Lead Specialist, Product Management

Pearson•Hoboken, NJ

1d•Remote

About The Position

Join our Team today! Pearson is evolving into a strategic partner, empowering enterprise organizations to navigate market shifts, future-proof talent, and drive measurable impact through AI assessments, workforce analytics, and accredited learning. Your Opportunity 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