Senior Director, Product Management

John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Wiley is seeking a Product Management Lead to own the Enterprise Data Platform domain, shaping its roadmap, priorities, adoption, and business outcomes. You will partner with business leaders and Technology teams to simplify Wiley's data landscape, enabling trusted decision-making, data reuse, and operational efficiency.

This high-impact role requires translating strategic objectives into practical data capabilities, guiding a domain team, and delivering measurable value across the organization.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise products or platforms with roadmaps and adoption accountability.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms and decision-support capabilities.
• Experience with CDPs, MDM, BI, analytics platforms, or semantic layers.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, governance, and commercial functions.
• Strong technical understanding enabling credible collaboration with engineering teams and informed decision-making on practical, scalable solutions.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing teams while maintaining clear priorities, accountability, and effective stakeholder partnerships.
• Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills, balancing business value, risk, reuse, and capacity.

Responsibilities

• Lead Enterprise Data Platform domain team, setting clear priorities and creating effective ways of working across business and technology.
• Translate strategic objectives and operational needs into clear data and technology requirements.
• Own and evolve the Enterprise Data Platform roadmap, balancing strategic priorities with platform health, risk, capacity, and long-term business value.
• Lead prioritisation across the domain, making informed trade-offs about capabilities to build, improve, reuse, modernise, defer, or retire.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, governance, and delivery teams to shape practical and scalable solutions.
• Drive adoption of data products and platform capabilities, ensuring measurable value from trusted, governed data.
• Promote consistent data definitions, identity services, access models, and reusable reporting and decision-support capabilities across the organisation.
• Build effective partnerships across business and technology teams to support Wiley's evolving data needs.

Skills

Enterprise data platforms

Stakeholder management

Data governance

Leadership

Data modeling

Product management

Architecture collaboration

Tools

CDPs

MDM

BI tools

Analytics platforms

Semantic layer

Job description

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what's possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what's next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

About the Role:

Wiley is establishing Enterprise Systems Product Management to manage enterprise technology as product-led domains, aligning technology investments with business capabilities and measurable outcomes.

Reporting to the Vice President, Enterprise Systems Product Management, the Product Management Lead will own the Enterprise Data Platform domain, including its roadmap, priorities, adoption, and business outcomes. The role will partner closely with business capability owners and Technology teams to simplify Wiley's data landscape and create a unified, governed platform that enables trusted decision-making, greater data reuse, and improved operational efficiency.

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for an experienced product leader who can navigate complexity, influence senior stakeholders, and translate business needs into practical, scalable data capabilities.

How Will You Make an Impact?

• Lead and develop the Enterprise Data Platform domain team, setting clear priorities, strengthening product management capabilities, and creating effective ways of working across business and technology teams.
• Partner with business and functional leaders to translate strategic objectives and operational needs into clear data and technology requirements.
• Own and evolve the Enterprise Data Platform roadmap, balancing strategic priorities with platform health, risk, capacity, and long-term business value.
• Lead transparent prioritisation across the domain, making informed trade-offs about which capabilities to build, improve, reuse, modernise, defer, or retire.
• Collaborate with engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure, governance, and delivery teams to shape practical and scalable solutions.
• Drive the adoption of data products and platform capabilities, ensuring the business realises measurable value from trusted, governed, and reusable data.
• Promote consistent data definitions, identity services, access models, and reusable reporting and decision-support capabilities across the organisation.
• Build effective partnerships across business and technology teams, ensuring the Enterprise Data Platform continues to support Wiley's evolving needs.

What We Are Looking For

• Proven experience leading enterprise products, platforms, or technology domains, with accountability for roadmaps, prioritisation, adoption, and business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data platforms and data ecosystems that support commercial and operational decision-making.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms, Customer Data Platforms (CDPs), Master Data Management (MDM), data products, Business Intelligence (BI), analytics platforms, or semantic layer solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to influence and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, governance, and commercial functions.
• Strong technical understanding, enabling credible collaboration with engineering teams and informed decision-making on practical, scalable solutions.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing teams while maintaining clear priorities, accountability, and effective stakeholder partnerships.
• Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills, with the ability to assess competing demands against business value, risk, reuse, and capacity.
• Clear and confident communication skills, with the ability to engage both business and technology audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Experience establishing or maturing product management practices within an enterprise technology environment.
• Demonstrated success consolidating complex and fragmented stakeholder demand into a clear, unified product roadmap.
• A track record of improving data trust, technology adoption, delivery effectiveness, and measurable business outcomes.
• Familiarity with identity management, data governance, reusable data products, shared definitions, and enterprise access models from a product ownership perspective.

We power infinite possibilities.

For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing-creating impact that reaches everywhere.

We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives.

Here, your talent matters. Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact [e-mail] for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles in the United Kingdom, Canada, USA, Austria, Czechia, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, or Spain. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non-discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

Salary Range: 106,500.00 GBP to 156,100.00 GBP