Principal Product Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish and uphold the vision, value proposition, and roadmap for the designated product area.

• Set goals focused on outcomes and plan both leading and lagging indicators.

• Balance user needs, go-to-market requirements, and platform considerations.

• Contribute to discussions regarding platform-level strategy and the overall roadmap.

• Gain direct insights into users through engagement and ongoing discovery.

• Conduct customer interviews, usability tests, behavioral analyses, and rapid prototyping.

• Develop empathy towards learners, educators, and administrators.

• Act as the subject matter expert in the competitive landscape for the assigned assessment experience.

• Lead build/buy/partner evaluations for Pearson Higher Education.

• Collaborate with engineering and design teams on framing problems and designing solutions.

• Foster team development as a player-coach, sharing expertise and mentoring colleagues.

• Produce product documentation including PRDs, specifications, capability definitions, and user stories.

• Oversee scope and sequencing across strategic, immediate, and operational objectives.

• Collaborate with engineering on architecture, API design, and technical trade-offs.

• Identify and assess AI capabilities such as generative AI, prompt engineering, ML-assisted workflows, and intelligent content tools.

• Become proficient in classroom AI applications and their implications for Pearson Higher Education assessments.

• Cultivate relationships with engineering, design, data, content, and go-to-market partners.

• Convey strategy, progress, trade-offs, risks, and decisions to senior stakeholders.

• Articulate a clear product narrative that encompasses the problem, users, rationale, and desired outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in product management.

• Proven track record of owning a product or area from discovery to measurable outcomes.

• Strong discovery capabilities and the ability to convert insights into product decisions.

• Experience with B2B2C products catering to multiple user types.

• Ideally, experience with both user-facing applications and developer-facing services.

• Technical proficiency in architecture and API discussions.

• Capability to make informed technical trade-offs.

• Data fluency, encompassing the definition of metrics, measurement planning, instrumentation, and the use of both quantitative and qualitative insights.

• Hands-on experience with modern AI tools in product development.

• Sound judgment on when AI is suitable and when it is not.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Experience in producing opportunity assessments, user stories, and strategic framing.

• Stakeholder management experience within complex organizations.

• Ability to influence without direct authority and establish trust across functions.

• Bonus: Background in educational technology.

• Bonus: Experience in AI/ML product development in areas such as classification, recommendation, NLP, or computer vision.

• Bonus: Experience in modernizing software while retaining the existing user base.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

• Benefits offered by Pearson (details referenced via a benefits link, but not provided in the posting).