GVP, Product Management

John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 219,000 - 329,000; Full time

Job summary

Wiley is seeking a Group Vice President, Product Management to lead and elevate the product management capability for the Research and Publishing Solutions business. This entrepreneurial executive will architect the product organization, define operating models, and set an AI-first strategy that differentiates Wiley in scholarly publishing and research services.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Research, the role will build a cohesive leadership team, drive

Job description

Job Description:

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what's possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what's next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

The Group Vice President, Product Management is a senior executive leader charged with building and elevating Wiley's product management capability for the Research and Publishing Solutions business. This is an entrepreneurial executive who will architect the product organization, establish the operating model, and set a bold, AI-first product strategy that drives differentiation in a rapidly evolving scholarly publishing and research services market. Consistent with Wiley's evolving operating model for AI and platform businesses, this leader will be a technically fluent product executive who champions AI-first thinking across the portfolio, embeds AI solutions and AI product management practices into how the team works, and partners closely with technology to shape how product and engineering collaborate in an AI-native software delivery environment, aligning team topology, delivery rhythm, and technical choices with product strategy and resourcing decisions. This leader will drive a use case-oriented, iterative approach to product development - anchoring roadmaps in concrete customer and business use cases and evolving solutions rapidly through short, evidence-based cycles rather than long, speculative build phases.

Reporting directly to the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Research, this leader will establish structure, rhythm, and rigor where new foundations are needed - and accelerate what is already working. With two VP-level direct reports, they will build a cohesive product leadership team and create the conditions for world-class product execution at scale.

This role is specifically scoped as a builder opportunity. The incoming leader will be expected to:

• Define the product management operating model: how teams are structured, how roadmaps are built and governed, how product decisions are made and communicated.
• Establish cross-functional partnership norms with technology, editorial, sales, marketing, and finance that did not previously exist or need to be reset.
• Drive Go-To-Market / Commercial enablement across Wiley's Research and Publishing Solutions.
• Partner with technology leadership to evolve the product-engineering operating model for an AI-era SDLC: how squads are scoped around bounded contexts, how team APIs are defined, and drive agent-assisted development change capacity planning and resource allocation.
• Introduce disciplined product frameworks - customer discovery, outcome-based roadmapping, portfolio investment logic - and create the cultural conditions for them to take root.
• Instill AI-first thinking as a default mode of product management: identify and prioritize AI solutions against concrete customer and business use cases, and drive use case-oriented, iterative development so the team ships and learns in short cycles rather than committing to long speculative builds.
• Develop the VP-level product leaders into a unified leadership team with shared standards, language, and accountability.
• Earn a seat at the executive table quickly by delivering early wins while building for long-term product capability and market differentiation.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Strategy & Vision

• Set the multi-year product strategy for Wiley's research and publishing solutions portfolio, grounded in AI-first thinking.
• Translate business objectives and market dynamics into a coherent product vision that guides investment decisions, roadmap prioritization, and team focus, and drive AI product management through a use case-oriented, iterative development approach that identifies high-value AI solutions and validates them quickly with customers.
• Clearly define product roadmaps with long-term vision developed and aligned with broader business and technology teams, with AI solutions prioritized against validated use cases and delivered through iterative, use case-oriented development cycles.

Portfolio Leadership

• Own the end-to-end product portfolio across research publishing, author solutions, and related platform offerings. Balance sustaining innovation with new growth opportunities and rationalize the portfolio in alignment with Wiley's strategic priorities and commercial targets.
• Drive Go-To-Market / Commercial enablement across Wiley's Research and Publishing Solutions.
• Drive enhancements and innovation to product portfolio enabling business performance.

Platform & API Strategy

• Shape Wiley's research publishing platform as programmable scholarly infrastructure: stable, versioned APIs that authors, societies, partner publishers, and third-party agent frameworks build on directly. Treat API and platform products as first-class commercial offerings, not back-of-house integration plumbing, and align the platform roadmap with the evolving agent-caller economy.
• Future-forward vision for sustainable evolution of platforms.

Organizational Build-Out

• Lead, structure, and grow a high-performing product management organization through two VP-level leaders. Establish capability standards, career frameworks, and a culture of customer obsession, disciplined execution, and continuous learning.
• Define integration strategy across the portfolio, covering external systems used by authors, institutions and societies.
• Build high-performing team of product managers.

Executive Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as a key member of the Research and Learning leadership team. Partner with technology, sales, marketing, editorial, and finance to align product investment with business outcomes, revenue targets, and customer value creation.
• Effective partnership development and alignment of strategy.

Market Intelligence & Competitive Positioning

• Maintain a deep, first-hand understanding of the scholarly publishing and research technology stack: research integrity and peer review workflows, manuscript triage and editorial systems, research data management, content syndication and rights, AI agent distribution protocols, and the standards landscape (NISO, STM, COUNTER). Use that fluency to sustain and extend Wiley's competitive differentiation in research and publishing technology, not only in content.
• Establish an insight and analytics system across researcher/author/reviewer/ institutional journeys.

Product Investment & Financial Stewardship

• Partner with finance and the EVP to develop and manage product investment plans, resource allocation, and ROI frameworks. Bring rigor to build-buy-partner decisions and ensure portfolio investments deliver measurable business impact.
• Effective utilization and procurement of resources to obtain strategic vision and enablement.

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We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.

Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [e-mail] for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

Salary Range: 218,900.00 USD to 328,566.66 USD#LI-JL1