Senior Product Manager, Content Platforms & AI

Pearson; Jackson (MS); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to lead content standards and production workflows. You will work alongside content BU teams, shaping taxonomy, metadata, and AI-enabled content processes to deliver measurable quality and learner outcomes.

You will guide the design of MRDs, PRDs, and specs, and mentor other PMs while driving impactful improvements across content platforms.

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of product management experience, with focus in content, publishing, or content platform domains.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards work: taxonomy and metadata design, quality frameworks.
• Direct experience with authoring, production, and delivery platforms (CMS, DAM, LCMS) including migrations.
• Built and shipped substantive content systems as owning PM, including with AI tooling in last 12–18 months.
• Experience in empowered product team models with outcome ownership.
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and senior audiences.
• Background as a content architect, publishing ops lead, or technical PM.

Responsibilities

• Implement the standards spine inside real business unit work with global quality data standards and metadata accuracy.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows, removing handoffs and rework.
• Partner with content leaders through strategy, planning, and craft, including challenging stakeholders.
• Guide teams to high-quality plans and artifacts tracing to learner jobs and business outcomes.
• Design and deliver training anchored in real content problems.
• Build AI fluency across the content talent base with practical applications.
• Identify and prototype automation for manual content tasks and prove value.
• Introduce AI-assisted content generation with evaluation, telemetry, and human-in-the-loop.
• Maintain a clear view on where AI helps or not in content work.
• Model collaboration across product, engineering, design, and editorial.

Skills

Product management

Content platforms

Metadata design

AI tooling

Continuous discovery

Stakeholder coaching

Educational content

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

CMS

DAM

LCMS

XML-based content

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to lead content standards and production workflows. You will work alongside content BU teams, shaping taxonomy, metadata, and AI-enabled content processes to deliver measurable quality and learner outcomes.

You will guide the design of MRDs, PRDs, and specs, and mentor other PMs while driving impactful improvements across content platforms.