Sr Product Manager I - Strategic Innovation

Elsevier is a renowned global information analytics company that primarily focuses on providing scientific, technical, and medical research content, tools, and services. They are seeking a Strategic thinking Senior Product Manager to lead discovery, prioritization, and delivery of internal productivity solutions within their Innovation Squad, aimed at improving operational efficiency and decision quality through AI-first solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Partnering with internal teams to deeply understand workflows, bottlenecks, and operational pain points, then translate them into validated product opportunities with clear ROI potential
• Creating and managing a prioritized roadmap of high-impact productivity use cases, balancing implementation speed, technical feasibility, organizational risk, and scalability across functions
• Defining success metrics and reporting for each solution, including adoption rates, time savings, quality improvements, and employee satisfaction, using data to drive rapid iteration
• Leading end-to-end product delivery in a fast-moving agile environment, partnering daily with engineers and operational stakeholders
• Helping to define productivity-first product development by applying modern discovery methods, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based decision making
• Scaling impact beyond your squad by documenting patterns, reusable components, and learnings, partnering with enterprise teams to make solutions discoverable and adoptable organization-wide

Requirements:

• Possess current and extensive product management experience delivering software solutions in an agile environment, preferably with internal or operational focus
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and modern automation concepts with ability to stay current on technical and product advances relevant to workplace productivity
• Experience building or managing AI-enabled workflow tools, process automation, and productivity systems, especially in enterprise environments
• Demonstrated ability to lead workflow discovery, define productivity problems clearly, and convert operational ambiguity into prioritized roadmaps and shipped solutions
• Extensive partnership skills with engineering teams and stakeholders, including comfort making pragmatic build/buy/partner tradeoffs
• Experience defining operational metrics and using workflow data to drive product decisions and iteration cycles
• Proven success delivering complex, cross-functional productivity initiatives that deliver measurable efficiency gains
• Possess current and extensive discovery expertise. Skilled at framing problems, mapping workflows, quantifying impact, and validating solutions rapidly with stakeholders; comfortable balancing speed and rigor
• Ability to work effectively across matrixed organizations and engage productively with different levels of seniority