Senior Product Program Lead – End-to-End Delivery

Pearson; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is hiring for a senior Lead Specialist in Higher Education Product Program Management. You will own a program end to end, from roadmap and dependencies to risks and delivery, coordinating across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market.

You will drive prioritization, schedules, and launch readiness with globally distributed teams, measuring success by outcomes and velocity. The role demands hands-on delivery, scalable process improvements, and strong communication.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program or technical program management experience in a technology, product, or software organization.
• Technical understanding and strong engineering collaboration.
• Experience owning program roadmaps, delivery schedules, and cross-team dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams, including distributed teams in different time zones.
• Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority, manage escalations, and hold a recommendation under pressure.
• Comfort using delivery data to define success criteria, run status, and drive decisions.
• Strong written communication and facilitation.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end program plan across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market, and the OKRs it delivers each quarter.
• Own prioritization tradeoffs with Product and Engineering leads.
• Drive delivery schedules and launch readiness across multiple teams, including globally-distributed teams, and anticipate bottlenecks before they reach the critical path.
• Surface dependency risk early, before it blocks another team, and elevate with a recommendation attached.
• Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Product, UX, Content, Finance, and go-to-market partners across US and international teams.

Skills

Program management

Technical program management

Cross-team coordination

Stakeholder influence

Data-driven decisions

Technical understanding

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jira Product Discovery

Job description

Pearson is hiring for a senior Lead Specialist in Higher Education Product Program Management. You will own a program end to end, from roadmap and dependencies to risks and delivery, coordinating across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market.

You will drive prioritization, schedules, and launch readiness with globally distributed teams, measuring success by outcomes and velocity. The role demands hands-on delivery, scalable process improvements, and strong communication.