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Principal, Product Management

Pearson

United States, United StatesRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Aug 2026

💰 $180,000/yr($160,000/yr – $180,000/yr)

About the role

Principal, Product Management

Descriptor: This role aligns to indsiutryu level titles such as Princiapl Product Manager

Location: US, Remote

About the Role

We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard customer and business problems – in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Product companies depend on strong products, and strong products come from strong product teams. And we recognize that product teams are only as strong as their product managers.

We are hiring an experienced product manager to contribute to our core assessment team for Higher Education. You will be focused on evolving the objective assessment experience to respond to an AI-enabled world, while also maintaining our large, devoted, existing base.

Who you are

You are a curious, hands-on product manager who can own a meaningful slice of a platform end-to-end. You think in outcomes, connect them back to clear value propositions and the jobs your users are trying to get done, and you design measurement before you build. You experiment with current AI tools in your own work and have a sharp view of where AI adds value and where it does not. You break problems down, you are comfortable with engineers on technical trade-offs, and you care about education enough to fight for the right thing.

What you'll work on

Strategy, vision and outcomes

Define and maintain a clear vision, value proposition, and roadmap for your area, grounded in user insight, business priorities, and platform strategy.
Set outcome-driven goals (OKRs or equivalent) with leading and lagging indicators planned up front – measurement is part of the design, not an afterthought.
Make deliberate trade-offs between competing user needs, GTM needs, and platform-wide concerns.
Contribute to platform-level strategy, bringing your area into broader roadmap discussions and shaping coherent cross-area decisions.

Discovery and customer insight

Build first-hand understanding of your users – their jobs-to-be-done, pain points, and the contexts in which they work – through regular direct engagement.
Run continuous discovery using : customer interviews, usability testing, behavioural analysis, and rapid prototyping.
Develop empathy for indirect users too – the learners, educators, and administrators who experience the downstream products your platform powers.
Be the resident expert in the competitive space for your assigned assessment experience.
Lead build/buy/partner analysis to help Pearson HE decide where to invest development dollars and where to partner to fast-track solutions

Delivery, execution and leadership

Work with engineering and design as a single team, sharing problem framing and solution design rather than handing over requirements.
This is a legacy org in rapid transformation – we need PM’s that act as ‘player coaches’, contributing to building the team – sharing what you learn, mentoring peers, helping raise the bar.
Write clear product artefacts – PRDs, specs, capability definitions, user stories – at the right level for the team, so engineering can build without constant clarification.
Manage scope and sequencing thoughtfully, balancing strategic bets against near-term commitments and operational needs.

AI and technology

Engage credibly with engineering on architecture, API design, and technical trade-offs relevant to your area.
Identify and evaluate relevant AI capabilities in a pragmatic way – generative AI, prompt engineering, ML-assisted workflows, intelligent content tools – impact vs feasibility
Become the resident expert in how instructors and students are using AI in their classrooms, and how Pearson HE assessments should react.

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