Technology Lead, Experience Engineering - Cengage Group

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What you'll do here:

In your role as Technology Lead, Experience Engineering within our Digital organization, you are responsible for delivering customer-facing marketing website and ecommerce experiences. Specifically, you will lead our Experience Engineering team, focused on building and optimizing digital experiences that drive engagement and conversion. As a technology leader, you will build and lead a lean, high-performing team using agile principles to design and deliver scalable, high-quality solutions. With a strong customer-centric perspective, you will focus on delivering measurable improvements in user engagement, performance, and business outcomes. You will also play a key role in advancing how AI is applied within engineering workflows, helping the team operate more efficiently and effectively.

As the Technology Lead, you will divide your time between team leadership and hands-on development, leading engineers while contributing directly to delivery. You will partner closely with Marketing, Design, Platform Engineering, and DevOps, using data and insights to guide decisions and continuously improve the customer experience. You will collaborate with other technology leads to provide technical direction and alignment across teams, and must be comfortable adapting your leadership style to the situation, leading when needed and contributing as an individual engineer when appropriate.

Job Duties

Embrace agile methodologies and a customer-centric digital experience model to drive iterative development and rapid time-to-market

Lead delivery of customer-facing features across web and ecommerce

Define, prioritize, and communicate work clearly across Marketing, Design, and Eng