Product Manager - Scholarly Tech & Research

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

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.