to demonstrate a history of successful development of relationship development (cross-functional and collaborative), project management in a product based environment, collaboration and with extensive usage of vendors to meet delivery requirements.

Additionally the Program Manager will work with other Program Managers and Project Managers to monitor quality, cost, schedule, UX and technical performance of component projects and operations, while working to ensure the ultimate success of a program.

The Program Manager will also be responsible for leading a small team of project managers and will be responsible for their development to further the capability of our PM team.

The Program Manager must be able to perform in a highly dynamic, fast paced environment involving significant and intense coordination with many business groups to supervise the successful planning, coordination, execution and completion of project assignments, ensuring high quality and high stakeholder satisfaction through-out the development project effort. The Program Manager must have the ability to grasp issues and evaluate the situation at hand in order to make rapid decisions. They must be capable of solving moderately complex technical and business operational challenges. They must also have the ability to assess the needs of stakeholders, make quick and effective decisions to ensure overall stakeholder satisfaction and efficient delivery of their commitments.

Responsibilities:
- Engage Stakeholders in a collaborative, confident, professional and influential manner to develop product objectives, project scope and deliverables, structure and planning through delivery of assigned component and related component releases to deliver the end Product
- Assist and support business case creation
- Provide Stakeholder input represented in both technical and business terms with descriptive requirements to ensure the value of the project is realized
- Delivery, documentation and circulation of an end to end Plan, including activity, dependencies, timing and ownership in a wide cross-functional environment. Follow up with specific owners to deliver components of the project on-time
- Present program status and issues to DCD LT and Stakeholders on a regular and consistent basis in regular status reporting and status meetings
- Driving a unified message to all Stakeholders and Delivery Partners and deliver their feedback back to the relevant internal teams
- Provide actionable detail on future product requirements to the relevant internal teams for inclusion in future product developments
- Recommend improvements to project management approach, policies and guidelines
- Understand and coach/teach others the HMH Product lifecycle from pre-beta through post-Release milestones and planning procedures

Requirements:
Requirements / Qualifications:

* BS/BA in Computer Science, Business or related field
* Minimum of 7+ years’ experience in project management
* Minimum of 5+ years’ experience in the software product development field
* PMP Certification or equivalent
* Proven ability to drive large scale projects with high collaboration and leadership
* Excellent judgment, problem solving, decision making skills, and the ability to work under continual deadline pressure
* Excellent presentation skills and experience of presenting to senior management
* Fluent English, excellent interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written
* Excellent people management skills
* Experienced in vendor management as a delivery model for product development

*LI-CT1]]>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Digital-Program-Manager-Job/2409032/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Digital-Program-Manager-Job/2409032/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Senior Quality Automation Engineer
Published Division/Department: Information Technology
Requisition #: 5579
State/Province/County: Dublin
City: Dublin
Country: Ireland
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Multimedia Product Development

The Organization

Boston-based Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the largest US K-12 educational publisher in the United States. To learn more about Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, visit www.hmco.com

Duties & Responsibilities:

The Senior Quality Automation Engineer will play an integral role on Agile/Scrum product team(s) by developing software automation to aid in the delivery of high-quality products to our customers.

Maintain HMH’s custom Automation Framework, which is a collection of commonly used automated testing tools, by adding features, implementing enhancements, and fixing issues.

The Senior Quality Automation Engineer will develop automation tools and UI Scripts using, Selenium, Visual Studio, C#/.NET, and other testing tools to routinely test software deployments and products.

In addition to creating automated test scripts, the Senior Quality Automation Engineer will review the automated test scripts written by the Quality Automation Engineers to make sure they adhere to the established standards.

The candidate will need to log, manage, and re-test issues when found, estimate time for the delivery of tasks, and execute automated tests when required.

Mentor and guide Quality Automation Engineers both in-house and in partner companies to develop tests with newly constructed and existing testing frameworks

Research on new tools that could cater to the challenges, which cannot be met with the available testing tools

Adheres to automation ‘best-practices’ and standards to allow for easier collaboration among automation team members and increase the quality of the automation code.

Create documentation and training aides to help local team members and off-shore teams develop better automation and tools

Requirements:
Skills and Experience:

Essential

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related technical degree, plus minimum 2 years of full life-cycle software development and automated testing experience

Experience working on Agile/Scrum teams including participation in the following: Scrum meetings, Task Planning, Team Retrospectives, etc.

Experience using automated testing tools; i.e. Selenium Web Driver, WatiN, etc.

Mid-level to advanced coding skills, preferably in Java.

Working knowledge of testing RESTful web services and using a corresponding tool-set (SoapUI, JUnit, NUnit, SQL etc.)

Basic understanding of DB’s and queries

An individual with a track-record of being a ‘self-starter’, who is able to effectively decipher assigned tasks, deliver on-time with a high-level of accuracy, and pro-active in solving problems.

Familiar with Unit Testing Frameworks

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Detail orientated, and ability to multi-task effective

Highly Desirable:

Mid-level to advanced knowledge of source control tools: SVN, VSS, CVS, etc., including merge and branching concepts

Basic understanding of Performance Tools: JMeter, LoadRunner, etc.

Experience of working within a Continuous Integration environment

Working knowledge of Test Driven Development and Behaviour Driven Design

ISEB/ISTQB Certification]]>Fri, 03 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2402095/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Dublin-Automation-QA-Lead-Job/2402095/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Software Developer Intern
Published Division/Department: Information Technology
Requisition #: 5636
State/Province/County: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: None
Position Type: Full Time - Intern
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Information Technology

HMH aims to spark a lifelong love of learning in every individual we touch. Our challenge and our passion is to combine cutting-edge research, editorial excellence and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. We are among the world’s largest providers of pre-K–12 education solutions and one of its longest-established publishing houses. We deliver interactive, results-driven education solutions to 60 million students in 120 countries; and we publish renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works for readers throughout the world.

The Opportunity:

HMH is seeking students interested in software development internships. Our IT internship program offers opportunities for students to get hands on exposure to meaningful projects impacting our department commitments and strategy.

Each of our internships is focused on a business problem, project or body of research where you will be working with industry thought leaders in your field of practice. We provide dynamic opportunities for you interface with top departmental and company leadership as well as social opportunities for you to bond with fellow interns. If you are looking for a great place to start your career in the publishing industry, consider Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

The development internship requires very strong technical and communications skills. This role will have responsibility related to technical implementations working alongside a team of engineers, test engineers and product stakeholders. This is a hands-on development role and requires a strong software development background. The intern will participate in all phases of development from definition and design through implementation, debugging, testing and deployment to ensure all work is to the highest standards. The intern will support component design, development and maintenance. Have responsibilities for code reviews and technical quality standards within the project team. Carry out meticulous automated unit tests to ensure a high quality deliverable into QA. Assist in defining structured practices especially in source code management, build and release management. Participate in usability reviews and lead improvements in front end design. Use appropriate tools to maintain version control and build processes.

Requirements:
The Requirements:

A bachelor’s, masters or MBA candidate. If pursuing an undergraduate degree, junior or senior year students are preferred.

Excellent JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3 skills

Experienced in developing dynamic JavaScript Applications.

Good understanding of web technologies, usability, object oriented programming and development frameworks.

Requires a very strong level of interpersonal and communication (verbal and written) skills

Front end automated testing

Cross browser and cross device web app development]]>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-Software-Developer-Intern-Job-MA-02108/2428415/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-Software-Developer-Intern-Job-MA-02108/2428415/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: National Practice Director (homebased , location open)
Published Division/Department: Corporate Education Services
Requisition #: 5800
State/Province/County: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 30% - 40%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Educational Consulting/Professional Services
The Education Practice Manger for Adult Learning/Workforce Redevelopment and Adaptive Teaching markets will leverage their expertise and experience to define and develop next-generation learning services and professional development for education leaders. Practice Managers will lead HMH’s thought leadership efforts on a specific discipline area(s), using research; market data, trends, and innovation; competitive intelligence; and work with association, government, and partner experts to create services and products that anticipate client needs and demands. Partnering with the HMH Leadership and Learning Center (LLC) – and across HMH (e.g., product development, assessment), the Practice Manager will be responsible for building a complete service offering to be marketed, sold, and delivered through the LLC’s service professionals and consultants.
Lead HMH design strategy for discipline-specific next-generation learning services offerings:· Track market trends, research, and innovations as well as legislative and competitive landscape to ensure that HMH is designing high-impact service offerings that anticipate client demand.· Monitor HMH product development, assessment, and services current offerings and pipeline plans to construct comprehensive solutions where appropriate.· Maintain regular communication with LLC and HMH Heinemann teammates to leverage fully client input and feedback and share it within our community of services professionals.Convert market intelligence into comprehensive Services offerings:· Create framework and timeline for proposed deliverables.· Validate proposed solutions via internal and external discussions, speaking engagement, etc.· Pilot comprehensive solutions – independently, with HMH colleagues, clients, or associations/partners – to incubate and test new service offerings.· Build pilots with appropriate innovative delivery methodologies, working with delivery design lead.· Analyze success or shortcomings of incubation efforts to refine and prepare offerings.· Work with Operations Manager and LLC publications team to construct professional development and/or learning services and artifacts in accordance with standard practices.· Develop facilitation strategies for seminar delivery built on adult learning theory principles.· Train and certify LLC or other delivery teams in new content.Convey HMH thought-leadership on specific education areas via internal and external activities:· Speak at or serve on panel discussions at association and/or education events.· Write white papers that articulate the HMH position on new service areas (prime the pump).· Build reference list of clients (or incubation partners) and internal experts to market new services.· Participate actively in HMH and/or leading education social media channels.· eChats, Colloquy presentations, and/or other internal informational communication activities.· Provide sales support (e.g., proposal strategy, sales calls) and customer consultation as needed. Host periodic “think tank” activities with education experts and/or clients to generate feedback, guidance, and validate strategies and for discovery of new challenges and opportunities.
Requirements
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

MANAGEMENT/FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ability and courage to question present state, envision future state, and translate into high-impact services and products targeted to client demand• Ability to manage to project plans and deadline• Excellent presentation/training skills • Self-starter with strong teaming, organization, and collaboration skills• Strong analytical skills and business awareness• Ability to balance high-level, strategic thinking and tactical focus on delivery of specific work products• Excellent professional writing skills • Ensure development projects stay within budget• Manage T&E budget to meet full year commitments

• Manage resource and membership budget

Required:• Master’s Degree in Education or related field• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Professional Development, Educational Consulting and/or Research, or related field(s)• Educational expertise and experience working in/with school districts, state DOEs, for-profits, and/or other• Knowledge of adult learning principles and successful experience creating and delivering service offerings, products, or related deliverables• Demonstrated market expertise in the area of Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Interventional Strategies, Adult Education, or Workforce Development required.Preferred: • Advanced expertise on critical educational topics such as early childhood education, educational leadership, etc. • Experience in education environment as an instructor, leader, or other local or state administrator• Boston-based]]>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2544910/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2544910/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: National Practice Director(home based,location open)
Published Division/Department: Corporate Education Services
Requisition #: 5760
State/Province/County: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 30% - 40%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Educational Consulting/Professional Services
The Education Practice Manger will leverage their expertise and experience to define and develop next-generation learning services and professional development for education leaders. Practice Managers will lead HMH’s thought leadership efforts on a specific discipline area(s), using research; market data, trends, and innovation; competitive intelligence; and work with association, government, and partner experts to create services and products that anticipate client needs and demands. Partnering with the HMH Leadership and Learning Center (LLC) – and across HMH (e.g., product development, assessment), the Practice Manager will be responsible for building a complete service offering to be marketed, sold, and delivered through the LLC’s service professionals and consultants.
Lead HMH design strategy for discipline-specific next-generation learning services offerings:· Track market trends, research, and innovations as well as legislative and competitive landscape to ensure that HMH is designing high-impact service offerings that anticipate client demand.· Monitor HMH product development, assessment, and services current offerings and pipeline plans to construct comprehensive solutions where appropriate.· Maintain regular communication with LLC and HMH Heinemann teammates to leverage fully client input and feedback and share it within our community of services professionals.Convert market intelligence into comprehensive Services offerings:· Create framework and timeline for proposed deliverables.· Validate proposed solutions via internal and external discussions, speaking engagement, etc.· Pilot comprehensive solutions – independently, with HMH colleagues, clients, or associations/partners – to incubate and test new service offerings.· Build pilots with appropriate innovative delivery methodologies, working with delivery design lead.· Analyze success or shortcomings of incubation efforts to refine and prepare offerings.· Work with Operations Manager and LLC publications team to construct professional development and/or learning services and artifacts in accordance with standard practices.· Develop facilitation strategies for seminar delivery built on adult learning theory principles.· Train and certify LLC or other delivery teams in new content.Convey HMH thought-leadership on specific education areas via internal and external activities:· Speak at or serve on panel discussions at association and/or education events.· Write white papers that articulate the HMH position on new service areas (prime the pump).· Build reference list of clients (or incubation partners) and internal experts to market new services.· Participate actively in HMH and/or leading education social media channels.· eChats, Colloquy presentations, and/or other internal informational communication activities.· Provide sales support (e.g., proposal strategy, sales calls) and customer consultation as needed. Host periodic “think tank” activities with education experts and/or clients to generate feedback, guidance, and validate strategies and for discovery of new challenges and opportunities.
Requirements
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

MANAGEMENT/FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ability and courage to question present state, envision future state, and translate into high-impact services and products targeted to client demand• Ability to manage to project plans and deadline• Excellent presentation/training skills • Self-starter with strong teaming, organization, and collaboration skills• Strong analytical skills and business awareness• Ability to balance high-level, strategic thinking and tactical focus on delivery of specific work products• Excellent professional writing skills • Ensure development projects stay within budget• Manage T&E budget to meet full year commitments

• Manage resource and membership budget

Required:• Master’s Degree in Education or related field• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Professional Development, Educational Consulting and/or Research, or related field(s)• Educational expertise and experience working in/with school districts, state DOEs, for-profits, and/or other• Knowledge of adult learning principles and successful experience creating and delivering service offerings, products, or related deliverables• Demonstrated market expertise in the area of Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Interventional Strategies, Adult Education, or Workforce Development required.Preferred: • Advanced expertise on critical educational topics such as early childhood education, educational leadership, etc. • Experience in education environment as an instructor, leader, or other local or state administrator• Boston-based]]>Sat, 11 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2544915/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2544915/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: National Practice Director(home based,location open)
Published Division/Department: Corporate Education Services
Requisition #: 5803
State/Province/County: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 30% - 40%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Educational Consulting/Professional Services
The Education Practice Manger for Teaching with Technology and Teacher & Leader Effectiveness markets will leverage their expertise and experience to define and develop next-generation learning services and professional development for education leaders. Practice Managers will lead HMH’s thought leadership efforts on a specific discipline area(s), using research; market data, trends, and innovation; competitive intelligence; and work with association, government, and partner experts to create services and products that anticipate client needs and demands. Partnering with the HMH Leadership and Learning Center (LLC) – and across HMH (e.g., product development, assessment), the Practice Manager will be responsible for building a complete service offering to be marketed, sold, and delivered through the LLC’s service professionals and consultants.
Lead HMH design strategy for discipline-specific next-generation learning services offerings:· Track market trends, research, and innovations as well as legislative and competitive landscape to ensure that HMH is designing high-impact service offerings that anticipate client demand.· Monitor HMH product development, assessment, and services current offerings and pipeline plans to construct comprehensive solutions where appropriate.· Maintain regular communication with LLC and HMH Heinemann teammates to leverage fully client input and feedback and share it within our community of services professionals.Convert market intelligence into comprehensive Services offerings:· Create framework and timeline for proposed deliverables.· Validate proposed solutions via internal and external discussions, speaking engagement, etc.· Pilot comprehensive solutions – independently, with HMH colleagues, clients, or associations/partners – to incubate and test new service offerings.· Build pilots with appropriate innovative delivery methodologies, working with delivery design lead.· Analyze success or shortcomings of incubation efforts to refine and prepare offerings.· Work with Operations Manager and LLC publications team to construct professional development and/or learning services and artifacts in accordance with standard practices.· Develop facilitation strategies for seminar delivery built on adult learning theory principles.· Train and certify LLC or other delivery teams in new content.Convey HMH thought-leadership on specific education areas via internal and external activities:· Speak at or serve on panel discussions at association and/or education events.· Write white papers that articulate the HMH position on new service areas (prime the pump).· Build reference list of clients (or incubation partners) and internal experts to market new services.· Participate actively in HMH and/or leading education social media channels.· eChats, Colloquy presentations, and/or other internal informational communication activities.· Provide sales support (e.g., proposal strategy, sales calls) and customer consultation as needed. Host periodic “think tank” activities with education experts and/or clients to generate feedback, guidance, and validate strategies and for discovery of new challenges and opportunities.
Requirements
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

MANAGEMENT/FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Ability and courage to question present state, envision future state, and translate into high-impact services and products targeted to client demand• Ability to manage to project plans and deadline• Excellent presentation/training skills • Self-starter with strong teaming, organization, and collaboration skills• Strong analytical skills and business awareness• Ability to balance high-level, strategic thinking and tactical focus on delivery of specific work products• Excellent professional writing skills • Ensure development projects stay within budget• Manage T&E budget to meet full year commitments

• Manage resource and membership budget

Required:• Master’s Degree in Education or related field• Minimum 10 years’ experience in Professional Development, Educational Consulting and/or Research, or related field(s)• Educational expertise and experience working in/with school districts, state DOEs, for-profits, and/or other• Knowledge of adult learning principles and successful experience creating and delivering service offerings, products, or related deliverables• Demonstrated market expertise in the area of Early Childhood Education, Special Education and Interventional Strategies, Adult Education, or Workforce Development required.Preferred: • Advanced expertise on critical educational topics such as early childhood education, educational leadership, etc. • Experience in education environment as an instructor, leader, or other local or state administrator• Boston-based]]>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2559820/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-National-Practice-Director-Job-MA-02108/2559820/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Sales Enablement Analytics Manager (home based, location open)
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5781
State/Province/County: Massachusetts
City: Boston
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Sales / Business Development
- Identify, Design, Extract, Analyze and Report on a wide range of HMH performance metrics to demonstrate return on investment from Sales Enablement investment and Business Process Improvement.
- Collaborate with the Senior Director of Sales Enablement, the Senior Director of Digital Architecture, the Director of Enablement Delivery, the Directors of eLearning, and the SVP of Sales Enablement to identify priorities and processes for driving a data-driven culture across the HMH sales organization. Champion the integration and capture of relevant leading and lagging performance analytics in all Sales Enablement projects from design to deployment to final monetization.
- Maintain continual collaboration and coordination with HMH Sales Management and Sales Operations and Finance to insure Sales Enablement analytics become part of the way HMH monitors, empowers, and coaches all sales associates to high performance and reduced time to revenue.
- Identify learning requirements related to enablement analytics and promote continuous improvement in use of metrics to drive HMH success. Collaborate effectively with Sales Enablement Communications, HMH Corporate Communications and Marketing to ensure timely, complete and dynamic messaging is enabling the sales force.
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for the Sales Enablement team on the use of Salesforce.com, SAP/BW and other HMH financial and performance management systems. Provide analytics support to the Salesforce Constituent Group, the Salesforce Field Advisory Board, the Sales Advisory Council and Sales Leadership as required.

Requirements:
Understanding of the HMH solution sales environment and value propositions

High proficiency with, and certification in (where appropriate) the use of Salesforce.com, Cloud9, SAP/BW, and Microsoft Excel, Word and Access

Ability to identify the linkage between sales behaviors and their underlying metrics

Proven track record of meeting and exceeding project goals with exceptional record keeping and attention to detail.

Ability to perform root cause and correlation analysis as they relate to sales processes and performance and to coach sales leaders in using analytics to drive HMH business success

Knowledge of and experience in supporting sales leadership to achieve outstanding business results

Understanding of territory, account, opportunity and time management best practices in a complex revenue generating environment.

Ability to collaborate within and across functional areas including HMH senior leadership.

Strong communication skills in writing and presentation.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree

Certification in Microsoft Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Access

5+ years in using metrics in a sales support environment to drive sales performance

3+ years using Salesforce.com or comparable CRM

“Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V and member of e-Verify.”

*LI-CT1

J2W:CB Exp. 06/27/13]]>Wed, 01 May 2013 03:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-Sales-Enablement-Analytics-Manager-Job-MA-02108/2525727/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Boston-Sales-Enablement-Analytics-Manager-Job-MA-02108/2525727/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Sales Enablement Analytics Manager (home based, location open)
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5896
State/Province/County: Illinois
City: Rolling Meadows
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Sales / Business Development
- Identify, Design, Extract, Analyze and Report on a wide range of HMH performance metrics to demonstrate return on investment from Sales Enablement investment and Business Process Improvement.
- Collaborate with the Senior Director of Sales Enablement, the Senior Director of Digital Architecture, the Director of Enablement Delivery, the Directors of eLearning, and the SVP of Sales Enablement to identify priorities and processes for driving a data-driven culture across the HMH sales organization. Champion the integration and capture of relevant leading and lagging performance analytics in all Sales Enablement projects from design to deployment to final monetization.
- Maintain continual collaboration and coordination with HMH Sales Management and Sales Operations and Finance to insure Sales Enablement analytics become part of the way HMH monitors, empowers, and coaches all sales associates to high performance and reduced time to revenue.
- Identify learning requirements related to enablement analytics and promote continuous improvement in use of metrics to drive HMH success. Collaborate effectively with Sales Enablement Communications, HMH Corporate Communications and Marketing to ensure timely, complete and dynamic messaging is enabling the sales force.
- Serve as the Subject Matter Expert for the Sales Enablement team on the use of Salesforce.com, SAP/BW and other HMH financial and performance management systems. Provide analytics support to the Salesforce Constituent Group, the Salesforce Field Advisory Board, the Sales Advisory Council and Sales Leadership as required.

Requirements:
Understanding of the HMH solution sales environment and value propositions

High proficiency with, and certification in (where appropriate) the use of Salesforce.com, Cloud9, SAP/BW, and Microsoft Excel, Word and Access

Ability to identify the linkage between sales behaviors and their underlying metrics

Proven track record of meeting and exceeding project goals with exceptional record keeping and attention to detail.

Ability to perform root cause and correlation analysis as they relate to sales processes and performance and to coach sales leaders in using analytics to drive HMH business success

Knowledge of and experience in supporting sales leadership to achieve outstanding business results

Understanding of territory, account, opportunity and time management best practices in a complex revenue generating environment.

Ability to collaborate within and across functional areas including HMH senior leadership.

Strong communication skills in writing and presentation.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree

Certification in Microsoft Office skills including Excel, PowerPoint and Access

5+ years in using metrics in a sales support environment to drive sales performance

3+ years using Salesforce.com or comparable CRM

“Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V and member of e-Verify.”

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J2W:CB Exp. 06/27/13]]>Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Sales-Enablement-Analytics-Manager-%28home-based%2C-location-open%29-Job-IL-60008/2585555/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Rolling-Meadows-Sales-Enablement-Analytics-Manager-%28home-based%2C-location-open%29-Job-IL-60008/2585555/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Technical Associate Account Mgr
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5836
State/Province/County: California
City: Los Angeles
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 60% - 70%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Sales / Business Development

The Technical Account Manager position provides support and implementation services to Sales/Account Managers and their assigned accounts, assisting them in implementing and maintaining Riverside's technology platforms and other HMH product offerings. The Technical Account Manager position supports HMH meeting or exceeding annual renewal and expansion revenue objectives by maintaining a high degree of customer satisfaction. The Technical Account Manager position works with both existing customers, and also offers pre-sales support to obtain new customers. This position covers both new sales generation and existing customer retention.
Requirements · Technical aptitude to solve complex issues· Strong communication skills· Client relationship management
- Strong decision-making skills Organizational and priority awareness]]>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Los-Angeles-Technical-Associate-Account-Mgr-Job-CA-90001/2559823/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Los-Angeles-Technical-Associate-Account-Mgr-Job-CA-90001/2559823/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Channel Sales Manager - Location Nationwide (open)
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5591
State/Province/County: Texas
City: Austin
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 20% - 30%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Sales / Business Development
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OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY

The CMs will collaborate with partner Office-Based Account Executive(s) to develop, execute, and revise quarterly and yearly Sales Plans specific to their assigned states/region/area in order to meet individual and team sales goals. They direct the selling, proposal development strategy, project plan and execution of HMH Professional Development and Professional Services proposals for the K-12 market, with an emphasis on creating new client partner relationships and on leveraging existing HMH relationships when appropriate. CMs will effectively interact with all levels of school leadership, from site Principals to district Superintendents, in order to develop lasting relationships that result in solution oriented sales. They create and execute regional communications strategies and messaging for all Professional Development and Professional Service opportunities and wins, including all relevant audiences – customer, internal, and external stakeholders.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Maximize new client acquisition and grow market footprint by leveraging deep knowledge of assigned territory, educational trends, prospective client profiles, and available PD services to develop opportunities, working collaboratively with multiple HMH channels/resources to ensure maximum reach into pool of potential clients

Generate new client opportunities through established and emerging lead source channels (e.g., HMH referrals, conferences, webinars, website, current clients, publication orders, RFPs, trade shows, etc.) and bring those opportunities to a successful close

Support Office-Based Account Executive(s) ongoing account management contact with Professional Development and Professional Service clients to assess ongoing needs and position HMH service solutions as appropriate

Collaborate with Thought Leadership and Marketing departments to exchange reciprocal market and customer data to inform IP development and launch plans that meet market demands and increase the relevancy and positioning of service solution suites

Accurate and consistent reporting of territory and client account status through CRM system

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Deep understanding of the K-12 Educational market trends and issues

Microsoft Office Suite

CRM (Dynamics, Salesforce)

Effective time management and communication via phone, emails, and site visits with clients, including the drafting/presenting/revising of written proposals

Successfully conducts comprehensive needs assessment with clients for a solution-based sales approach

Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a high pressure sales environment

Requirements:
Required:

BA/BS degree in related area, or equivalent experience

10 + years of related industry experience, including professional development sales, account management, proposal writing, consultative selling, SME relationships.

“Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V and member of e-Verify.”

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J2W:CB Exp. 06/27/13]]>Thu, 09 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Austin-Channel-Sales-Manager-Location-Nationwide-%28open%29-Job-TX-73301/2423594/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Austin-Channel-Sales-Manager-Location-Nationwide-%28open%29-Job-TX-73301/2423594/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS Published Job Title: Account Executive
Published Division/Department: US Sales
Requisition #: 5668
State/Province/County: Colorado
City: Denver
Country: United States
Percentage of Travel: 10% - 20%
Position Type: Full Time - Regular
Shift: 1st Shift
Interest Category: Sales / Business Development

OVERALL RESPONSIBILITY:

The AEs will collaborate with partner Field-Based Account Executive(s) to develop, execute, and revise quarterly and yearly Sales Plans specific to their assigned states/region/area in order to meet individual and team sales goals. They direct the selling, proposal development strategy, project plan and execution of HMH Professional Development and Professional Services proposals for the K-12 market. AEs will effectively interact with all levels of school leadership, from site Principals to district Superintendents, in order to develop lasting relationships that result in solution oriented sales. They maintain ongoing account management contact with Professional Development and Professional Service clients to assess ongoing needs and position HMH service solutions as appropriate

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Maximize client cultivation and grow market footprint from the current base of business by leveraging deep knowledge of current clients and PD services to develop opportunities, working collaboratively with Logistics Coordinators and Consultants to ensure client retention and expansion

Generate new client opportunities through established and emerging lead source channels (e.g., conferences, webinars, website, current clients, publication orders, RFPs, trade shows, etc.) and bring those opportunities to a successful close

Support Field-Based Account Executive(s) with the needs assessments and proposal development for prospective new clients identified through various HMH field channels

Collaborate with Thought Leadership and Marketing departments to exchange reciprocal market and customer data to inform IP development and launch plans that meet market demands and increase the relevancy and positioning of service solution suites

Accurate and consistent reporting of territory and client account status through CRM system

Requirements:
SKILLS/COMPETENCIES REQUIRED

Deep understanding of the K-12 Educational market trends and issues

Microsoft Office Suite

CRM (Dynamics, Salesforce)

Effective time management and communication via phone, emails, and site visits with clients, including the drafting/presenting/revising of written proposals

Successfully conducts comprehensive needs assessment with clients for a solution-based sales approach

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE

Required:

Ability to travel 20%

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

3+ years of related industry experience (sales or education)

Preferred:

Master’s degree in a related field

5+ years in educational sales (PD, intervention, basal, supplemental)]]>Sun, 05 May 2013 02:59:00 GMThttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Denver-Account-Executive-Job-CO-80002/2470417/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSShttp://careers.hmhco.com/job/Denver-Account-Executive-Job-CO-80002/2470417/?utm_source=J2WRSS&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=J2W%5FRSS