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Product Manager II

🇺🇸 North Andover, MA

🕑 Full-Time

💰 TBD

💻 Product Development

🗓️ June 9th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Elsevier is hiring a Product Manager II. The role involves collaborating with a cross-functional team of engineers, UX experts, and analysts to enhance the user experience for article publication. The Product Manager will engage with editors and publishers, develop product features, and contribute to strategic product vision and innovation. They will also be responsible for data-driven culture growth and ensuring a seamless experience from submission to publication. 

Highlights 
  • Interact with editors and publishers to develop product features.
  • Participate in product discovery and new product development.
  • Define and test product hypotheses quantitatively and qualitatively.
  • Contribute to a data-driven, innovative culture for digital products.
  • Requires excellent communication skills and experience in delivering data science products.
  • Health, retirement, and wellness benefits, including comprehensive insurance and a 401(k) plan.
  • Family benefits including adoption and surrogacy support.
  • Opportunity for personal and professional growth with study assistance and sabbaticals.
  • Engage in community activities with paid leave for volunteering.

Product Manager II Full Description

Product Manager II
North Andover, MA
Full time

Are you keen to develop your Product Management career?
Do you want to be part of the team creating the market leading publishing platform? 

About our team
Our team supports research groups with the submission of millions of manuscripts annually, as well as the peer-review and editorial workflows for the largest, global scientific publisher. With advancement of AI and LLM technologies, we continually improve how we help researchers get published easier while safeguarding the integrity of knowledge. 
 
About the role 
As a product manager for Elsevier’s global Submissions, you will enable growth of knowledge, research and innovation for our researcher community. 

As part of our team, you will work within the wider publishing experience. You will be part of a cross-functional, agile squad of engineers, UX, subject-matter experts and analysts to create a start of the art user experience for article publication. You will grow trust & build alignment with stakeholders in Technology, Operations and Publishing. You will contribute to our data-driven, innovative culture for our digital submission products and services. You will ensure authors return to Elsevier for the best experience from submission to trusted publication. 
 
Responsibilities:
  • Interacting frequently with editors and publishers to understand their problems, identify their needs, and develop product features, tools or services that solve their problems and achieve business goals  
  • Generating new ideas by analyzing product data for insights and participating in product discovery, according to defined processes, for new product development 
  • Defining product hypotheses to test in a qualitative or quantitative manner, such as usability testing or AB testing 
  • Contributing to our strategic product vision and priorities in a problem-focus area, and champion future product direction 
  • Creating product development plans, conducting product-level opportunity assessment and contributing to business case development 
 
Requirements:
  • A passion for solving user problems and delivering solutions 
  • Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, and executives alike 
  • Delivered products and/or services with data science needs and capabilities  
  • Experience contributing to commercialized features or products, from understanding user needs to conceptualization to execution to post-release management.  
  • A sense of ownership for your development and career 

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 for you
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 and improve 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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