Product Manager

Elsevier; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier Limited Company is seeking a Product Manager for its Identity and Access team in London. This role involves shaping a unified identity platform, leading cross-functional squads, and enhancing user experience. Candidates should possess strong product management skills, technical depth, and a passion for problem-solving in complex systems. Benefits include generous holidays, health screenings, and parental leave support.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Health screening and private medical benefits

Life assurance

Contributory pension scheme

Employee discounts via Perks at Work

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development resources

Qualifications

• 4-6 years of product management experience in a similar role.
• Recognized as the full owner of a product or features.
• Demonstrated thorough product development knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Interact with customers and generate requirements.
• Gather data to solve business problems.
• Support go-to-market strategy with clear communication to stakeholders.
• Enhance customer satisfaction and commercial impact.

Skills

Product Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

User Experience Improvement

Technical Knowledge (Computer Science/Engineering)

Education

Bachelors or Masters in Technical Subject

Job description

As a Product Manager in Elsevier’s Identity and Access team, you’ll play a central role in shaping the future of our unified identity platform—serving millions of users across a diverse portfolio of products. You’ll lead a cross-functional squad focused on delivering secure, seamless, and scalable identity solutions, while also supporting internal teams as they onboard to the platform. This role blends technical depth with strategic thinking—you’ll dive into authentication and access workflows, collaborate with engineers, UX designers, and stakeholders, and translate user needs into impactful product decisions. You’ll own roadmap priorities, drive delivery, and help define the long-term vision for identity at Elsevier. If you’re passionate about solving complex systems problems and improving user experience at scale, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact.

Responsibilities:

• Interacting frequently with customers, and generating customer requirements.
• Anticipating customer needs and prioritizing those for the organization.
• Actively gathering data from multiple sources (customer, market analysis, sales and revenue, etc.) to drive solutions to business problems and issues of consequence to the company.
• Supporting the go-to-market strategy with good communication of customer requirements and timelines to stakeholders.
• Solve customer issues with product features that achieve business goals and metrics.

Requirements:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in a technical subject (Computer Science or Engineering discipline) is preferred, but not essential.
• Min of 4-6 years of PM experience in a similar role.
• Recognized as full owner of a product or multiple features.
• Identified, led, and released changes or enhancements that improved customer satisfaction and/or commercial impact.
• Demonstration of thorough product development knowledge, including the ability to develop related business cases, content, and product plans.
• Successful participation in customer engagements.

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. 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 for you

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
• Save As You Earn share option scheme
• Travel Season ticket loan
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
• RECARES days, giving you time to support 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 scheme via Perks at Work