Specialist, Product Management (MTSS)
About The Position
Pearson’s School Assessment organization is seeking a Specialist, Product Manager to lead the strategic expansion of universal screening and progress monitoring measures and platform capabilities within the Measurement & Learning team. The role owns the MTSS product roadmap and guides what the organization builds, how products are brought to market, and how districts use them effectively. It combines product strategy and delivery with hands-on commercialization, including RFP support, sales and implementation enablement, and training materials. The position works with educators and district leaders, and with teams across Psychometrics, Research, Content, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Professional Learning, and Partner Success. Its aim is to make reliable assessment results easier to collect, understand, and use to support students. The role shapes the MTSS assessment experience across Pearson School Assessment products, helping schools identify needs early, monitor whether support is working, and respond to help students grow.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree.
- At least 3 years of experience with K-12 universal screening, progress monitoring, early literacy or numeracy assessment, or MTSS implementation.
- At least 3 years in product management, product development, or related roles.
- Experience owning a product roadmap and delivering digital products or significant product capabilities.
- Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem definition, and solution validation.
- Ability to translate complex assessment and learning needs into clear product priorities, requirements, and customer-facing explanations.
- Experience working across technical, research or content, and commercial teams to deliver and launch products.
- Strong writing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate with educators, district leaders, and internal teams.
- Comfort using qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate opportunities and results.
- Initiative, sound judgment, and the ability to drive work to completion amid ambiguity.
Nice To Haves
- Understanding of assessment concepts such as reliability, validity, norms, and appropriate score interpretation.
- Experience expanding an assessment portfolio or developing assessment administration and reporting capabilities.
- Experience supporting RFPs, state approval processes, sales enablement, and professional learning.
- Understanding of district assessment operations, including administration windows, accommodations, rostering, and implementation.
Responsibilities
- Own and communicate the MTSS roadmap, connecting investments in screening, progress monitoring, reporting, and related workflows into a coherent product direction.
- Identify opportunities for new and improved screening and progress monitoring measures, and partner with psychometrics, research, and content teams to define needs, evaluate evidence, and bring measures to market.
- Own priorities for administration, scoring, reporting, goal setting, and progress monitoring workflows; translate educator needs into requirements and guide development through launch.
- Work with teachers, interventionists, school leaders, and district teams to understand how products can improve universal screening, identification of students for support, monitoring response to intervention, and adjustment of plans.
- Build and communicate a roadmap grounded in customer needs, assessment evidence, market opportunities, and business goals; define success measures and make prioritization decisions.
- Partner with Sales and Marketing on positioning, launches, demonstrations, and customer-facing materials; provide product and assessment expertise for RFPs, state submissions, and other strategic opportunities.
- Create or guide product guidance and sales enablement materials, and partner with Professional Learning to ensure external training materials accurately explain workflows, result interpretation, and effective use.
- Use product data, customer feedback, and research to assess adoption, identify gaps, and guide future investment.
Benefits
- Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.
- Benefits are offered; details are linked in the job posting.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
