About this role
Metadata Specialist
Overview
Build the Future
At McGraw Hill, we create best-in-class, next-generation learning platforms that are used by millions of students and educators worldwide every day. We design intuitive and effective tools and experiences that maximize instructors’ time and students’ learning. We do all of this in a supportive and collaborative environment where we work alongside brilliant colleagues, touch lives around the world, see the difference our hard work makes, and continue our paths of lifelong learning.
Your impact on the team:
As a Metadata Specialist, you will bring expertise in learning objectives, competencies, taxonomies/ontologies, and educational metadata that support higher education content and learning services. In this role, you will partner with editorial, product, technical, and data science teams to improve metadata design, implementation, and ongoing use. Bringing strong collaboration skills and metadata expertise, you will help connect educational frameworks to scalable content and learning experience. As part of a growing metadata team, you will help enable innovative learning experiences through high-quality metadata, careful measurement, meaningful analytics, and AI-accelerated tools.
This is a remote position open to applicants within the United States and requires up to 15% travel for the year.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner with subject matter experts, product managers, and metadata team members to develop and maintain learning ontologies, taxonomies, and controlled vocabularies for higher education.
- Develop and manage workflows for mapping metadata across diverse content types and disciplines in collaboration with subject matter experts, product managers, and metadata colleagues.
- Coordinate with technical teams to identify, improve, and scale tools and processes that support metadata management and use.
- Collaborate with learning scientists and data scientists to identify opportunities for metadata inference, quality assurance, and continuous improvement.
- Help develop and maintain documentation describing metadata models, standards, and use cases for product and design teams.
- Use data tools such as spreadsheets, database queries, and programming or scripting languages to analyze complex metadata requirements, explore internal and external metadata use cases, and recommend enhancements.
- Support metadata quality, consistency, discoverability, and interoperability across content, platforms, and learning experiences.
We’re looking for someone with:
- A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in education, learning sciences, information science, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in education, educational publishing, learning design, metadata, or a related area.
- At least 2 years of direct experience working with learning objectives, competencies, standards, or related metadata, ideally in personalized or adaptive learning contexts.
- Experience with higher education content, including digital courseware, e-books, assessments, or related instructional materials.
- Knowledge of metadata concepts such as taxonomies, ontologies, controlled vocabularies, tagging, and other content classification.
- Growth mindset and open to change, with a positive attitude and interest in improving over time.
- Self-motivated and well-organized; able to prioritize tasks and work well under pressure.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with metadata platforms, frameworks, or workflows used in multiple higher education contexts.
- Familiarity with accessibility standards and educational content practices.
- Experience with personalization, recommendation, or adaptive learning tools.
- Interest in or experience using generative AI tools for metadata enrichment, content workflows, or educational interactions.
- Experience working with JIRA, Confluence, Teams, and Slack.
Why McGraw Hill?
The pay range for this position is between $97,200-$125,000 annually. However, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. Additionally, a full range of medical and/or other benefits may be provided, depending on the position offered. Click here to learn more about our benefit offerings.
McGraw Hill recruiters always use a “@mheducation.com” email address and/or from our Applicant Tracking System, iCIMS. Any variation of this email domain should be considered suspicious. Additionally, McGraw Hill recruiters and authorized representatives will never request sensitive information in email.
51330 McGraw Hill uses an automated employment decision tool (AEDT) to assist in the screening process by recommending candidates with “like skills” based on resume and job data. To request an alternative screening process, please select “Opt-Out” when asked to “Consent to use of Automated Employment Decision Tools” during the application.
Transcript
So what makes the culture at McGraw Hill unique? It's the people, of course. We have great leaders. They care about the employees. They make fun of themselves. They are willing to listen to opposing viewpoints. We have a talented and passionate workforce focused on customers and on solutions. We have a great working environment. It's flexible, it's collaborative, it's inclusive. All ideas are welcome. McGraw Hill cares about its employees, its people, and you feel that every day.
PausePlay
% buffered00:00
00:00
UnmuteMute
Settings
CaptionsDisabled Transcript Disabled
CaptionsBack to captions menu DisabledEnglishENEspañolESDeutscheDE中文ZHFrançaisFR
Exit fullscreenEnter fullscreen
What makes the company culture unique at McGraw Hill?
Sylvia
Superintendent in Residence
Apply
McGraw Hill is committed to celebrating and supporting the differences that make us each unique and will not discriminate based on a person's gender, gender identity or expression, nationality, color, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, appearance or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we will also provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
McGraw Hill participates in E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility. For more information, please review the E-Verify Participation Poster and Right to Work Poster. Applicants can also view Federal and State Labor law posters here.
Follow McGraw Hill:
McGraw Hill is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please click here.
TERMS OF USE
PRIVACY CENTER
REPORT PIRACY
Accessibility
©2026 McGraw Hill. All Rights Reserved.
×
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
McGraw Hill is committed to celebrating and supporting the differences that make us each unique and will not discriminate based on a person's gender, gender identity or expression, nationality, color, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, appearance or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we will also provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities. We also support our employees' and job applicants' rights to discuss compensation. Click here to learn more.