Senior Product Leader: Strategy, Discovery & Outcomes

Jobtailor; BLOOMINGTON (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the Certiport portfolio, shaping vision and strategy for learners, educators, and workforce partners involved in certification and assessment. You will mentor PMs and drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, data, and program teams.

You will champion customer-centric decision making, establish robust discovery practices, and deliver evidence-based roadmaps focused on measurable outcomes and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams.
• 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent.
• Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results.
• Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning.
• Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model.
• Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment.
• Preferred: Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments.
• Preferred: Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation.
• Preferred: Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products.
• Preferred: Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development.
• Preferred: Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges.
• Preferred: Experience in professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs.
• Preferred: Experience in education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products.
• Preferred: Experience in K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets.
• Preferred: Experience developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors.
• Preferred: Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business leaders to define product vision, strategy, and priorities.
• Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps.
• Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment.
• Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities.
• Champion customer-centric decision making and evidence-based decision making.
• Establish strong product discovery practices across teams.
• Ensure teams validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights.
• Promote evidence-based decision making and foster innovation, learning, and rapid iteration.
• Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems.
• Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers.
• Create expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent.
• Build accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews.
• Recruit and retain product management talent.
• Coach Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers.
• Create empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions.
• Partner with Engineering, Design, Data, and Program teams.
• Facilitate alignment across Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success.
• Influence executive and cross-functional decisions.
• Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes across executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Ensure teams deliver measurable outcomes rather than feature output.
• Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics.
• Remove organizational obstacles limiting team effectiveness.
• Establish operating mechanisms improving speed, quality, and learning.
• Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy.
• Lead product outcomes for Pearson's Certiport portfolio, serving learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions

Skills

Product Management

Leadership of Product Teams

Product Strategy

Customer-Centric Decision Making

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Job description

Pearson seeks a Senior Product Manager to lead the Certiport portfolio, shaping vision and strategy for learners, educators, and workforce partners involved in certification and assessment. You will mentor PMs and drive cross-functional collaboration across engineering, design, data, and program teams.

You will champion customer-centric decision making, establish robust discovery practices, and deliver evidence-based roadmaps focused on measurable outcomes and continuous learning.