Director, New Media Product Development

Position yourself at the forefront of the education revolution.

Drive the growth of one of Americas most successful for-profit education companies. Were Kaplan Higher Education , a thriving division of Kaplan, Inc.,  and The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO). Our high professional standards have resulted in tremendous success -- we now serve over 80,000 students on more than 70 campus-based and online schools across the United States and Europe.

We seek an energetic, resourceful Director of New Products to drive a comprehensive re-design of higher education program delivery for our ground campus division (KHEC). You will establish and manage a focused team to design exciting, new media programs, modifying existing products to incorporate technology in program delivery. The Director will develop metrics for tracking the effectiveness of new delivery methods, report against those metrics, and institute a process of continuous improvement to ensure that products provide students with outstanding outcomes.

Specific Responsibilities:

- Direct the design, development, measurement, and improvement of new media products for KHEC, communicating project priorities and timelines to multiple stakeholders.
- Manage the new media team, driving staff to produce superior product and meet critical deadlines under pressure and supervise new media team operations, including managing employee training and performance management.
- Create a working environment that is results-oriented, effective, and fun for employees.
- Collaborate effectively across departments, especially with curriculum team, faculty, analytical team, field operations teams, and new programs team.
- Develop, manage, and report against metrics to evaluate product outcomes - and drive the improvement of outcomes via focused product development.
- Continuously increase knowledge of field in order to recommend new products and/or revisions of current products in collaboration with business and academic teams.
- Perform other duties, as assigned

Experience/Skills Required:

- Masters Degree; MBA preferred.
- 7-10 years experience.
- Outstanding experience managing projects involving technology implementations across multiple sites.
- Experience developing education products and proprietary higher education curriculum is strongly preferred.
- Must display the highest levels of integrity and sound judgment.
- Superior ability with MS Office, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Outstanding oral and written communication skills and ability to multi-task effectively, juggling multiple priorities.
- Ability to manage others with sound judgment, good humor, and consistent fairness in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment and operate independently without direct supervision.
- Ability to work in a collaborate fashion with colleagues at all levels: supervisor, peers, direct reports, and subordinates.
- Must demonstrate a passion for improving teaching and learning
- Willingness to travel, as required

Kaplan Higher Education is a unit of Kaplan, Inc., a worldwide education services provider and a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company (NYSE: WPO)