Senior Product Manager

Elsevier; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing initiatives

Shared parental leave

Study assistance

Sabbaticals

Job summary

Elsevier, a global leader in information and analytics, seeks a Senior Product Manager to define and deliver strategy for machine and AI access to ScienceDirect content.

You will collaborate with product, technology, legal, and commercial teams to shape access, governance, and monetization in an evolving AI ecosystem, aligning stakeholders and delivering scalable products.

Qualifications

• Proven digital product management competencies, operating at high standards and setting clear priorities for the roadmap.
• Ability to use data and experiments to drive decision making.
• Experience owning API or developer-facing products and shipping with engineering teams.
• Comfort translating between technical and commercial audiences and working with architects.
• Experience contributing to commercial models such as licensing, entitlement, packaging or pricing is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the strategy for machine and AI access to Elsevier’s content, and build stakeholder alignment.
• Translate strategy into a product roadmap and lead delivery with engineering from discovery to launch.
• Lead customer discovery and pilots to validate machine-to-machine use cases and business value.
• Shape entitlement models, access tiers, and metering for machine usage across products.
• Contribute to measuring and reporting value of machine usage for customers.

Job description

About our Team

Are you excited to shape how AI systems, autonomous agents, and machine-driven workflows access and create value from world-leading scientific content? Do you enjoy turning complex strategic questions into high-impact products that balance customer needs, technology, commercial opportunities, and governance considerations? ScienceDirect is Elsevier's flagship research discovery platform, home to more than 22 million publications across over 4,000 journals and 50,000 books. Researchers, clinicians, students and institutions around the world rely on it to find and use trusted, peer-reviewed science. We are a data-driven, mission-driven, customer-focused team who are passionate about building solutions that solve our users' problems. We are curious, collaborative, reliable partners who work in an open environment to explore new possibilities to bring more value to the market.

About the Role

A growing share of the demand for scientific content comes from software rather than people. As a Senior Product Manager, you will help define and deliver the strategy for machine and AI access to ScienceDirect content, identifying valuable use cases and translating them into scalable products and services. You will work across product, technology, legal, and commercial teams to shape how content is accessed, governed, measured, and monetized in an evolving AI ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in developing and maintaining the strategy for machine and AI access to Elsevier’s full content, recommending which use cases we should serve and which we should not, and building the evidence and stakeholder alignment behind those recommendations
• Translate the agreed strategy into a product roadmap and lead its delivery with engineering, from discovery through to launch, selecting the right delivery mechanism (APIs, agent connectors, etc) for each use case
• Lead customer discovery and controlled pilots to validate machine-to‑machine use cases and value exchange, turning what we learn into requirements and business cases
• Work with legal, commercial, product and technology colleagues to shape the entitlement model and access tiers for machine use, covering entitlement, identity, metering, versioning and the ability to revoke access
• Contribute to how machine usage and the value it creates are measured and reported, reflecting full text value for customers
• Keep a current view of the competitive and substitution landscape across open infrastructure, publisher gateways, aggregators and AI platforms, and bring that insight into product and strategy decisions

Requirements

• Proven digital product management competencies, operating at high standards, especially excelling at assessing difficult trade-offs and setting clear priorities for the product roadmap to deliver maximum value
• Ability to use data and experiments to drive decision making
• Experience owning API, data or developer-facing products, and a track record of shipping them successfully with engineering teams
• Comfortable working with architects and engineers on data formats, content structure and delivery mechanisms, and able to translate between technical and commercial audiences
• Experience contributing to commercial models such as licensing, entitlement, packaging or pricing is an advantage
• Familiarity with how AI applications consume content, for example retrieval‑augmented generation, agents, or text and data mining, is a plus
• Superb verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills and a demonstrated ability to collaborate with others to achieve productive results
• Proven ability to influence and align stakeholders across functions without direct authority
• A research or scientific background, or a strong understanding of the needs of scientists, researchers or students, is a plus

Work in a Way That Works for You

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. 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 Pattern Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.

About the Business

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. If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €79,000 - €131,500. This job may be subject to a collective labor agreement in the Netherlands. Please consult with the hiring team for further details. We know your well‑being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. USA Job Seekers: EEO Know Your Rights.

Elsevier and RELX

Elsevier is a global leader in advanced information and decision support for science and healthcare. We believe that by working together with the communities we serve, we can shape human progress to go further, happen faster, and benefit all. We support continuous discovery and uphold the highest standards of content integrity, reliability, and reproducibility so the communities we serve can advance their field of science, healthcare or innovation with confidence. By combining high-quality content with powerful analytics, we transform complexity into clarity and deliver mission‑critical insights that help professionals make better decisions when it matters most. We deliver insights that help research institutions, governments, and funders achieve their goals. We help researchers discover and share knowledge, collaborate, and accelerate innovation. We help librarians provide verified, quality information to universities. We help innovators turn knowledge into new products. We help health professionals improve patient care and educators train the next generation of doctors and nurses. Connecting quality content and innovative technologies, we make progress go further and happen faster. And by championing inclusion and sustainability, we ensure progress benefits all. With 9,500 employees, over 2,300 technologists in 5 major tech hubs, and more than 60 locations across the globe, we are committed to supporting the scientific and healthcare communities around the world. We offer a diverse range of opportunities across technology, commercial, business, and early career jobs. If you are looking for a career that inspires progress in science, innovation and health, and allows you to grow every day, find your team at Elsevier. Elsevier is part of RELX Group.