Lead Specialist, Product Management

Pearson; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Health, dental, vision insurance

Generous paid time off

Professional development & continuing-

Collaborative and innovative work

Job summary

Pearson Direct-to-Consumer is seeking a Lead Specialist, Product Manager for AI Learning Experiences to shape and govern AI-powered learning products. You will partner with engineering, design, data science, content, and learning science teams to translate needs into clear requirements and deliver high-impact features.

You will use generative AI tools to accelerate discovery, prototype concepts, and communicate with stakeholders, while ensuring alignment with Pearson standards for privacy,

Qualifications

• Experience leading digital or SaaS products from discovery to launch and optimization.
• Hands-on use of generative AI for research, prototyping, or workflow automation.
• Understanding of LLM-based products, prompts, retrieval-augmented generation and evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Support the roadmap and success metrics for AI-powered learning experiences.
• Identify opportunities to improve outcomes, engagement, and personalization via AI.
• Contribute to end-to-end delivery of AI-enabled features from discovery to launch.
• Translate needs into product requirements, user stories, and prioritized work.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, data science, content, QA, and AI teams.
• Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, prototyping, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Define AI-powered learning experiences with prompts, workflows, and quality standards.
• Monitor product performance and drive continuous improvement with analytics and feedback.
• Ensure features meet Pearson privacy, security, accessibility, academic integrity, and responsible AI standards.

Skills

Product management

AI tools usage

LLM basics

Data analysis

Communication

Job description

Lead Specialist, Product Manager, AI Learning ExperiencesDescription: This role aligns to industry level titles such as Principal Product Manager or Principal AI Product Manager.Location: United States — RemoteBusiness Unit: Pearson Direct-to-ConsumerAbout PearsonPearson is the world's leading learning company. We help learners build the knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to progress in school, work, and life. As learning becomes more personalized, adaptive, and AI-enabled, Pearson is investing in products that combine trusted educational content, learning science, and modern AI to create more effective study experiences for students.

What You’ll Do

• Support the roadmap and success metrics for AI-powered learning experiences within Pearson's digital learning ecosystem.
• Identify opportunities where AI can improve student outcomes, engagement, personalization, and product quality through user research, data analysis, and experimentation.
• Contribute to the end-to-end delivery of AI-enabled features, from discovery and definition through launch and ongoing optimization.
• Translate learner, business, and technical needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritized work.
• Partner with engineering, design, data science, learning science, content, QA, and AI platform teams to deliver effective AI-powered experiences.
• Use AI tools to accelerate product discovery, research synthesis, prototyping, documentation, and stakeholder communication.
• Help define and evaluate AI-powered learning experiences, including prompt design, workflow behavior, quality standards, and student trust considerations.
• Monitor product performance using analytics, user feedback, and experimentation results to drive continuous improvement.
• Ensure AI features align with Pearson standards for privacy, security, accessibility, academic integrity, and responsible AI.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of product management experience for digital, software, SaaS, consumer, education, or platform products.
• Demonstrated experience shipping products or features from discovery through launch and post-launch optimization.
• Hands-on experience using generative AI tools in product work, such as research synthesis, prototyping, analysis, requirements, experimentation, or workflow automation.
• Practical understanding of LLM-based products, including prompts, model behavior, retrieval-augmented generation, evaluation, hallucination risk, and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Strong product judgment with the ability to balance user value, business value, feasibility, usability, safety, and operational constraints.
• Strong analytical skills and experience using product data, experiments, user research, and qualitative feedback to make decisions.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate between technical and non-technical audiences.
• Ability to work effectively with engineering, design, data, QA, content, learning science, legal, privacy, and business stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or managing AI-powered, ML-powered, adaptive, personalized, or data-driven products.
• Experience in EdTech, assessment, tutoring, learning platforms, content platforms, or other trust-sensitive domains.
• Familiarity with AI evaluation methods, model monitoring, prompt testing, red teaming, test-set creation, or rubric-based review.
• Familiarity with agentic workflows, tool use, vector databases, embeddings, RAG systems, LLM orchestration, or model cost/latency trade-offs.
• Experience with A/B testing, funnel analysis, retention analysis, learning outcome measurement, or product analytics platforms.
• Comfort creating lightweight prototypes using AI-assisted tools, no-code tools, notebooks, or design prototypes to reduce product ambiguity.
• Working knowledge of agile product development practices.

What You’ll Love About This Role

• Impact: Shape AI learning experiences used by millions of students globally.
• Innovation: Work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Growth: Build highly sought after AI product skills in a supportive, collaborative environment.
• Purpose: Contribute to Pearson's mission of improving learning outcomes worldwide.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.
• Generous paid time off and holidays.
• Professional development opportunities and continuing education support.
• A collaborative and innovative work environment.

If you're excited about shaping the future of learning with AI, we'd love to hear from you.

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:The minimum full-time salary range is between $140,000 - $170,000.This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.

Applications will be accepted through 26th October. This window may be extended depending on business needs.