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Elsevier is hiring a Product Manager. The role requires leading the development and execution of product features, ensuring they meet customer needs, and involves collaborating with cross-functional teams. The position demands prioritizing customer issues and presenting updates to stakeholders.

Highlights

Lead product development throughout the lifecycle with responsibility for budgets and profitability.
Experience with modern, agile product practices.
Strong product knowledge, business case development, and plan formulation.
Required 4-6 years of product management experience.
Compensation includes health benefits, retirement plans, and wellness incentives.
Ability to represent the product in both customer-facing and technical discussions.
Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills and problem-solving abilities.
Knowledge of UX best practices and familiarity with Generative AI preferred.
Flexible work hours and comprehensive family benefits offered.

Product Manager Full Description

Product Manager

Pennsylvania

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Full time

About our Team

Elsevier’s Education division is the market leader in digital learning solutions- including assessments, simulations, and Generative AI- for students in the fields of Nursing & Health Professions. Our culture is about passion for education and health and helping more students become practice ready. You will be part of an energetic, highly talented team that has continuous Senior Management level attention. You will report to the VP of Product.

About the Role

The Product Manager will lead the development and execution of product features, ensuring they address customer needs and pain points. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, prioritizing customer issues and presenting updates to stakeholders

Responsibilities

Ability to lead a specific product family throughout the product lifecycle with responsibility for budgets and profitability.
Familiar with modern, agile product practices.
Recent experience as a product manager or business analyst working on a team developing and launching digital, web-based product, preferably with a track record of scale and commercial success.
Effective blend of business and technology expertise and managing the product lifecycle. Represent product in customer-facing environments, engage in technical discussions with development teams and maintain understanding of new technologies, translate customer pain/needs into requirements.
Strong collaborator with demonstrated track record working with stakeholders across the company, particularly sales, marketing, content, and technology.
Experience defining product KPIs/OKRs and staying disciplined in making data-driven product decisions.
Strong knowledge and appreciation for UX best practices and testing methodologies (e.g., A/B testing).
Ability to learn, think creatively, and problem solve (recognizing new information, assimilating it, and applying it to new ends).
Excellent interpersonal skills including social awareness and judgment, persuasion and negotiation, relationship building, collaboration and team building skills.
Familiarity with Generative AI is a plus

Requirements

Have a minimum of 4-6 years of product management experience
Possess a proven track record of identifying, leading and releasing product changes or enhancements, improving customer satisfaction and commercial impact
Have strong product knowledge and the ability to develop related business cases and product plans
Demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders

Work in a way that works for you

We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organization. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.

Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive

Working for you

At Elsevier, we know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

Health Benefits: Comprehensive, multi-carrier program for medical, dental and vision benefits
Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with match and an Employee Share Purchase Plan
Wellbeing: Wellness platform with incentives, Headspace app subscription, Employee Assistance and Time-off Programs
Short-and-Long Term Disability, Life and Accidental Death Insurance, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity
Family Benefits, including bonding and family care leaves, adoption and surrogacy benefits
Health Savings, Health Care, Dependent Care and Commuter Spending Accounts
Up to two days of paid leave each to participate in Employee Resource Groups and to volunteer with your charity of choice

About the Business

A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world’s grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.

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Elsevier is an equal opportunity employer: qualified applicants are considered for and treated during employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, protected veteran status, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. We are committed to providing a fair and accessible hiring process. If you have a disability or other need that requires accommodation or adjustment, please let us know by completing our Applicant Request Support Form: https://forms.office.com/r/eVgFxjLmAK , or please contact 1-855-833-5120.

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