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Senior Product Manager

At Pearson, we are committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. We create innovative and accessible educational products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Product Manager to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge educational products.

We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard problemscustomer problems and business problemsin ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Product companies depend on strong products, and strong products come from strong product teams. And we recognize that product teams are only as strong as their product managers. The Product Excellence team brings together exceptional product managers and leaders to tackle Pearson's most complex challenges, while transforming how we build products. We're on a mission to create the capabilities, culture, and operating model that empower product teams to consistently deliver breakthrough outcomes for learners and the business.

We're seeking an innovative Senior Product Manager to support innovation and acceleration initiatives across our product portfolio, with some likely focus on AI-related features. This hands-on role combines technical expertise with product management execution and a coaching mindset. You'll run sprints with internal teams and start-ups, build prototypes and features with engineering teams, also helping develop business cases and integration roadmaps. This role requires flexibility between hands-on execution with practitioner credibility as well as coaching, facilitation, and teaching of colleagues on product management practices, discovery, technical modernization, and ways of working.

Key responsibilities include :

• AI & Technical Product Delivery
• Run sprints with internal and external engineering teams, to drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation with a data-driven, learning-hungry mindset
• Build working product prototypes and features in collaboration with engineering teams
• Develop compelling business cases and integration roadmaps for AI initiatives
• Help teams solve complex technical challenges and drive modernization efforts
• Product Management Excellence
• Coach teams on product management best practices, discovery methods, and ways of working
• Facilitate discovery sessions and help teams integrate discovery into their backlogs, helping teams manage parallel tracks of discovery and execution
• Guide teams in developing high-quality MRDs, PRDs, and refining work into shippable iterations
• Flex between hands-on execution and coaching to build team capabilities
• Collaboration & Enablement
• Embed into business units to support customer-centric roadmaps and strategic planning
• Role model interactions with engineering, design, and other stakeholders
• Help enable the change to new ways of working and practices that make a difference
• Process & Practice Development
• Help teams refine work into reasonable chunks and maintain effective backlogs
• Support continuous process improvement and practice optimization
• Identify and implement practices to optimize product development cycles

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What you'll love about this role :

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. The minimum full-time salary range is between $150,000 - $180,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is available here.

Applications will be accepted through November 10th, 2025. This window may be extended depending on business needs.

At Pearson, our purpose is simple : to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.