Senior Project & Transformation Lead - AI Enablement

Pearson

Dover (DE)

On-site

USD 110,000 - 130,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Pearson seeks a Senior Program Manager in the Project Management Office to drive business transformation and AI enablement across complex programs, including budgeting, governance, and performance reporting.

You will blend traditional project management with process improvement and AI-led initiatives, partnering across Finance, technology, and business teams to deliver measurable value and durable operating practices. Salary is $110,000–$130,000 for full-time, with applications through 10/10/26.

Qualifications

Demonstrated success leading complex projects or programs with accountability for scope, schedule, budget, quality, risk, dependencies, stakeholder alignment, and measurable outcomes.
Experience in business analysis, process improvement, operational transformation, or comparable discipline.
Practical experience using AI, automation, analytics, or digital tools to improve business work. Candidates should be able to describe what they built or implemented, how they evaluated it, and what business outcome it supported.
Strong financial and data literacy, with the ability to reconcile information, identify patterns or anomalies, build clear analyses, and communicate implications.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365. Strong Excel skills are required; experience with tools such as Power BI, Power Automate, Copilot, Visio, SharePoint, PjM software, Azure DevOps, as well as LLMs, prototyping tools, etc. or comparable platforms is needed.
Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, and executive-communication skills, including the ability to make complex work understandable and actionable.
Ability to manage competing priorities, operate independently, exercise sound judgment, and bring structure to ambiguity.

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; adapt the approach to the work rather than applying methodology mechanically.
Provide concise, evidence-based reporting for project teams, sponsors, governance forums, Finance, and senior leaders.
Support business leaders with annual and long-range strategic planning, budget development, forecasting, actuals tracking, project coding, capacity planning, and portfolio reviews.
Develop/improve the tools, reports, dashboards to ensure information is accessible and actionable.
Partner with Finance to provide business stakeholders with day to day support re: financial reporting, project and capacity reporting, project coding, visibility and troubleshooting.
Identify business process pain points, bottlenecks, and other opportunities to improve cycle time, quality, cost, scalability, and user experience through automation, AI and modernization efforts.
Lead discovery, current-state assessment, root-cause analysis, future-state design, piloting, implementation, measurement, and continuous refinements.
Standardize and manage and modernize our process library across the development workflows.
Identify and prioritize responsible AI and automation opportunities tied to clear business problems and measurable outcomes.
Partner with subject-matter experts, data and technology teams, security, privacy, legal, and other governance partners to design safe and fit-for-purpose solutions.
Rapidly prototype and evaluate and implement AI-enabled workflows, agents, copilots, or automation using defined quality criteria, human oversight, testing, and evidence-based go, pivot, or stop decisions.
Lead change with clear stakeholder analysis, communications, involvement, training, adoption measures, and reinforcement.
Create environments in which teams can move quickly, make work visible, learn through disciplined experimentation, and ask for help early.
Share practices, coach colleagues, and contribute to stronger project, program, business-analysis, process-improvement, and AI-enabled delivery capabilities.