Lead, Product Management

Jobtailor; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the Certiport portfolio, shaping vision and strategy for learners, educators, and workforce partners involved in certification and assessment. You will mentor PMs and drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, data, and program teams.

You will champion customer-centric decision making, establish robust discovery practices, and deliver evidence-based roadmaps focused on measurable outcomes and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams.
• 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent.
• Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results.
• Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning.
• Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment.
• Preferred: Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments.
• Preferred: Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation.
• Preferred: Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products.
• Preferred: Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development.
• Preferred: Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges.
• Preferred: Experience in professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs.
• Preferred: Experience in education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products.
• Preferred: Experience in K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets.
• Preferred: Experience developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors.
• Preferred: Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to define product vision, strategy, and priorities.
• Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps.
• Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment.
• Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities.
• Champion customer-centric decision making and evidence-based decision making.
• Establish strong product discovery practices across teams.
• Ensure teams validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights.
• Promote evidence-based decision making and foster innovation, learning, and rapid iteration.
• Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers.
• Create expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent.
• Build accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews.
• Recruit and retain product management talent.
• Coach Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers.
• Create empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, and Program teams.
• Facilitate alignment across Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success.
• Influence executive and cross-functional decisions.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes across executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Ensure teams deliver measurable outcomes rather than feature output.
• Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics.
• Remove organizational obstacles limiting team effectiveness.
• Establish operating mechanisms improving speed, quality, and learning.
• Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy.
• Lead product outcomes for Pearson's Certiport portfolio, serving learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions

Skills

Product Management

Leadership of Product Teams

Product Strategy

Customer-Centric Decision Making

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Job description

Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define and evolve product vision, strategy, and priorities
Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps
Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment
Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities
Champion customer-centric decision making
Establish strong product discovery practices across teams
Ensure teams validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights
Promote evidence-based decision making and foster innovation, learning, and rapid iteration
Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems
Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers
Create expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent
Build accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews
Recruit and retain product management talent
Coach Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers
Create empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions
Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, and Program teams
Facilitate alignment across Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success
Influence executive and cross-functional decisions
Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes across executive, business, and technical audiences
Ensure teams deliver measurable outcomes rather than feature output
Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics
Remove organizational obstacles limiting team effectiveness
Establish operating mechanisms improving speed, quality, and learning
Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy
Lead product outcomes for Pearson's Certiport portfolio, serving learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions

Requirements

• 8+ years of product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams
• 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent
• Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results
• Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning
• Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment
• Preferred: Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments
• Preferred: Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation
• Preferred: Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products
• Preferred: Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development
• Preferred: Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges
• Preferred: Experience in professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs
• Preferred: Experience in education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products
• Preferred: Experience in K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets
• Preferred: Experience developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors
• Preferred: Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in product management, leading teams to define and execute product strategies that align with organizational goals. Capable of fostering a customer-centric culture while driving measurable outcomes through collaboration and evidence-based decision making.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Management Experience
• Leadership of Product Teams
• Product Strategy Development
• Customer-Centric Decision Making
• Cross-Functional Collaboration

Hard Skills

• Product Strategy
• Outcome-Based Planning
• Product Discovery
• Experimentation
• Data Analysis
• Portfolio Management
• Performance Metrics
• Agile Methodologies
• SaaS Products
• Educational Product Development

Soft Skills

• Mentoring
• Coaching
• Influencing