Senior Product Manager - Navvy+ Education Platform (Remote)

Pearson; Cheyenne (WY); Remote; USD 120,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a product leader to take day‑to‑day ownership of Navvy+, the PreK–12 formative and screening platform within our School Assessment portfolio. You will drive the roadmap, balance capacity, and translate problems into actionable requirements for engineering teams.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional partners, define release criteria, and ensure quality through test planning and documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business management (MBA preferred), or equivalent experience managing large assessment technology platforms.
• Have a deep understanding of technology, to communicate with cross‑functional team members.
• Have experience working in JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint for planning, documentation and tracking.
• Have a proven track record of thriving in a fast‑paced software development team, and/or 5+ years in the PreK–12 education technology space, academic assessment, or instructional products.
• Have a solid background in stakeholder management, customer support, and basic agile methodology.
• Have taken something from nothing to live users and shipped it to a date that could not move, without customer‑impacting incidents.
• Have been the product counterpart to an engineering team, writing requirements, running backlog and defect priority, and taking a full part in agile ceremonies.

Responsibilities

• Bring clarity to the vision and forward‑thinking product ideas that engage and excite our engineering teams.
• Support moving capabilities from concept to live use: understand the problem, define the version worth releasing, prototype it, specify it, and deliver it.
• Own the delivery of the Navvy+ roadmap, sequencing it against available capacity, weighing priority and communicating on deferrals.
• Look for ways to improve the platform and services, proposing creative, workable solutions for existing and new users.
• Translate problems into requirements for engineering, sign off requirements, and manage backlog and defect priority.
• Participate in stand‑ups and iteration planning with Navvy+ engineering lead and Pearson team.
• Assist in test case development and quality assurance documentation.
• Map out, communicate and manage the product release schedule with district needs and development readiness.
• For each release, provide release notes and product documentation for implementation, training and support.
• Create alliances with stakeholders, translating competing needs into product decisions and sustaining momentum from development to adoption.
• Define AI‑assisted feature requirements with data science and engineering, assessing risks and guardrails.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business management (MBA preferred), or equivalent experience managing large assessment technology platforms

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Pearson is seeking a product leader to take day‑to‑day ownership of Navvy+, the PreK–12 formative and screening platform within our School Assessment portfolio. You will drive the roadmap, balance capacity, and translate problems into actionable requirements for engineering teams.

You will collaborate with cross‑functional partners, define release criteria, and ensure quality through test planning and documentation.