Manager Product Management

At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. We look to revolutionize the way the world learns and we can’t wait for you to help drive the future of online learning forward!

We are seeking a highly motivated Manager, Product Management to enable delivery of beautiful and effective digital learning experiences. You will report to the Director, Product Management and will join a team that is growing at a rapid pace. If you enjoy solving tough problems and are passionate about helping others, we would love to hear from you.

You will be executing solutions that will deliver digital learning experiences across multiple applications. The high-level responsibilities include:

• Identify, prioritize, and deliver product improvements to increase scale, usability, speed and margin

• Manage product dependencies within and across partner teams and the likely downstream impacts due to strategic and development decisions

• Be a goal-oriented leader, keeping sight of priorities, creating plans around strengths and delivering consistently

• Communicate roadmaps, priorities, experiments, and decisions clearly across a wide spectrum of audiences

• Create documentation, refine release notes, and coordinate messaging for high impact features and bugs

• Anticipate and resolve risks, obstacles, and timing issues

• Create epics and user stories to meet product goals

• Assist in the validation of completed user stories and features

Key collaboration/interfaces:

• Own relationships with partner product teams and colleagues in other areas of expertise, ensuring timely communication and collaboration

• Drive design with the lens to make the complex simple

• Work closely with onshore and offshore engineering, quality assurance, product and project management teams to scope efforts, define requirements, identify dependencies, and address roadblocks

Competencies:

• 4 years product management, or equivalent experience

• 1 years management experience

• Experience working with content creation, workflow enablement and/or digital publishing a must

• Demonstrated ability to be effective working with multi-functional project teams

• Experience with Jira

Equal Employment Opportunity

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.

The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $85,000 to $115,000. This position is bonus eligible. Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/

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Job: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Organization: Direct to Consumer

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Req ID: 2949