Principal, Product Management

Pearson • Hoboken, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Pearson is seeking a passionate and skilled Senior Product Manager to drive the development of cutting-edge educational products. The Product Excellence team aims to transform how products are built by empowering product teams to solve customer and business problems. This role is part of an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, focusing on innovation and acceleration initiatives, particularly with AI-related features. The position combines technical expertise, product management execution, and a coaching mindset, involving running sprints, building prototypes, developing business cases, and creating integration roadmaps. The role requires flexibility between hands-on execution and coaching colleagues on product management practices, discovery, technical modernization, and new ways of working.

Requirements

• 5/6+ years of product management experience with demonstrable technical and/or AI/ML exposure
• Strong technical background or proven ability to work effectively with engineering teams
• Track record shipping technical products and building prototypes
• Experience with agile methodologies and running product sprints, with a strongly data driven mindset
• Understanding of implementation of AI/ML technologies and modern product development practices
• Excellent coaching and communication skills with ability to influence without authority

Nice To Haves

• Experience with generative AI, LLMs, or emerging AI technologies
• Background working with startups, innovation teams, or in fast-paced environments
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience in learning technologies or educational product development
• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving capabilities

Responsibilities

• 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 modernisation efforts
• 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
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Annual incentive program
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree