Hybrid Advanced Specialist, Product Manager

at Pearson VUE

• Job title: Advanced Specialist, Product Manager
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Austin, United States

About the role

• Product Manager driving product strategy and outcomes for Q-global application at Pearson. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance clinician experience in assessment workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and outcome-based roadmap for the Q-global application, aligning it with business goals and customer needs.
• Lead continuous product discovery alongside design and engineering, regularly engaging with customers and stakeholders to identify, validate, and prioritize the most valuable problems to solve.
• Collaborate within the 4-in-the-box model (with Product Design, Engineering, and Scrum Master) to ensure shared ownership of outcomes, strong team alignment, and fast, high-quality decision-making across the product lifecycle.
• Translate strategy and customer insights into clearly articulated problems, desired outcomes, and success metrics, working with the team to shape solutions and maintain a prioritized backlog aligned to outcomes.
• Define success metrics, ensure proper instrumentation is in place, track KPIs, and make data-driven decisions to inform trade-offs, and iteratively improve product outcomes.
• Communicate product updates, vision, and progress to internal and external stakeholders. Drive alignment through clear prioritization decisions and transparent trade-offs aligned to business objectives.
• Stay informed on industry trends, competitor activities, and market demands, leveraging insights to keep the product ahead of the competition.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of product management experience, preferably with educational technologies or assessment platforms.
• Strong understanding of modern product development practices including continuous discovery, outcome-based roadmaps, and empowered, cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and deeply understand customer problems and translate them into impactful product solutions.
• Experience using product analytics, experimentation, and metrics to inform decisions. Familiarity with tools like Pendo, Mixpanel, Looker, SQL (or equivalents) is a plus.
• Demonstrated experience owning product outcomes rather than delivery outputs.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to accelerate product work, including rapid prototyping, hypothesis testing, experiment design, and synthesis of customer and data insights, resulting in improved decision quality and team efficiency.
• Solid understanding of technical constraints and trade-offs related to mobile development, APIs, and third-party integrations.
• Experience working with remote or globally distributed teams.