Principal Product Lead - Content Platform (Remote)

Pearson; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to lead content standards and workflows. You will work hands-on with content teams to implement a unified spine, metadata schemas, and AI-assisted content generation focused on quality and measurable outcomes.

The role sits with Pearson’s Content Excellence program, collaborating across product, engineering, and editorial teams to raise standards and speed production while reducing handoffs and rework.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of product management experience in content, publishing, or content platform domains.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards work: taxonomy and metadata design, quality frameworks, structured content, and measurement.
• Experience with authoring, production, and delivery platforms (CMS, DAM, LCMS, XML-based content).
• Built and shipped substantive content systems as owning PM, including with AI tooling, in the last 12–18 months.
• Experience in empowered product team models with outcome-oriented planning and value-centric roadmaps.
• Strong continuous discovery skills and ability to translate findings into content outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Embed the standards spine into real business unit work with global quality data standards and metadata accuracy.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows in collaboration with the production teams.
• Partner with content leaders to align strategy and craft with governance and measurable outcomes.
• Guide teams to high-quality plans and content strategy tracing to learner jobs and business outcomes.
• Build AI fluency and identify content tasks suitable for automation and scale.

Skills

Content strategy

Product management

AI tooling

Taxonomies

Editorial workflow

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

CMS

DAM

LCMS

XML-based content systems

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to lead content standards and workflows. You will work hands-on with content teams to implement a unified spine, metadata schemas, and AI-assisted content generation focused on quality and measurable outcomes.

The role sits with Pearson’s Content Excellence program, collaborating across product, engineering, and editorial teams to raise standards and speed production while reducing handoffs and rework.