Engineering Team Manager — AI‑Driven Delivery (Remote)

Pearson; Northern (KY); Remote; USD 165,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Remote work capability

Employee benefits

Job summary

Pearson is hiring three Software Engineering Team Managers in the United States to lead engineering teams across Vue Testing Services, OnVue Exam Developer, and Test Delivery. You will blend people leadership with delivery oversight, technical judgment, and responsible AI adoption to lift team performance and customer outcomes.

These roles emphasize coaching, goal setting, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration, with minimal hands-on coding.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in a technical field.
• Experience leading technical professionals and building effective teams.
• Experience delivering software products, platforms or technology services in Agile environments.
• Evidence of driving delivery improvements through leadership and decision-making.
• Knowledge of modern software delivery, cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, security and observability.
• Experience making people, capacity, priority and delivery decisions in cross-functional settings.
• Experience working across distributed teams and time zones.
• Practical experience using or introducing AI-assisted engineering tools with sound risk judgment.
• Strong communication, collaboration and stakeholder-influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Hire, onboard, coach, develop and retain engineers and technical professionals.
• Set clear goals, feedback rhythms, development plans and team operating practices.
• Translate product and department priorities into achievable team plans, capacity choices and ownership.
• Track sprint and release progress, dependencies, blockers, defects, quality and delivery risks.
• Partner with Product, Architecture, Quality Engineering, DevOps, Security, Operations and business stakeholders.
• Maintain standards for design, testing, automation, security, observability and readiness.
• Use signals to identify patterns and drive team improvements.
• Guide AI-assisted development, testing, review and documentation while protecting quality and security.

Skills

Hands-on technical foundation

Leadership experience

Agile delivery

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud

DevOps

CI/CD

AI-assisted development

Strong communication

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or equivalent

Tools

CI/CD

AI tooling

Job description

Pearson is hiring three Software Engineering Team Managers in the United States to lead engineering teams across Vue Testing Services, OnVue Exam Developer, and Test Delivery. You will blend people leadership with delivery oversight, technical judgment, and responsible AI adoption to lift team performance and customer outcomes.

These roles emphasize coaching, goal setting, risk management, and cross-functional collaboration, with minimal hands-on coding.