# Lead Academic Program Manager

**Company**: Western Governors University (WGU)
**Location**: Salt Lake City, UT
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,000.00 - $190,700.00
**Category**: Education
**Industry**: Education

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## Description

As Lead Academic Program Manager in WGU School of Technology, you will be responsible for the overall end-to-end ownership of a program through its entire lifecycle.

This includes:

- Pre-definition research: market-segment selection, targeted skills, market demand for graduates, student demand, competitive analysis, portfolio strategy, pricing, program requirements, and program level P&L

- Building and launching the program: working with academic program directors and subject matter experts to define the curriculum, and working with the program development team to build and launch the program

- Tracking post-launch adoption: working with marketing and partnership teams to drive adoption, monitoring student success, and making adjustments to improve student outcomes and market relevance

Responsibilities:

- Drives a culture of continuous experimentation, measurement, and learning from data

- Leads academic program leaders, instructional faculty, and student coaches/mentors

- Influences others and communicates effectively

- Collaborates with cross-functional teams

- Manages ambiguity and uncertainty

- Drives for results and achieves goals

- Builds effective teams

- Organizational learning and innovation

Requirements:

- Master's degree in a business or technical field

- 3-5 years of professional experience in Cybersecurity, AI, or Technical Product Management

- 4+ years of related experience in program P&L responsibility, educational program management, and student outcomes

- Experience owning a product or program across its full lifecycle

Preferred Qualifications:

- Doctorate degree in a relevant area

- Experience in higher education

- CISSP, CISM, or AI-related certifications

- Experience in developing online education programs

Benefits:

- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth, and mental healthcare

- Health savings account and flexible spending account

- Basic and voluntary life insurance

- Disability coverage

- Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages

- Legal and identity theft coverage

- Retirement savings plan

- Wellbeing program

- Discounted WGU tuition

- Flexible paid time off and sick time

- 11 paid holidays and other paid leaves

## Skills

### Required
- Cybersecurity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Technical Product Management
- Educational Program Management
- Leadership
- Communication
- Collaboration

### Nice to have
- CISSP
- CISM
- AI-related certifications
- Higher Education
- Online Education Programs

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