Senior Content Product Manager: Standards & AI

Pearson; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to guide content standards, taxonomy, and production workflows. You will work hands-on with content teams, modeling taxonomy, rebuilding workflows, and lifting team capabilities while collaborating with content leaders across Pearson.

You will influence senior PMs, design training, and build AI-fluent capabilities within the content talent base, delivering measurable quality improvements and aligned outcomes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in content/publishing domains.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards work: taxonomy and metadata design, quality frameworks.
• Experience with authoring, production, and delivery platforms (CMS, DAM, LCMS).
• Built and shipped substantive content systems work as owning PM, including with AI tooling.
• Experience in empowered product teams where outcomes matter more than deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Implement global quality data standards and the V1 taxonomy in real business units.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows, reducing handoffs and rework.
• Collaborate with Pearson content leaders on strategy, planning, and craft.
• Define plans and content strategy traced to learner jobs and business outcomes.
• Design and deliver training anchored in real content problems.

Skills

Content product management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Continuous discovery

Communication

Education

Advanced degree or equivalent demonstrated depth

Tools

CMS

DAM

LCMS

XML-based content systems

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to guide content standards, taxonomy, and production workflows. You will work hands-on with content teams, modeling taxonomy, rebuilding workflows, and lifting team capabilities while collaborating with content leaders across Pearson.

You will influence senior PMs, design training, and build AI-fluent capabilities within the content talent base, delivering measurable quality improvements and aligned outcomes.