Senior Program Manager - Transformation & AI Enablement

Pearson; Augusta (ME); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Program Manager in the United States to lead cross-functional product-development and business-transformation initiatives from discovery through delivery and transition to operations.

The role focuses on modernizing financial and business operations, enabling AI, and delivering measurable outcomes across governance, reporting, and continuous improvement. The full-time salary is $110,000-$130,000.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated success leading complex projects or programs with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment.
• Experience in business analysis, process improvement, operational transformation, or comparable discipline.
• Practical experience using AI, automation, analytics, or digital tools to improve business work, with measurable outcomes.
• Strong financial and data literacy with ability to reconcile information and communicate implications.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365; Excel and related tools plus Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot, Visio, SharePoint, and Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional product-development and business-transformation initiatives from discovery through delivery and transition to operations.
• Build integrated plans across waterfall, Agile, and hybrid delivery environments and adapt approaches to the work.
• Provide concise, evidence-based reporting for project teams, sponsors, governance forums, Finance, and senior leaders.
• Develop and improve tools and dashboards to ensure information is accessible and actionable.
• Partner with Finance for day-to-day financial reporting, project coding, and capacity visibility.
• Identify process pain points and opportunities to improve cycle time, quality, cost, and scalability via automation and AI.
• Lead discovery, current-state assessment, root-cause analysis, future-state design, piloting, and continuous refinements.
• Standardize and modernize the process library across development workflows.
• Identify and prioritize responsible AI and automation opportunities tied to clear business problems and measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with SMEs, data/tech teams, security, privacy, legal, and governance partners to design safe solutions.
• Prototype and evaluate AI-enabled workflows with defined quality criteria and governance.

Skills

Project management

Program management

Business analysis

Process improvement

AI fluency

Financial literacy

Excel

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Power BI

Power Automate

Copilot

Visio

SharePoint

Azure DevOps

LLMs

Project management software

Prototyping tools

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Project Manager/Program Manager in the United States to lead cross-functional product-development and business-transformation initiatives from discovery through delivery and transition to operations.

The role focuses on modernizing financial and business operations, enabling AI, and delivering measurable outcomes across governance, reporting, and continuous improvement. The full-time salary is $110,000-$130,000.