Senior Product Manager, Content Platforms & AI

Pearson; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson seeks a senior product manager/strategist to lead core content standards and AI-enabled workflows across content teams. You will work with content BUs, model a taxonomy, and redesign production workflows to improve quality and efficiency.

You must have 7+ years in content-focused PM roles, hands-on ownership of content platforms (CMS/DAM/LCMS), and a proven track record shipping AI-enabled content solutions in the last 12–18 months.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in content, publishing, or content platform domains with technical depth.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards: taxonomy and metadata design, quality frameworks, structured content, and measurement.
• Experience with authoring, production, and delivery platforms (CMS, DAM, LCMS, XML-based systems), including at least one consolidation or migration you delivered.
• Built and shipped substantive content systems as the owning PM, including with current AI tooling within the last 12–18 months.
• Experience in empowered product team models (SVPG-style) focusing on outcomes over delivery lists, with value-centric planning like QBRs or roadmaps.
• Proven track record in continuous discovery (generative and evaluative) translating insights into content outcomes.
• Experience redesigning production workflows and proving productivity or quality gains.
• Experience coaching other PMs and leaders without alienating them.
• Strong written and verbal communication for both technical and senior business audiences.
• Background as a content architect, managing editor, or publishing operations lead with hands-on build experience.
• Experience designing and delivering PM training or coaching programs for content teams.
• Experience in education, assessment, or other content-intensive industries.
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and how to meet them at scale.
• Advanced degree or equivalent depth.
• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Embed content build and standards inside real business unit work with global quality data standards, the V1 taxonomy, and metadata accuracy to 95% target.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows with teams to reduce handoffs and rework.
• Partner with content leaders to align on content strategy, planning, and craft, including pushing back when needed.
• Guide teams to high-quality plans and content strategy tracing to learner jobs and outcomes, with artifacts at appropriate fidelity (MRDs to PRDs).
• Design and deliver training anchored in Pearson’s real content problems rather than generic curricula.
• Contribute to the content job family and career architecture and build a practical community of practice.
• Build AI fluency across the content talent base in a practical, applied way.
• Identify manual content tasks worth automating, prototype automation, and prove value before scaling.
• Bring evaluation, telemetry, and human-in-the-loop design to AI-assisted content generation and quality assurance.
• Maintain a clear view on where AI helps content work and where it does not.
• Role model collaboration with product, engineering, design, and editorial.

Skills

Product management

Content strategy

Taxonomy design

Metadata design

CMS / DAM

Editorial workflow

AI tooling

Stakeholder coaching

Strong communication

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

CMS

DAM

LCMS

XML-based systems

Job description

Pearson seeks a senior product manager/strategist to lead core content standards and AI-enabled workflows across content teams. You will work with content BUs, model a taxonomy, and redesign production workflows to improve quality and efficiency.

You must have 7+ years in content-focused PM roles, hands-on ownership of content platforms (CMS/DAM/LCMS), and a proven track record shipping AI-enabled content solutions in the last 12–18 months.