Principal, Product Management

Pearson is committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to support innovation and acceleration initiatives across their product portfolio, focusing on AI-related features and driving the development of educational products.

Responsibilities:

• Run sprints with internal and external engineering teams, to drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation with a data driven, learning hungry mindset
• Build working product prototypes and features in collaboration with engineering teams
• Develop compelling business cases and integration roadmaps for AI initiatives
• Help teams solve complex technical challenges and drive modernisation efforts
• Coach teams on product management best practices, discovery methods, and ways of working
• Facilitate discovery sessions and help teams integrate discovery into their backlogs, helping teams manage parallel tracks of discovery and execution
• Guide teams in developing high-quality MRDs, PRDs, and refining work into shippable iterations
• Flex between hands-on execution and coaching to build team capabilities
• Embed into business units to support customer-centric roadmaps and strategic planning
• Role model interactions with engineering, design and other stakeholders
• Help enable the change to new ways of working and practices that make a difference
• Help teams refine work into reasonable chunks and maintain effective backlogs
• Support continuous process improvement and practice optimization
• Identify and implement practices to optimize product development cycles

Requirements:

• 5/6+ years of product management experience with demonstrable technical and/or AI/ML exposure
• Strong technical background or proven ability to work effectively with engineering teams
• Track record shipping technical products and building prototypes
• Experience with agile methodologies and running product sprints, with a strongly data driven mindset
• Understanding of implementation of AI/ML technologies and modern product development practices
• Excellent coaching and communication skills with ability to influence without authority
• Experience with generative AI, LLMs, or emerging AI technologies
• Background working with startups, innovation teams, or in fast-paced environments
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
• Experience in learning technologies or educational product development
• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving capabilities