Product Manager

Elsevier; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holidays

Private medical

Pension scheme

Life assurance

Share options

Season ticket loan

Parental leave

Learning & development

Employee discounts

Job summary

Elsevier is seeking a Product Manager for SSRN in London, owning one or more feature areas end to end and collaborating with researchers and scholarly communities to translate needs into product requirements. You will work with engineering, UX, analytics, operations and content teams to deliver user value.

You will lead discovery, prioritisation, and data‑driven decision making, including experimentation and go‑to‑market readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience gathering and prioritising customer requirements through structured discovery.
• Ability to write clear product requirements and manage them through delivery.
• Experience using analytics tools to inform decisions and test hypotheses.
• Experience supporting go-to-market activity and cross-functional communication.
• Familiarity with AI tools and their application to product delivery.
• Track record delivering features with measurable outcomes.
• Willingness to be in London Wall office at least 2 days a week.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and delivery for your feature area within SSRN's Preprint service
• Engage directly with researchers and scholarly communities to gather, prioritise, and validate their needs
• Formulate problem statements and test hypotheses through data and experimentation, including A/B testing
• Write clear product requirements, whether as user stories, PRDs, or specifications, and manage backlog prioritisation for your feature area
• Use data to identify and prioritise production issues and defects through to resolution
• Lead stakeholder demonstrations at programme milestones and support launch readiness, including GTM briefing materials
• Contribute to the feature‑area roadmap, aligned with outcomes agreed with the Senior Product Manager

Skills

Discovery

Requirements writing

Data analytics

A/B testing

Go-to-market

Cross-functional collab

AI tools familiarity

Tools

Adobe Analytics

Hotjar

Pendo

Job description

Could you help shape the future of scholarly communication by delivering product improvements that support researchers worldwide?

Are you excited by working with data, technology, and cross-functional teams to bring valuable product experiences to life?

Location: London Wall

About the Role

As a Product Manager for SSRN, Elsevier's preprint server, you will own one or more product features end to end, working alongside the Senior Product Manager to shape the feature roadmap. You will engage directly with researchers and scholarly communities to build a firsthand understanding of their needs, translate that understanding into product requirements, working with engineering, UX, analytics, operations, and content teams to deliver user value.

Responsibilities

• Lead discovery and delivery for your feature area within SSRN's Preprint service
• Engage directly with researchers and scholarly communities to gather, prioritise, and validate their needs
• Formulate problem statements and test hypotheses through data and experimentation, including A/B testing
• Write clear product requirements, whether as user stories, PRDs, or specifications, and manage backlog prioritisation for your feature area
• Use data to identify and prioritise production issues and defects through to resolution
• Lead stakeholder demonstrations at programme milestones and support launch readiness, including GTM briefing materials
• Contribute to the feature‑area roadmap, aligned with outcomes agreed with the Senior Product Manager

Requirements

• Direct experience gathering and prioritising customer requirements through structured discovery
• Ability to write clear requirements across formats and manage them through delivery
• Experience using data and analytics tools (Adobe Analytics, Hotjar, Pendo, or equivalent) to inform decisions and test hypotheses
• Experience supporting go‑to‑market activity and communicating with cross‑functional stakeholders
• Familiarity with AI tools and services and their application to process improvement and product delivery
• Track record of delivering features against measurable outcomes, working independently across multiple workstreams
• Minimum 2 days a week in the London Wall office

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. With an average length of service of 9 years, we are confident that we offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long‑term goals.

• Working in a hybrid way from both the office and at home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you work in the day

Working with us

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Regardless of the team you join, we promote a diverse environment with co‑workers who are passionate about what they do, and how they do it.

Working for you

• At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
• Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
• Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
• Life assurance
• Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
• Long service awards
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RE CARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
• Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
• Access to extensive learning and development resources
• Access to employee discounts via Perks at Work

About Us

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.