Senior Product Manager - Strategic Innovation

Elsevier; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Elsevier is launching Embedded Innovation Squads to drive GenAI and automation within business functions, delivering scalable productivity improvements. We seek a Senior Product Manager to join an Innovation Squad, leading discovery, prioritization, and delivery of internal productivity solutions.

The role emphasizes agile delivery, AI-enabled workflow tools, and measurable efficiency gains across enterprise environments with strong partner engagement across levels of seniority.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management delivering software in an agile setting.
• Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and automation concepts for workplace productivity.
• Experience building or managing AI-enabled workflow tools in enterprise environments.
• Ability to lead workflow discovery, define productivity problems, and convert ambiguity into roadmaps.
• Strong partnership skills with engineering and stakeholders, including build/buy/partner tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Partner with internal teams to understand workflows, bottlenecks, and pain points, translating them into validated opportunities with clear ROI.
• Create and manage a prioritized roadmap of high-impact productivity use cases, balancing speed, feasibility, and scalability.
• Define success metrics and reporting for each solution (adoption, time savings, quality, satisfaction) and drive rapid iteration.
• Lead end-to-end product delivery in a fast-moving agile environment, collaborating daily with engineers and operational stakeholders.
• Scale impact beyond the squad by documenting patterns and reusable components and enabling enterprise-wide adoption.

Skills

Product management

GenAI

Automation

AI-enabled workflows

Roadmapping

Stakeholder management

Discovery

Agile

Cross-functional teamwork

Job description

About the team, Elsevier is launching Embedded Innovation Squads to help teams across the organization benefit from GenAI and automation in practical, scalable, and well-supported ways. The program embeds small, dedicated, cross-functional teams directly within business functions to identify high-value productivity opportunities and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and speed.

About the role, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join an Innovation Squad and lead discovery, prioritization, and delivery of internal productivity solutions.

RequirementsPossess current and extensive product management experience delivering software solutions in an agile environment, preferably with internal or operational focusHands-on fluency with generative AI tools and modern automation concepts with ability to stay current on technical and product advances relevant to workplace productivityExperience building or managing AI-enabled workflow tools, process automation, and productivity systems, especially in enterprise environmentsDemonstrated ability to lead workflow discovery, define productivity problems clearly, and convert operational ambiguity into prioritized roadmaps and shipped solutionsExtensive partnership skills with engineering teams and stakeholders, including comfort making pragmatic build/buy/partner tradeoffsExperience defining operational metrics and using workflow data to drive product decisions and iteration cyclesProven success delivering complex, cross-functional productivity initiatives that deliver measurable efficiency gainsPossess current and extensive discovery expertise. Skilled at framing problems, mapping workflows, quantifying impact, and validating solutions rapidly with stakeholders; comfortable balancing speed and rigor.Ability to work effectively across matrixed organizations and engage productively with different levels of seniority

ResponsibilitiesPartnering with internal teams to deeply understand workflows, bottlenecks, and operational pain points, then translate them into validated product opportunities with clear ROI potentialCreating and managing a prioritized roadmap of high-impact productivity use cases, balancing implementation speed, technical feasibility, organizational risk, and scalability across functionsDefining success metrics and reporting for each solution, including adoption rates, time savings, quality improvements, and employee satisfaction, using data to drive rapid iterationLeading end-to-end product delivery in a fast-moving agile environment, partnering daily with engineers and operational stakeholdersHelping to define productivity-first product development by applying modern discovery methods, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based decision makingScaling impact beyond your squad by documenting patterns, reusable components, and learnings, partnering with enterprise teams to make solutions discoverable and adoptable organization-wide