Lead Specialist, Product Management
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Lead Specialist, Product Management
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The Lead Specialist, Product Management is responsible for owning and scaling our product adoption and fulfillment ecosystem, enabling instructor adoption and student access through accurate product metadata, offers, and entitlements. You will focus on how a variety of personas accessing Pearson products, and how to best integrate our experience across the Higher Education Institutional ecosystem. You will drive innovative ideas, solutions, processes, and products with decisive action. You will work collaboratively with other product management teams across Pearson to ensure integrated use cases are considered and supported, and you will work directly with development teams who build features specifically geared toward improving the integration and access journey of our customers. You will become an expert in the Pearson systems and tools that enable customers to adopt, integrate, purchase, and access materials seamlessly.
The ideal candidate is a self-starter who is detail-oriented and able to manage complex projects. The candidate must be a team player and strong communicator who can build relationships with stakeholders on various teams and levels across the organization.
Job Responsibilities:
Serve as technical product manager for new integration feature development, creating requirements, managing backlog, prioritizing development, and engaging directly with engineering team
Collaborate with UX, CX, product managers, and other cross-functional teams across Pearson to ensure use cases are understood and requirements are implemented according to user needs
Lead and support continual process improvement by proposing and solutioning optimizations for access and integration workflows and user experiences
Work with Director of Product Management to define product roadmap and growth opportunities
Lead creation of product-related documentation and go-to-market activities
Analyze usage data and customer feedback to inform roadmap and prioritization of requirements
Thinking from a data-first mentality, incorporating data wherever possible for informed decision-making and development
Develop rapport and trust with key stakeholders across Pearson business units
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field and/or a minimum 5+ years' experience in product management
Demonstrated prior experience leading cross-functional projects and building cross-platform solutions
Experience building and managing APIs, technical integrations, or platforms
Ability to work closely with engineering teams to design scalable solutions
Familiarity with cloud-based data platforms (Tableau, Snowflake
and Google BigQuery)
Experience with Agile development methodologies and prioritizing backlogs for development teams; experience with Jira and Confluence is a plus
Detail-oriented, with ability to prioritize roadmaps and workload
Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills, for both technical and non-technical topics
Project management, leadership, and cross-group collaboration skills
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong listener, with ability to interview customers and stakeholders to understand what problems we need to solve for and translate those into product requirements
Strong team-player attitude, with ability to work well independently
Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Outlook, Excel, MS Project, and PowerPoint
Demonstrated ability and desire to successfully work on a virtual team
Applications will be accepted through June 4. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The full-time salary range for this role is between $100,000 - $150,000
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here
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