GVP, Product Management

Wiley

3d • $218,900 - $328,567

About The Position

The Group Vice President, Product Management is a senior executive leader charged with building and elevating Wiley’s product management capability for the Research and Publishing Solutions business. This is an entrepreneurial executive who will architect the product organization, establish the operating model, and set a bold, AI-first product strategy that drives differentiation in a rapidly evolving scholarly publishing and research services market. Consistent with Wiley’s evolving operating model for AI and platform businesses, this leader will be a technically fluent product executive who champions AI-first thinking across the portfolio, embeds AI solutions and AI product management practices into how the team works, and partners closely with technology to shape how product and engineering collaborate in an AI-native software delivery environment, aligning team topology, delivery rhythm, and technical choices with product strategy and resourcing decisions. This leader will drive a use case–oriented, iterative approach to product development — anchoring roadmaps in concrete customer and business use cases and evolving solutions rapidly through short, evidence-based cycles rather than long, speculative build phases. Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Research, this leader will establish structure, rhythm, and rigor where new foundations are needed — and accelerate what is already working. With two VP-level direct reports, they will build a cohesive product leadership team and create the conditions for world-class product execution at scale. This role is specifically scoped as a builder opportunity. The incoming leader will be expected to: Define the product management operating model: how teams are structured, how roadmaps are built and governed, how product decisions are made and communicated. Establish cross-functional partnership norms with technology, editorial, sales, marketing, and finance that did not previously exist or need to be reset. Drive Go-To-Market / Commercial enablement across Wiley’s Research and Publishing Solutions. Partner with technology leadership to evolve the product–engineering operating model for an AI-era SDLC: how squads are scoped around bounded contexts, how team APIs are defined, and drive agent-assisted development change capacity planning and resource allocation. Introduce disciplined product frameworks — customer discovery, outcome-based roadmapping, portfolio investment logic — and create the cultural conditions for them to take root. Instill AI-first thinking as a default mode of product management: identify and prioritize AI solutions against concrete customer and business use cases, and drive use case–oriented, iterative development so the team ships and learns in short cycles rather than committing to long speculative builds. Develop the VP-level product leaders into a unified leadership team with shared standards, language, and accountability. Earn a seat at the executive table quickly by delivering early wins while building for long-term product capability and market differentiation.

Requirements

• Senior executive leader charged with building and elevating Wiley’s product management capability for the Research and Publishing Solutions business.
• Entrepreneurial executive who will architect the product organization, establish the operating model, and set a bold, AI-first product strategy.
• Technically fluent product executive who champions AI-first thinking across the portfolio.
• Embeds AI solutions and AI product management practices into how the team works.
• Partners closely with technology to shape how product and engineering collaborate in an AI-native software delivery environment.
• Drives a use case–oriented, iterative approach to product development.
• Anchors roadmaps in concrete customer and business use cases.
• Evolves solutions rapidly through short, evidence-based cycles rather than long, speculative build phases.
• Establishes structure, rhythm, and rigor where new foundations are needed.
• Builds a cohesive product leadership team and creates the conditions for world-class product execution at scale.
• Define the product management operating model: how teams are structured, how roadmaps are built and governed, how product decisions are made and communicated.
• Establish cross-functional partnership norms with technology, editorial, sales, marketing, and finance that did not previously exist or need to be reset.
• Drive Go-To-Market / Commercial enablement across Wiley’s Research and Publishing Solutions
• Partner with technology leadership to evolve the product–engineering operating model for an AI-era SDLC: how squads are scoped around bounded contexts, how team APIs are defined, and drive agent-assisted development change capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Introduce disciplined product frameworks — customer discovery, outcome-based roadmapping, portfolio investment logic — and create the cultural conditions for them to take root.
• Instill AI-first thinking as a default mode of product management: identify and prioritize AI solutions against concrete customer and business use cases, and drive use case–oriented, iterative development so the team ships and learns in short cycles rather than committing to long speculative builds.
• Develop the VP-level product leaders into a unified leadership team with shared standards, language, and accountability.
• Earn a seat at the executive table quickly by delivering early wins while building for long-term product capability and market differentiation.
• Deep, first-hand understanding of the scholarly publishing and research technology stack: research integrity and peer review workflows, manuscript triage and editorial systems, research data management, content syndication and rights, AI agent distribution protocols, and the standards landscape (NISO, STM, COUNTER).
• Ability to sustain and extend Wiley’s competitive differentiation in research and publishing technology, not only in content.

Nice To Haves

• AI-first thinking across the portfolio
• AI product management practices
• AI-native software delivery environment
• Agent-assisted development
• AI-era SDLC
• AI solutions against concrete customer and business use cases
• AI product management through a use case–oriented, iterative development approach
• AI solutions prioritized against validated use cases

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year product strategy for Wiley’s research and publishing solutions portfolio, grounded in AI-first thinking.
• Translate business objectives and market dynamics into a coherent product vision that guides investment decisions, roadmap prioritization, and team focus, and drive AI product management through a use case–oriented, iterative development approach that identifies high-value AI solutions and validates them quickly with customers.
• Clearly define product roadmaps with long-term vision developed and aligned with broader business and technology teams, with AI solutions prioritized against validated use cases and delivered through iterative, use case–oriented development cycles.
• Own the end-to-end product portfolio across research publishing, author solutions, and related platform offerings. Balance sustaining innovation with new growth opportunities and rationalize the portfolio in alignment with Wiley’s strategic priorities and commercial targets.
• Drive Go-To-Market / Commercial enablement across Wiley’s Research and Publishing Solutions
• Drive enhancements and innovation to product portfolio enabling business performance
• Shape Wiley’s research publishing platform as programmable scholarly infrastructure: stable, versioned APIs that authors, societies, partner publishers, and third-party agent frameworks build on directly. Treat API and platform products as first-class commercial offerings, not back-of-house integration plumbing, and align the platform roadmap with the evolving agent-caller economy.
• Future-forward vision for sustainable evolution of platforms
• Lead, structure, and grow a high-performing product management organization through two VP-level leaders. Establish capability standards, career frameworks, and a culture of customer obsession, disciplined execution, and continuous learning.
• Define integration strategy across the portfolio, covering external systems used by authors, institutions and societies.
• Build high-performing team of product managers.
• Serve as a key member of the Research and Learning leadership team. Partner with technology, sales, marketing, editorial, and finance to align product investment with business outcomes, revenue targets, and customer value creation.
• Effective partnership development and alignment of strategy.
• Maintain a deep, first-hand understanding of the scholarly publishing and research technology stack: research integrity and peer review workflows, manuscript triage and editorial systems, research data management, content syndication and rights, AI agent distribution protocols, and the standards landscape (NISO, STM, COUNTER). Use that fluency to sustain and extend Wiley’s competitive differentiation in research and publishing technology, not only in content.
• Establish an insight and analytics system across researcher/author/reviewer/ institutional journeys
• Partner with finance and the EVP to develop and manage product investment plans, resource allocation, and ROI frameworks. Bring rigor to build-buy-partner decisions and ensure portfolio investments deliver measurable business impact.
• Effective utilization and procurement of resources to obtain strategic vision and enablement.

Benefits

• Meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development
• Robust body of employee programming facilitating a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow
• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive benefits package

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed