Principal, Product Management

Pearson VUE

Principal Product Manager focusing on AI-related features within educational products at Pearson. Collaborating with teams for product development and coaching on best practices.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeHoboken • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $185,000 - $210,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Run sprints with internal and external engineering teams, to drive AI innovation and rapid experimentation with a data driven, learning hungry mindset
Build working product prototypes and features in collaboration with engineering teams
Develop compelling business cases and integration roadmaps for AI initiatives
Help teams solve complex technical challenges and drive modernisation efforts
Coach teams on product management best practices, discovery methods, and ways of working
Facilitate discovery sessions and help teams integrate discovery into their backlogs, helping teams manage parallel tracks of discovery and execution
Guide teams in developing high-quality MRDs, PRDs, and refining work into shippable iterations
Flex between hands-on execution and coaching to build team capabilities
Embed into business units to support customer-centric roadmaps and strategic planning
Role model interactions with engineering, design and other stakeholders
Help enable the change to new ways of working and practices that make a difference
Help teams refine work into reasonable chunks and maintain effective backlogs
Support continuous process improvement and practice optimization
Identify and implement practices to optimize product development cycles

Requirements

What you’ll need

5/6+ years of product management experience with demonstrable technical and/or AI/ML exposure
Strong technical background or proven ability to work effectively with engineering teams
Track record shipping technical products and building prototypes
Experience with agile methodologies and running product sprints, with a strongly data driven mindset
Understanding of implementation of AI/ML technologies and modern product development practices
Excellent coaching and communication skills with ability to influence without authority.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Opportunity to participate in an annual incentive program
Information on benefits offered is here.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementAIMLagile methodologiesprototypingtechnical product shippingdata driven mindsetdiscovery methodsMRDsPRDs

Soft Skills

coachingcommunicationinfluence without authorityproblem solvingteam collaborationcustomer-centric approachfacilitationprocess improvementstrategic planningadaptability