Elsevier
Principal Product Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - Philadelphia, PA
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Product Development
🗓️ May 30th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Elsevier is hiring a Principal Product Manager. The role involves owning one or more products or critical product features, driving problem solutions with delivery teams, and proposing new strategies to ensure commercial success within Elsevier's Education division. The Principal Product Manager is responsible for mentoring cross-functional teams and actively participating in business strategic planning.
Highlights
- Interacts regularly with customers to understand use cases and business needs.
- Develops and validates product strategies based on customer insights, market trends, and competitor knowledge.
- Drives the research/testing strategy and ensures product decisions are data-driven.
- Oversees go-to-market strategies and ensures KPIs and revenue goals are met.
- 10-15 years of experience in Product Management, preferably with an agile team.
- Preferred Master's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.
- Health, retirement, and wellness benefits, including comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Offers flexible working hours and numerous wellbeing initiatives.
Principal Product Manager Full Description
Principal Product Manager
Philadelphia, PA
Massachusetts
Full time
Principal Product Manager
Would you like to join an innovative team at the forefront of technological advancement in education focused product development?
Are you ready to take your experience with generative AI technologies to the next level?
About the 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 Principal Product Manager I will own one or more products or critical product features within a complex product, requiring extensive company coordination. He/she will drive solutions to problems with the delivery team(s) and across organizations and disciplines without assistance and set the agenda for the product domain(s), driving program execution. In addition, he/she will propose new business o product strategies that reflects the customer's current and future needs and will drive commercial success. This individual will actively mentor and informally lead cross-functional team members.
Responsibilities
- Interacts with customers regularly and thoroughly understands their use cases and business.
- Validates product strategy based on knowledge of customers, competitors and market trends.
- Interacts with other companies in their industry domain and engages with start-ups.
- Drives formulation of overall research/testing strategy and ensure product decisions are based on data.
Identify key data and set KPIs, priorities, and dashboards. - Develop hypothesis-driven product evaluation strategies, including AB testing for interactive products in-line with NHE’s Responsible AI framework.
- Develop clear go-to-market launch plans with marketing and sales teams.
- Participate in business strategic planning and contribute to sales and business development strategy.
- Develops appropriate metrics and tracking of launch initiatives and ensures reporting to stakeholders.
- Ensures ROI for go to market strategy, including revenue goals.
- Oversees the product strategy, planning and execution.
- Propose or support business cases for investment.
- Use data to drive commercial decisions and growth opportunities.
- Utilize or extend the company's platform and underlying technologies to create new product features.
Requirements
- Have 10-15 years of Product Management experience working in an agile team environment.
- Have experience Identifying and championing innovations that are developed and released to the marketplace with commercial success. Demonstrate long-term ownership and success in leading product lifecycle strategy and planning.
- Have served as a resource for internal and external groups to cultivate and evaluate product concepts.
- Have ability to develop deep customer relationships that drive meaningful dialogue about the future direction of a product.
- A Master's degree in a technical subject (Computer Science or Engineering) is preferred
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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