Lead Specialist, Product Management

Pearson is committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. They are seeking a Lead Specialist Product Manager to drive the development of AI product capabilities across multiple product teams, focusing on defining product strategy and outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Define product strategy, outcomes, and roadmaps for shared capabilities that enable scalability, performance, and innovation across a complex product ecosystem
• Collaborate closely with product designer and engineers to discover effective solutions and work together to deliver those solutions to market
• Track industry trends and the competitive landscape as they pertain to the product
• Contribute to the product team a solid knowledge of various business constraints such as marketing, sales, support, finance, legal, and privacy
• Influence teammates, colleagues, stakeholders, and key executives through data and logic with strong communication skills
• Translate customer insights, usage data, and performance signals into clear product direction and prioritization

Requirements:

• Proven track record as an individual contributor product manager leading the execution of critical, technically complex product initiatives from strategy through release with measurable business outcomes
• Demonstrated systems-thinking and architectural fluency, with experience shaping shared product capabilities or frameworks in close partnership with architects, engineers, and functional leads
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make informed tradeoffs, and escalate critical risks when appropriate
• Demonstrated success driving cross-functional alignment, marshaling resources across teams to overcome obstacles, optimize the delivery of coherent, impactful outcomes
• Highly analytical and data-informed, with experience translating customer insights, usage data, and performance signals into clear product direction and prioritization
• Proven ability to solve complex problems with many constraints, articulating recommendations through well-structured, written narratives grounded in data and sound judgment
• Experience working with modern enterprise, AI, and cloud-based architectures, including API-driven systems and integration patterns (e.g., REST APIs, event-driven or service-to-service models)
• Has built API-based services for both internal and external customers; successful API commercialization a plus
• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to condense complex technical concepts into clear, non-technical language and eliminate ambiguity for diverse stakeholder audiences
• Ability to translate customer and business needs into clearly documented business requirements translated into functional solutions
• Consistency in producing features that align with original requirements and a reduction in post-release corrections or escalations