Lead Product Manager, AI Platform & Strategy

Pearson; Tallahassee (FL); On-site; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson in the United States is seeking a Lead Specialist Product Manager to drive new AI product capabilities across multiple teams. You will define strategy, outcomes, and roadmaps for shared capabilities that enable scalability and innovation in a complex product ecosystem.

This is an individual contributor role requiring strong communication, data-driven decision making, and the ability to influence without direct authority; you will work with product design, engineering, sales, and legal to

Qualifications

• Proven track record as an individual contributor product manager leading execution of critical, technically complex initiatives from strategy through release with measurable business outcomes.
• Demonstrated systems-thinking and architectural fluency with shared capabilities or frameworks in collaboration with architects, engineers, and functional leads.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity, make informed tradeoffs, and address risks when appropriate.
• Proven success driving cross-functional alignment and marshaling resources across teams to deliver coherent outcomes.
• Highly analytical and data-informed, translating insights into product direction and prioritization.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems with many constraints, grounded in data and sound judgment.
• Experience with modern enterprise AI and cloud architectures, including API-driven systems and integration patterns like REST APIs and event-driven models.
• Has built API-based services for internal and external customers; API commercialization a plus.
• Exceptional communication skills, translating complex concepts into clear language for diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to translate customer and business needs into documented business requirements and functional solutions.
• Consistency in delivering features aligned with requirements with fewer post-release corrections

Skills

Product management

Systems thinking

Ambiguity management

Cross-functional leadership

Data-informed decisions

Technical storytelling

APIs & integration

Stakeholder communication

Prioritization

Tools

REST APIs

Event-driven

Cloud architectures

Job description

Pearson in the United States is seeking a Lead Specialist Product Manager to drive new AI product capabilities across multiple teams. You will define strategy, outcomes, and roadmaps for shared capabilities that enable scalability and innovation in a complex product ecosystem.

This is an individual contributor role requiring strong communication, data-driven decision making, and the ability to influence without direct authority; you will work with product design, engineering, sales, and legal to