Senior Product Manager - Content Standards & AI Workflow

Pearson; Lincoln (NE); 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 workflow improvements. You will work with content business units to design taxonomy, metadata, and AI-enabled processes that raise quality and efficiency.

This role blends hands-on execution with coaching across the content team, reporting into Pearson's content strategy groups. You will partner on content strategy, roadmap planning, and craft, and help transform how content is planned, built, and

Qualifications

• Seven or more years of product management experience in content, publishing, or content platform domains.
• Hands-on ownership of content standards work: taxonomy and metadata design, quality frameworks, structured content.
• Experience with authoring, production, and delivery platforms (CMS, DAM, LCMS).
• Built and shipped substantive content systems work, including with AI tooling, in the last 12–18 months.
• Experience in empowered product team models focusing on outcomes.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Implement the standards spine inside real business unit work with global quality data standards and 95% metadata accuracy.
• Redesign and shorten production workflows with stakeholders to remove handoffs and rework.
• Guide teams to high-quality plans and content strategy traceable to learner jobs and business outcomes.
• Design and deliver training anchored in real content problems at Pearson.
• Build AI fluency across the content talent base and pilot automation where value is proven.
• Bring evaluation, telemetry, and human-in-the-loop design to AI-assisted content generation.
• Role model collaboration across product, engineering, design, and editorial.

Skills

Content product management

Taxonomy design

Metadata design

AI tooling

Content platforms

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

CMS

DAM

LCMS

XML content systems

Job description

Pearson is seeking a senior product manager/strategist to lead content standards and production workflow improvements. You will work with content business units to design taxonomy, metadata, and AI-enabled processes that raise quality and efficiency.

This role blends hands-on execution with coaching across the content team, reporting into Pearson's content strategy groups. You will partner on content strategy, roadmap planning, and craft, and help transform how content is planned, built, and