Senior Product Program Lead — End-to-End Delivery & OKRs

Pearson; Harrisburg (Dauphin County); On-site; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson, the world’s lifelong learning company, is seeking a Lead Specialist in Higher Education Product Program Management. You’ll own an end-to-end program across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market, shaping roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and delivery with cross-functional teams worldwide.

This senior IC role requires 10+ years in program management, strong engineering collaboration, and the ability to drive decisions using delivery data.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program or technical program management experience in a technology, product, or software organization, including 5+ years leading complex, multi-team programs from planning through launch.
• Technical understanding and strong engineering collaboration with delivery planning and risk management.
• Experience owning program roadmaps, delivery schedules, and cross-team dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams.
• Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority and manage escalations.
• Comfort using delivery data to define success criteria and drive decisions.

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.
• Surface dependency risk early and provide actionable recommendations.
• Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Product, UX, Content, Finance, and go-to-market partners across US and international teams.

Skills

Program management

Engineering collaboration

Roadmap ownership

Stakeholder influence

Delivery analytics

Strong communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Jira Product Discovery

Job description

Pearson, the world’s lifelong learning company, is seeking a Lead Specialist in Higher Education Product Program Management. You’ll own an end-to-end program across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market, shaping roadmaps, dependencies, risks, and delivery with cross-functional teams worldwide.

This senior IC role requires 10+ years in program management, strong engineering collaboration, and the ability to drive decisions using delivery data.