Lead Specialist, Product Management

Pearson • Hoboken, NJ

1d • Remote

About The Position

Help shape how millions of learners and professionals carry, share, and use verified learning and education records. As Lead Specialsit, Product Manager Pearson's working with our learning credential wallet product roadmap and our existing Credly Workforce product model, you’ll lead delivery at the intersection of verifiable credentials, workforce mobility, and learner identity. You’ll turn bold ideas into real, shipped experiences—working side-by-side with engineering and design—and help define what “credentialing in a wallet-first world” looks like.

Requirements

• Adaptability: Navigate change, re-prioritize fast, and keep teams moving
• Artificial Intelligence: Use AI concepts/tools to streamline work and unlock new ideas
• Business Acumen: Tie product choices to strategy, metrics, and outcomes
• Customer Discovery: Find customer truths and turn insights into product bets
• Data Analysis: Use data (and judgment) to decide and validate impact
• Design Thinking: Apply a human-centered approach from discovery to launch
• Product Development: Drive delivery from idea to launch to iteration
• Product Requirements Documents: Create and maintain PRDs that align teams and enable execution
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build alignment fast and communicate tradeoffs
• Strategic Thinking: Set direction, connect dots, and make smart bets in ambiguity
• Storytelling: Make complex ideas simple so people align and act
• Technology Roadmap: Align teams on now/next/later—and why
• Value Proposition: Clearly state value and deliver experiences customers choose
• Proven product management experience, ideally shipping digital products at scale
• Strong track record delivering complex, cross-functional features and projects end-to-end
• Experience partnering closely with UX and engineering in a collaborative, iterative environment
• Comfort with agile methodologies and fast-paced delivery cycles

Nice To Haves

• Experience with digital wallets, verifiable credentials, or open credentialing standards (e.g., Open Badges, W3C Verifiable Credentials, CLR) is a plus—but not required; we’ll help you ramp up quickly

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of prioritized features across Pearson Wallet and Credly Workforce—keeping work tightly aligned to business goals and real learner outcomes
• Translate business needs into crisp, actionable requirements and documentation so teams can build with clarity and confidence
• Partner day-to-day with engineering, UX, and cross-functional stakeholders to unblock work, sharpen scope, and ship on a predictable cadence
• Coach and mentor teammates on product craft, process, and technical fluency—raising the bar for how we build
• Surface risks, dependencies, and gaps early—and drive them to resolution before they slow delivery

Benefits

• Sales incentive plan
• Information on benefits offered is here [https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/&data=04|01|[email protected]|2c256513c79f4679be7c08d9e7287ebb|8cc434d797d047d3b5c514fe0e33e34b|0|0|637794983376381246|Unknown|TWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0=|3000&sdata=t1YQPUL7BgoclUd7yE2i86QAirLf4z3z8OEWgr42q7c=&reserved=0]

What This Job Offers

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