Lead Specialist, Product Management

Senior Product Manager Location: Remote, US Role Summary Senior Product Manager is responsible for owning and scaling our product adoption and fulfillment ecosystem, enabling instructor adoption and student access through accurate product metadata, offers, and entitlements. You will focus on how a variety of personas accessing Pearson products, and how to best integrate our experience across the Higher Education Institutional ecosystem. You will drive innovative ideas, solutions, processes, and products with decisive action. You will work collaboratively with other product management teams across Pearson to ensure integrated use cases are considered and supported, and you will work directly with development teams who build features specifically geared toward improving the integration and access journey of our customers. You will become an expert in the Pearson systems and tools that enable customers to adopt, integrate, purchase, and access materials seamlessly. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is detail-oriented and able to manage complex projects. The candidate must be a team player and strong communicator who can build relationships with stakeholders on various teams and levels across the organization. Job Responsibilities: Serve as technical product manager for new integration feature development, creating requirements, managing backlog, prioritizing development, and engaging directly with engineering team Collaborate with UX, CX, product managers, and other cross-functional teams across Pearson to ensure use cases are understood and requirements are implemented according to user needs Lead and support continual process improvement by proposing and solutioning optimizations for access and integration workflows and user experiences Work with Director of Product Management to define product roadmap and growth opportunities Lead creation of product-related documentation and go-to-market activities Analyze usage data and customer feedback to inform roadmap and prioritization of requirements Thinking from a data-first mentality, incorporating data wherever possible for informed decision-making and development Develop rapport and trust with key stakeholders across Pearson business units Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or a minimum 5+ years' experience in product management Demonstrated prior experience leading cross-functional projects and building cross-platform solutions Experience building and managing APIs, technical integrations, or platforms Ability to work closely with engineering teams to design scalable solutions Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (Tableau, Snowflake and Google BigQuery) Experience with Agile development methodologies and prioritizing backlogs for development teams; experience with Jira and Confluence is a plus Detail-oriented, with ability to prioritize roadmaps and workload Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, for both technical and non-technical topics Project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills Strong listener, with ability to interview customers and stakeholders to understand what problems we need to solve for and translate those into product requirements Strong team-player attitude, with ability to work well independently Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint Demonstrated ability and desire to successfully work on a virtual team Applications will be accepted through June 13. This window may be extended depending on business needs. Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: The full-time salary range for this role is between $120,000 - $150,000 This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here Apply To This Job