Product Program Lead — Cross-Functional Delivery

Pearson; Pierre (SD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Higher Education is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead end-to-end programs across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market. You will own roadmaps, schedules, and dependencies, partnering with distributed teams to meet quarterly OKRs and on-time delivery.

The role emphasizes governance, planning cadences, and strong communication to enable fast, evidence-based decisions across a global org. Compensation reflects market ranges for senior program leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program or technical program management experience in a technology, product, or software organization, including 5+ years leading complex, multi-team programs from planning through launch.
• Technical understanding and strong engineering collaboration. You know how software is planned, built, and released well enough to work with engineering leads on scope, sequencing, and risk, and engineers see you as part of the team.
• Experience owning program roadmaps, delivery schedules, and cross-team dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams, including distributed teams in different time zones.
• A record of working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and building a plan where none existed.
• Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority, manage escalations, and hold a recommendation under pressure.
• Comfort using delivery data to define success criteria, run status, and drive decisions.
• Strong written communication and facilitation. Your pre-reads and updates get read, and your meetings end in decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end program plan across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market, and the OKRs it delivers each quarter.
• Own prioritization tradeoffs with Product and Engineering leads.
• Drive delivery schedules and launch readiness across multiple teams, including globally-distributed teams, and anticipate bottlenecks before they reach the critical path.
• Surface dependency risk early, before it blocks another team, and escalat[e] with a recommendation attached.
• Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Product, UX, Content, Finance, and go-to-market partners across US and international teams.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Engineering collaboration

Delivery tracking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jira Product Discovery

Job description

Pearson Higher Education is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead end-to-end programs across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market. You will own roadmaps, schedules, and dependencies, partnering with distributed teams to meet quarterly OKRs and on-time delivery.

The role emphasizes governance, planning cadences, and strong communication to enable fast, evidence-based decisions across a global org. Compensation reflects market ranges for senior program leadership.