Sr Product Manager I - Strategic Innovation

Elsevier • New York, CT

3d • $104,900 - $209,700 • Remote

About The Position

Senior Product Manager 1 - Strategic Innovation Are you energized by building AI-first solutions that transform how thousands of colleagues’ work? Do you thrive on partnering with engineers to ship fast, learn faster, and turn complex workflows into measurable productivity gains? About the team, Elsevier is launching Embedded Innovation Squads to help teams across the organization benefit from GenAI and automation in practical, scalable, and well-supported ways. The program embeds small, dedicated, cross-functional teams directly within business functions to identify high-value productivity opportunities and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and speed. About the role, we are looking for a Strategic thinking Senior Product Manager to join an Innovation Squad and lead discovery, prioritization, and delivery of internal productivity solutions. Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company that primarily focuses on providing scientific, technical, and medical (STM) research content, tools, and services. It is one of the largest publishers of academic journals and scholarly literature in the world. Elsevier operates in various domains, including science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and more. They publish a vast number of peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of disciplines. These journals act as platforms for researchers and academics to share their findings and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective fields. In addition to publishing, Elsevier offers a suite of digital solutions and services to support researchers, scientists, and professionals in their work. They provide online platforms like ScienceDirect, Scopus, and Mendeley, which offer access to a vast repository of scholarly articles, research papers, and other scientific content. These platforms often serve as essential resources for software developers seeking to stay updated with the latest scientific advancements. Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence. By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission-critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most. We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all. With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier. Elsevier is part of RELX Group. Let’s shape progress together. Join us. elsevier.com/about/careers

Requirements

• Possess current and extensive product management experience delivering software solutions in an agile environment, preferably with internal or operational focus
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and modern automation concepts with ability to stay current on technical and product advances relevant to workplace productivity
• Experience building or managing AI-enabled workflow tools, process automation, and productivity systems, especially in enterprise environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead workflow discovery, define productivity problems clearly, and convert operational ambiguity into prioritized roadmaps and shipped solutions
• Extensive partnership skills with engineering teams and stakeholders, including comfort making pragmatic build/buy/partner tradeoffs
• Experience defining operational metrics and using workflow data to drive product decisions and iteration cycles
• Proven success delivering complex, cross-functional productivity initiatives that deliver measurable efficiency gains
• Possess current and extensive discovery expertise. Skilled at framing problems, mapping workflows, quantifying impact, and validating solutions rapidly with stakeholders; comfortable balancing speed and rigor.
• Ability to work effectively across matrixed organizations and engage productively with different levels of seniority

Responsibilities

• Partnering with internal teams to deeply understand workflows, bottlenecks, and operational pain points, then translate them into validated product opportunities with clear ROI potential
• Creating and managing a prioritized roadmap of high-impact productivity use cases, balancing implementation speed, technical feasibility, organizational risk, and scalability across functions
• Defining success metrics and reporting for each solution, including adoption rates, time savings, quality improvements, and employee satisfaction, using data to drive rapid iteration
• Leading end-to-end product delivery in a fast-moving agile environment, partnering daily with engineers and operational stakeholders
• Helping to define productivity-first product development by applying modern discovery methods, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based decision making
• Scaling impact beyond your squad by documenting patterns, reusable components, and learnings, partnering with enterprise teams to make solutions discoverable and adoptable organization-wide

What This Job Offers

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