Lead Specialist, Product Program Management
United States18h ago
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About the role
About Pearson
Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company. We serve learners at every stage of life, from early childhood through higher education and into the workplace. Our Higher Education business partners with colleges, universities, instructors, and students in the US and around the world.
Why Pearson Higher Education
Pearson's purpose is to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. In Higher Education we support students from the first day of a course through graduation and into their careers, with courseware, AI-powered study tools, and content that meet them where they are. We also support instructors with the content, assessments, and insight they need to see how each student is doing and spend more of their time teaching.
Higher Education Courseware brings these platforms, content, and learning tools together for students and instructors in the US and around the world.
About the Role
Higher Education Product Program Management is the engine for organizational velocity. We turn collaboration into fast decisions, keep every program on one plan and one set of OKRs, and own the delivery story our leaders hear.
As Lead Specialist, you own a product program and the outcomes it commits to. You drive the program end to end: the roadmap, the dependencies, the risks, what is realistic by when, and what it will take to get there. You own the program plan across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market, and the prioritization tradeoffs with your Product and Engineering partners that shape it.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You understand how your programs fit into the broader Higher Education portfolio and strategy. You see dependencies before they collide, you stay hands on in delivery, and you are measured on the outcomes you own and how long it takes to reach them. You find the problems, frame them, and lead the resolution.
What You'll Do
Cross-functional Program Leadership
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.