Lead Specialist, Product Management

Join our Team today! Pearson is evolving into a strategic partner empowering enterprise organizations to navigate market shifts future-proof talent and drive measurable impact through AI assessments workforce analytics and accredited learning.

The Role

Help shape how millions of learners and professionals carry share and use verified learning and education records. As Lead Specialsit Product Manager Pearsons working with our learning credential wallet product roadmap and our existing Credly Workforce product model youll lead delivery at the intersection of verifiable credentials workforce mobility and learner identity. Youll turn bold ideas into real shipped experiencesworking side-by-side with engineering and designand help define what credentialing in a wallet-first world looks like.

What Youll Own

• Own end-to-end delivery of prioritized features across Pearson Wallet and Credly Workforcekeeping work tightly aligned to business goals and real learner outcomes
• Translate business needs into crisp actionable requirements and documentation so teams can build with clarity and confidence
• Partner day-to-day with engineering UX and cross-functional stakeholders to unblock work sharpen scope and ship on a predictable cadence
• Coach and mentor teammates on product craft process and technical fluencyraising the bar for how we build
• Surface risks dependencies and gaps earlyand drive them to resolution before they slow delivery

About You

• Adaptability: Navigate change re-prioritize fast and keep teams moving
• Artificial Intelligence: Use AI concepts/tools to streamline work and unlock new ideas
• Business Acumen: Tie product choices to strategy metrics and outcomes
• Customer Discovery: Find customer truths and turn insights into product bets
• Data Analysis: Use data (and judgment) to decide and validate impact
• Design Thinking: Apply a human-centered approach from discovery to launch
• Product Development: Drive delivery from idea to launch to iteration
• Product Requirements Documents: Create and maintain PRDs that align teams and enable execution
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build alignment fast and communicate tradeoffs
• Strategic Thinking: Set direction connect dots and make smart bets in ambiguity
• Storytelling: Make complex ideas simple so people align and act
• Technology Roadmap: Align teams on now/next/laterand why
• Value Proposition: Clearly state value and deliver experiences customers choose

Qualifications (Education & Experience):

• Proven product management experience ideally shipping digital products at scale
• Strong track record delivering complex cross-functional features and projects end-to-end
• Experience partnering closely with UX and engineering in a collaborative iterative environment
• Comfort with agile methodologies and fast-paced delivery cycles
• Experience with digital wallets verifiable credentials or open credentialing standards (e.g. Open Badges W3C Verifiable Credentials CLR) is a plusbut not required; well help you ramp up quickly

Ready to make an Impact

This is a full-time and remote working role position with occasional travel in our Hoboken New Jersey office

Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set level of experience and specific location. As required by California Colorado Hawaii Illinois Maryland Minnesota New Jersey New York State New York City Vermont Washington State and Washington DC laws the pay range for this position is as follows:

The minimum full-time salary range is between $160000 to $180000.

This position is eligible toparticipatein a sales incentive plan and information on benefits offered ishere.

Applications will be accepted through May 22 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs