Principal, Product Management

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.

About the Role

Pearson is standardizing how content gets planned, built, and measured. The Content Excellence work effort exists to give every business unit a common spine to build on: shared quality and data standards, one enterprise fact base, a single creation platform and repository per market segment, a defined content job family, and a practical foundation for AI in content workflows.

We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, and we are extending it into how content gets made. Strong content comes from strong content teams, and those teams are only as strong as the product managers guiding them.

We are looking for a senior product manager and/or strategist who can do this work hands-on at Pearson’s hardest edges, while influencing the senior content PMs and leaders responsible for those areas. This is a role for someone who will sit alongside the content BU teams, model a taxonomy with them, rebuild a broken production workflow alongside the team that runs it, and leave those teams stronger than they found them.

Who you are

You are a customer-obsessed, curious, hands-on product manager who is good at working at multiple levels and x-discipline. You know content craft better than most, and you are married to the principles over the process. You are comfortable in the machinery: taxonomies, metadata schemas, authoring and production platforms, editorial workflow, and the measures that tell you whether quality is actually improving.

You experiment with current AI tools, you have shipped with them in the last year, and you have a sharp view on where they add value in content work and where they do not. You break problems down, you teach by working alongside people, and you care about education enough to lift the bar across the business.

What you’ll work on

Embedded content build and standards

• Implement the standards spine inside real business unit work rather than in the abstract: global quality data standards, the V1 taxonomy, and metadata accuracy held to the 95 percent target.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows with the people who run them, removing handoffs and rework rather than adding process.
• Partner with content leaders xPearson through content strategy, planning, and craft, including those who push back hard, earning that standing by doing the work alongside them.
• Guide teams to high-quality plans and content strategy that trace to learner jobs and business outcomes, and to the right artifacts at the right level of fidelity, from MRDs to PRDs and specs.
• Design and deliver training anchored in Pearson’s real content problems rather than generic curricula.
• Contribute to the content job family and career architecture, and help the community of practice become something people show up to because it is useful.
• Build AI fluency across the content talent base in a practical, applied way.
• Identify the manual content tasks worth automating, build or prototype the automation, and prove the value before it scales.
• Bring evaluation, telemetry, and human-in-the-loop design to AI-assisted content generation and quality assurance, so that quality claims can be substantiated.
• Keep a clear, current point of view on where AI helps content work and where it does not.
• Role model how content works with product, engineering, design, and editorial.

What we’re looking for

• Seven or more years of product management experience, with that experience concentrated in content, publishing, or content platform domains, and with demonstrable technical depth.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards…