Lead, Product Management

Pearson creates innovative and accessible educational products and services that support personal and professional growth through learning. The Lead, Product Management role leads the Certiport product portfolio, drives product strategy and discovery, coaches Product Managers, and delivers certification, assessment, and workforce readiness outcomes for learners, educators, employers, and industry partners.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define and evolve product vision, strategy, and priorities
• Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps
• Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment
• Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities
• Champion customer-centric decision making throughout the organization
• Establish strong product discovery practices across teams
• Ensure teams continuously validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights
• Promote evidence-based decision making over opinion-based prioritization
• Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and rapid iteration
• Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems
• Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers
• Create clear expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent
• Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews
• Recruit and retain exceptional product management talent
• Coaches Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers
• Creates empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions
• Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Program to ensure product teams maintain strong product-engineering-design collaboration
• Facilitate alignment across stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success leaders) while protecting team focus and autonomy
• Influence executive and cross-functional decisions through strong communication and product judgment
• Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to drive strategic outcomes
• Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes effectively across executive, business, and technical audiences, building alignment and advocacy for strong product management practices
• Ensure teams are focused on delivering measurable outcomes rather than feature output
• Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics
• Remove organizational obstacles that limit team effectiveness
• Establish operating mechanisms that improve speed, quality, and learning
• Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy

Requirements:

• 8+ years product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams
• 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent
• Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results
• Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning
• Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment
• Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments
• Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation
• Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products
• Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development
• Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges
• Professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs
• Education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products
• K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets
• Developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors
• Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends