Lead Specialist, Product Management

Job Title: Lead Specialist, Product Manager

Location: Hoboken, NJ 

About Pearson: At Pearson, we are committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. We create innovative and accessible educational products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled expert individual contributor Product Manager (E) to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge educational products.

About the Job: 

We embrace the SVPG Product Operating Model by empowering our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love yet work for our business.   Our product teams are cross-functional, durable, and generally comprised of a product manager, product design, tech lead and a program manager (4-in-a-box model).

We staff our product teams with the skills necessary to come up with effective solutions that are valuable (our customers choose to buy or use), viable (the solution works within the many constraints of the business), usable (the user can figure out how to use) and feasible (our engineers have the skills and technology to implement). 

While the product designer is accountable for ensuring the solution is usable, and the engineers are accountable for ensuring the solution is feasible, the product manager is accountable for ensuring the solution is both valuable and viable.  

This means that the product manager 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. 

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. 

In this role, the Lead Specialist Product Manager will focus on new AI product capabilities that are leveraged by multiple product teams across Pearso