Advanced Specialist, Product Management

Advanced Specialist, Product Management

Descriptor:  This role aligns to industry level titles such as Senior Product Manager.

Job Description 

ABOUT PEARSON 

At Pearson, we believe the capacity for growth lies in all of us—the potential to learn, to stretch, to constantly better ourselves. We create innovative and accessible assessment products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled expert individual contributor Product Manager to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge assessment products.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As an Advanced Specialist in Product Management, you will own and shape product direction for assigned product areas within Pearson Professional Assessments, with particular focus on exam authoring, item banking, test assembly, and publishing capabilities.

You will define and execute product strategy by translating customer, stakeholder, market, regulatory, and business needs into a clear product vision, roadmap priorities, and actionable backlog decisions for agile delivery teams. You will lead product discovery across author, reviewer, approver, psychometrician, and exam-builder workflows, balancing customer value, business outcomes, operational realities, technical feasibility, compliance expectations, and product viability to drive enhancements and new capabilities. You will also identify and shape innovative opportunities, including the responsible use of generative AI and other emerging technologies, to improve authoring efficiency, support new assessment approaches, and streamline workflows while maintaining human review, governance, security, assessment integrity, and the quality and defensibility required in high-stakes assessment.

The Advanced Specialist in Product Management must contribute to their product team a solid knowledge of the various constraints of the business such as from marketing, sales, support, finance, legal and privacy.  The product manager must also contribute a deep knowledge of our users and customers, and data about how our customers engage with our products. Finally, the product manager is expected to track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to their product.

This job, as with the other roles on the product team, is an individual contributor role.  You will need to be able to influence your teammates, as well as colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives, through your use of data and logic with strong communication skills translating complex concepts in easy-to-understand ways.

ABOUT YOU

You are a curious, evidence-led product manager who enjoys getting close to users and creating clear problem framings – using your product sense to identify the right problems to solve. You experiment with current AI tools in your work and understand that partnership with engineering and your credibility with technology are key to your success in shipping great products. You break problems down with strong analytical instincts, you care about helping people better themselves, and you are at your best when learning fast inside a team that is building something that matters.

While each member of the product team may be accountable for a specific risk, we look for product managers that understand that consistent innovation is the result of each member of the product team contributing their passion and their ideas.  The product manager must collaborate closely with their product designer and engineers to discover effective solutions and then work together to deliver those solutions to market.

While we empower our product teams to figure out the best solutions to the problems that need to be solved, we also hold those teams accountable for the results.  Shipping is necessary, but not sufficient.  We look for product managers that are not afraid of signing up for results, even when this means they have to work through others to achieve the necessary results.

 

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON 

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