Pearson
Product Program Manager
🇺🇸 Hybrid - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 $100K - $110K
💻 Product Development
🗓️ July 30th, 2025
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Pearson is hiring a Product Program Manager to lead and coordinate strategic programs that drive impactful organizational outcomes. The role involves managing complex initiatives across multiple teams, ensuring alignment with business goals, and delivering measurable results through effective program leadership and stakeholder collaboration.
Highlights
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of cross-departmental strategic programs.
- Manage program scope, goals, deliverables, dependencies, and milestones.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Go-to-Market, Content, and Customer Success teams.
- Identify and mitigate program-level risks and resolve impediments affecting timelines or deliverables.
- Implement program governance structures including reporting frameworks and dashboards.
- Monitor and report key performance indicators to senior leadership.
- Required proficiency in Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Smartsheet, and MS Project.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant fields; MBA or PMP preferred with 5+ years in program management.
- Preferred experience includes working with distributed teams, budgeting, resource forecasting, and product lifecycle management.
- Salary range: $100,000 – $110,000 per annum depending on experience and qualifications.
Product Program Manager Full Description
Product Program Manager
USA
Workplace Type: Hybrid
- Job: Product Management
- Schedule: FULL_TIME
- Req ID: 20443
Job Summary:
We are seeking an experienced, strategic, and detail-oriented Program Manager to lead cross-functional programs that deliver impactful outcomes across the organization. This role requires a strong background in program delivery, team coordination, stakeholder engagement, and strategic alignment to organizational goals. The ideal candidate will manage multiple complex initiatives, ensuring timely execution, high quality, and measurable results.
Key Responsibilities:
Program Leadership & Execution
- Lead end-to-end planning and execution of strategic programs spanning multiple teams or departments.
- Define and manage scope, goals, deliverables, dependencies, and milestones across projects within a program.
- Ensure alignment with business goals and drive programs forward through ambiguity and complexity.
Cross-functional Coordination
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Go-to-Market, Content, and Customer Success teams to align priorities and resources.
- Act as a central point of contact and communication between project teams, executives, and stakeholders.
Risk & Issue Management
- Identify program-level risks, develop mitigation strategies, and escalate issues when necessary.
- Track and resolve program impediments and interdependencies that impact timelines or deliverables.
Process & Governance
- Implement and maintain effective program governance structures, including reporting frameworks, dashboards, and communication plans.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying gaps in processes and working with teams to implement best practices.
Performance & Reporting
- Monitor key performance indicators and provide regular reporting on progress, roadblocks, and outcomes to senior leadership.
- Support organizational planning cycles by providing input on timelines, resource needs, and cross-team dependencies.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (MBA or PMP certification preferred).
- 5+ years of program management experience in a technology or product-driven organization.
- Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale programs with multiple workstreams and stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of project and program management tools (e.g., Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence, Smartsheet, MS Project).
- Experience with all project methodologies.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
- Strategic thinker with a proactive approach to solving complex problems.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with distributed teams and/or global delivery models.
- Familiarity with budgeting, resource forecasting, and vendor management.
- Background in software development or product lifecycle management is a strong plus.
- Ability to drive cultural change, influence without authority, and navigate matrixed organizations.
Applications will be accepted through August 1. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
The salary range for this position is $100,000 – $110,000 per annum, depending on skills, experience, and qualifications.
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 Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. 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 actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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Job: Product Management
Job Family: PRODUCT
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