Principal, Product Management

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company. This senior, expert-track role in UK Schools Qualifications leads thinking on AI-enabled products and responsible practice, without direct team management, leveraging influence and deep expertise to drive tangible delivery.

You will connect with schools, colleges and researchers to shape what good AI looks like in teaching, learning and assessment, and help the wider team move faster with evidence-based strategies and external partnerships.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in applying AI to learning or products, spanning pedagogy and product strategy.
• Track record of leading complex initiatives through influence rather than direct authority.
• Credibility to shape senior decisions with evidence and build trusted external networks.
• Exceptional systems thinking and ability to work across teams and disciplines.
• Experience in EdTech, assessment or regulated environments is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Turn AI product ambition into actions, options papers and evidence-led recommendations.
• Build links with schools, colleges and trusted partners to understand AI implementation in practice.
• Support or lead product and pedagogical delivery for priority initiatives across curriculum, teaching and assessment.
• Create reusable frameworks, playbooks and guidance for responsible, AI-enabled product development.
• Champion responsible AI with safeguarding, learner trust, accessibility and teacher workflows at heart.

Skills

AI in learning

Influence leadership

Pedagogy knowledge

EdTech experience

Evidence-based thinking

Job description

Principal, Product Management

Location: UK - Remote

Descriptor: This role aligns to Lead Principal Product Manager or Principal Product Manager

Shape how AI transforms learning for millions of students.

Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company. In UK Schools Qualifications we're building AI-enabled products that genuinely support teachers and learners, grounded in real pedagogy, evidence and responsible practice. We're now creating a new senior expert role to lead the thinking behind that work, and to make sure our AI ambitions land where it matters most: with our partners in schools and colleges.

About the role

This is a senior, expert-track role for someone who understands AI, pedagogy, curriculum and product. You won't manage a team, instead you'll lead through influence, credibility and deep expertise, turning ambition into action and connecting people while seeking out the latest evidence of tangible delivery.

You'll be a key person linking together our activity on what "good" looks like for AI in teaching, learning and assessment, and you'll help the wider team move faster and more confidently.

You'll extend our expert capacity rather than owning overall product direction, leaving you free to focus on the ideas, evidence and partnerships that create genuine impact.

What you'll do

• Turn AI product ambition into actions, options papers, and evidence-led recommendations.
• Build and strengthen links with schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts to understand how AI is really being implemented, and connect with academics, sector bodies, policy stakeholders and organisations shaping the space.
• Support or lead product and pedagogical delivery for priority initiatives, across curriculum/teaching and learning, assessment and digital.
• Create reusable frameworks, playbooks and guidance for responsible, AI-enabled product development that teams adopt.
• Champion responsible AI, drawing on the global Pearson approach to factors include safeguarding, learner trust, accessibility and teacher workflows at the heart of everything.

What we're looking for

• Demonstrable expertise in applying AI to learning and/or products, spanning pedagogy/teaching and learning, curriculum and/or product strategy.
• A track record of leading complex, ambiguous initiatives to delivery through influence rather than line authority.
• The credibility to shape senior decisions with evidence, and to build trusted external networks.
• Exceptional systems thinking and the ability to work horizontally across teams and disciplines.
• Ideally, experience in EdTech, assessment or regulated/evidence-based environments, and delivering initiatives with partners.

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [e-mail].

Job:

Product Management

Job Family:

PRODUCT

Organization:

Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule:

FULL_TIME

Workplace Type:

Hybrid

Req ID:

25677