Pearson
Senior Commercial Product Manager
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $120K - $140K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ February 21st, 2025
SaaS
Edtech.com's Summary
Pearson is hiring a Senior Commercial Product Manager. The role involves managing GED business unit needs for learners, educators, and employers across domestic and international markets. Responsibilities include aligning to KPIs, delivering learning products, and contributing to revenue goals.
Highlights
- Analyze data to enhance product strategy and performance.
- Align to Key Performance Indicators and communicate strategies.
- Drive product portfolio development to meet student progression goals.
- Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of product management experience required.
- Compensation range of $120,000 to $140,000.
- Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills expected.
- Familiarity with project management methodologies and digital solution delivery.
- Beneficial experience includes SaaS product management and financial modeling.
- Remote position with a focus on Central Time zone hours.
Senior Commercial Product Manager Full Description
Senior Commercial Product Manager
Virtual, USA
Workplace Type: Remote
Job: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Our Organization
We are the world’s leading learning company. Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 17,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them.
Senior Commercial Product Manager – Enterprise Learning & Skills, North America
As a Senior Product Manager for GED, a business unit of Enterprise Learning & Skills (ELS), you will be responsible for ensuring that we meet the needs of key customers including learners, educators, and employers in domestic and international markets.
Who We Are
A mission-driven team that prizes respect, hard work, humility, and transparency. Equal opportunity employer focused on creating equal opportunity for individuals through portable, data-rich evidence of achievements.
Who you are
- A no-job-too-big-no-job-too-small professional who believes in what we're doing and wants to help us scale.
- A self-driven individual with a drive to make an impact.
- A hyper-organized, super-responsive, generally on-top-of-your-stuff kind of person.
- An individual with perspective and the judgment to identify what you can fix and what you need help with.
- A process-focused thinker with the ability to design systems that scale.
- A quick learner willing to work without perfect information and the ability to get smart fast as new business opportunities demand.
What you'll do here
- Analyze data, take action, and help GED and Accelerated Pathways deliver on the promise of learning for life
- Align to, track, and communicate progress against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Objectives and Key Results (OKRs);
- Support development and progress on a detailed project schedule and work plan.
- Understand customer needs to ensure product portfolio can deliver on student progression goals
- Provide project updates on a consistent basis to various stakeholders about strategy, adjustments, and progress.
- Drive to revenue goals
- Work alongside the leadership to shape the strategy.
- Work with product team to identify gaps in market for learning products and deliver recommendations for future-proofing the product portfolio
- Have a relentless focus on a delightful user experience and on solving for our customer’s most important needs.
- Demonstrate ongoing curiosity about and stay close to the talent and learning ecosystem in which we operate.
What you know, have done, or can do (must haves)
- Bachelor’s degree
- 5-7 years’ experience with driving revenue in a product management role
- Strong relationship management skills, and stakeholder management skills
- Data-driven mindset; superior written and verbal communication skills; exemplary resourcefulness.
- Strong familiarity with project management methodologies and best practices.
- Big picture thinker capable of executing on the day-to-day details and tasks.
- Proven process manager and facilitator of prioritization discussions.
- Proven ability to complete projects according to outlined scope, budget, and timeline.
- Previous success in developing and delivering digital solutions to meet customer needs;
- Strong attention to deadlines and budgetary guidelines.
- Experience working with analyzing data to drive decision-making
- Experience coaching and educating project teams to strengthen team members’ capabilities and skill sets.
What you may know and have done (nice to haves)
- Software as a Service (SaaS) product management experience.
- Capable of driving to objectives with multidisciplinary team members from marketing, analytics, IT, finance, legal, and operations
- Financial modeling to build product and vision use-cases.
- Relevant credentials in project management, data analysis, product management, etc.
- Experience in learning and credentialing, higher ed and GED
- Experience in corporate learning and development programs.
- AI experience a plus
Preferred Skills
- Cohesive Collaboration
- Empathy
- Listening
- Communication
- Data Analysis
- Creativity
- Problem solving
- Relationship Management
Location
- Remote or Hybrid in Minneapolis or another location if preferred; ability to work core Central Time zone hours
What to expect from Pearson
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 the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New York State, New York City, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The full-time salary range for this role is $120,000 to $140,000.
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We strive for a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Note that the information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process.
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