Lead Specialist, Product Management

Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company, dedicated to helping individuals realize their potential through education. The Lead Specialist in Product Management will be responsible for enhancing product adoption and integration within the Higher Education ecosystem, collaborating with various teams to drive innovative solutions and improve user experiences.

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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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
• Experience with Jira and Confluence is a plus