Remote Lead, AI Control Plane Program Manager

Pearson; Indiana; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Program Manager, AI Control Plane to join the OCTO AI C4E team. You will lead the cross‑organisational governance of the AI Control Plane and own the internal enterprise AI telemetry dashboard, partnering with engineering, security, and business leaders to turn investment into measurable outcomes.

This role blends technical programme management with product leadership for an internal data product, providing visibility across OCTO and the AI Centre for Enablement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of programme or project management in technology.
• Product management or product-owner experience for technical or data products—someone who has shipped a v1 of something internal, not just managed a backlog.
• Vendor coordination experience with major enterprise technology partners (e.g. hyperscalers, large system integrators).
• Working understanding of AI, data engineering, or cloud architecture at a level sufficient to translate technical constraints into delivery plans and product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Translate AICP strategy into executable plans—workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies—across Pearson business units and corporate functions including engineering, security, and legal.
• Run programme cadence and reporting: status, risks, decision logs, steering committees, working groups. Coordinate external delivery partners against contractual commitments and commercial terms.
• Drive business-unit adoption of the governance and security capabilities AICP delivers—discovery, risk tiering, monitoring—against ambitious year-end onboarding targets.
• Act as product owner for the enterprise AI telemetry dashboard: define personas and the questions they need answered, prioritise the backlog, and ship v1 covering an initial set of enterprise tools. Build prototypes and design mocks where it helps the engineering team move faster.

Skills

Programme management

Product management

Vendor coordination

AI fluency

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Program Manager, AI Control Plane to join the OCTO AI C4E team. You will lead the cross‑organisational governance of the AI Control Plane and own the internal enterprise AI telemetry dashboard, partnering with engineering, security, and business leaders to turn investment into measurable outcomes.

This role blends technical programme management with product leadership for an internal data product, providing visibility across OCTO and the AI Centre for Enablement.