Lead, Product Management

Lead, Product Management

Location:

US - Remote

Descriptor:
This role aligns to industry level titles such as Director of Product Management.

About Pearson At Pearson, we are committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. We create innovative and accessible educational products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Director to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge educational products.

About the Job We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Product companies depend on strong products, and strong products come from strong product teams. And we recognise that product teams are only as strong as their product managers.

Success in this role requires marrying strong product management practices with deep understanding of the certification and workforce readiness ecosystem, including how skills validation, credentials, and assessment solutions create value for learners, educators, employers, and industry partners.

We're seeking an innovative and experienced Lead, Product Manager, to lead a high-performing empowered product team responsible for delivering customer and business outcomes. This role is responsible for driving the customer product discovery and strategy of Pearson's Certiport portfolio, coach and develop product managers and continuously deliver to our learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions.

This role combines deep technical expertise with product management acumen, product delivery excellence, and a coaching mindset to accelerate business value.

The successful candidate is responsible for the value and viability risks and is overall accountable for the Certiport Product outcomes. Ideal candidate combines strong product sense and management leadership with a deep understanding of certification, credentialing, assessment, workforce development, and education markets to identify opportunities that drive learner outcomes, customer value, and business growth.

• 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.