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Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company. We serve learners at every stage of life, from early childhood through higher education and into the workplace. Our Higher Education business partners with colleges, universities, instructors, and students in the US and around the world.
Why Pearson Higher Education
Pearson's purpose is to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. In Higher Education we support students from the first day of a course through graduation and into their careers, with courseware, AI-powered study tools, and content that meet them where they are. We also support instructors with the content, assessments, and insight they need to see how each student is doing and spend more of their time teaching.
Higher Education Courseware brings these platforms, content, and learning tools together for students and instructors in the US and around the world.
About the Role
Higher Education Product Program Management is the engine for organizational velocity. We turn collaboration into fast decisions, keep every program on one plan and one set of OKRs, and own the delivery story our leaders hear.
As Lead Specialist, you own a product program and the outcomes it commits to. You drive the program end to end: the roadmap, the dependencies, the risks, what is realistic by when, and what it will take to get there. You own the program plan across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market, and the prioritization tradeoffs with your Product and Engineering partners that shape it.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You understand how your programs fit into the broader Higher Education portfolio and strategy. You see dependencies before they collide, you stay hands on in delivery, and you are measured on the outcomes you own and how long it takes to reach them. You find the problems, frame them, and lead the resolution.
Cross-functional Program Leadership
- Own the end-to-end program plan across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market, and the OKRs it delivers each quarter.
- Own prioritization tradeoffs with Product and Engineering leads.
- Drive delivery schedules and launch readiness across multiple teams, including globally-distributed teams, and anticipate bottlenecks before they reach the critical path.
- Surface dependency risk early, before it blocks another team, and escalate with a recommendation attached.
- Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Product, UX, Content, Finance, and go-to-market partners across US and international teams.
Strong Program Standards & Enablement
- Write and maintain the program charter: scope, milestones, success criteria, and the metrics that show whether it worked.
- Keep the program's documentation current so pages, plans, and links reflect the actual state of the program.
- Track open action items, decisions, and commitments across your program and drive follow-through.
- Run your program's planning cadence, quarterly reviews and annual planning, with pre-reads before any meeting that carries a decision.
- Drive clear decisions and communication.
- Adopt and advance program standards for roadmap governance, communication templates, and status reporting, and collaborate closely with peers on dependencies.
Leverage Tooling Effectively
- Keep status current in Jira and Jira Product Discovery (JPD) and drive data quality.
- Maintain the plan, program transparency, and ensure JPD and Jira reflect the real plan: priorities, dependencies, and cut lines.
- Use delivery data such as cycle time, throughput, and OKR health to frame status and decisions.
- Find ways to use AI-assisted tools to reduce program overhead and improve the delivery insight available to the team.
What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of program or technical program management experience in a technology, product, or software organization, including 5+ years leading complex, multi-team programs from planning through launch.
- Technical understanding and strong engineering collaboration. You know how software is planned, built, and released well enough to work with engineering leads on scope, sequencing, and risk, and engineers see you as part of the team.
- Experience owning program roadmaps, delivery schedules, and cross-team dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams, including distributed teams in different time zones.
- A record of working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and building a plan where none existed.
- Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority, manage escalations, and hold a recommendation under pressure.
- Comfort using delivery data to define success criteria, run status, and drive decisions.
- Strong written communication and facilitation. Your pre-reads and updates get read, and your meetings end in decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. A technical background is helpful but not required.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Jira Product Discovery or a similar roadmapping tool.
- Experience in higher education, courseware, or another product-led organization where program management works closely with Product and Engineering.
- Experience with AI-assisted program management tools.
- Program Management or Agile certifications.
What Success Looks Like
In the first 90 days
- You can describe your program end to end, including its dependencies and what is at risk.
- You own at least one active workstream and are driving it with minimal direction.
- You have identified at least one place where current practice falls short and have started working on a better standard.
At 6 months
- Your program is shipping on time with no surprises for leadership. When something goes wrong, you raise it early with a mitigation already in hand.
- Your OKRs and cycle time are visible, current, and improving.
- Other program managers come to you when they are stuck, and at least one practice you introduced is in use beyond your own program.
How We Work
Four principles define Higher Education Product Program Management:
- The engine for org velocity. Collaboration meets rapid decision making. Processes are efficient and make sense.
- A catalyst for how we work. A team that drives ownership and accountability.
- Optimized for visibility. See the big picture across Pearson and tell one Higher Ed story.
- Anchored in outcomes and delivery. Broad portfolio understanding, with hands-on involvement in delivery.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The minimum full-time salary range is between $140,000 - $150,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 9th November. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
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.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Job: Product Management
Job Family: PRODUCT
Organization: Higher Education
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type:
Req ID: 26481
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About Pearson
Pearson is the world's lifelong learning company. We serve learners at every stage of life, from early childhood through higher education and into the workplace. Our Higher Education business partners with colleges, universities, instructors, and students in the US and around the world.
Why Pearson Higher Education
Pearson's purpose is to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. In Higher Education we support students from the first day of a course through graduation and into their careers, with courseware, AI-powered study tools, and content that meet them where they are. We also support instructors with the content, assessments, and insight they need to see how each student is doing and spend more of their time teaching.
Higher Education Courseware brings these platforms, content, and learning tools together for students and instructors in the US and around the world.
About the Role
Higher Education Product Program Management is the engine for organizational velocity. We turn collaboration into fast decisions, keep every program on one plan and one set of OKRs, and own the delivery story our leaders hear.
As Lead Specialist, you own a product program and the outcomes it commits to. You drive the program end to end: the roadmap, the dependencies, the risks, what is realistic by when, and what it will take to get there. You own the program plan across Product, Engineering, UX, Content, and Go-to-Market, and the prioritization tradeoffs with your Product and Engineering partners that shape it.
This is a senior individual contributor role. You understand how your programs fit into the broader Higher Education portfolio and strategy. You see dependencies before they collide, you stay hands on in delivery, and you are measured on the outcomes you own and how long it takes to reach them. You find the problems, frame them, and lead the resolution.
Cross-functional Program Leadership
- Own the end-to-end program plan across product, engineering, UX, content, and go-to-market, and the OKRs it delivers each quarter.
- Own prioritization tradeoffs with Product and Engineering leads.
- Drive delivery schedules and launch readiness across multiple teams, including globally-distributed teams, and anticipate bottlenecks before they reach the critical path.
- Surface dependency risk early, before it blocks another team, and escalate with a recommendation attached.
- Build strong working relationships with Engineering, Product, UX, Content, Finance, and go-to-market partners across US and international teams.
Strong Program Standards & Enablement
- Write and maintain the program charter: scope, milestones, success criteria, and the metrics that show whether it worked.
- Keep the program's documentation current so pages, plans, and links reflect the actual state of the program.
- Track open action items, decisions, and commitments across your program and drive follow-through.
- Run your program's planning cadence, quarterly reviews and annual planning, with pre-reads before any meeting that carries a decision.
- Drive clear decisions and communication.
- Adopt and advance program standards for roadmap governance, communication templates, and status reporting, and collaborate closely with peers on dependencies.
Leverage Tooling Effectively
- Keep status current in Jira and Jira Product Discovery (JPD) and drive data quality.
- Maintain the plan, program transparency, and ensure JPD and Jira reflect the real plan: priorities, dependencies, and cut lines.
- Use delivery data such as cycle time, throughput, and OKR health to frame status and decisions.
- Find ways to use AI-assisted tools to reduce program overhead and improve the delivery insight available to the team.
What You'll Bring
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of program or technical program management experience in a technology, product, or software organization, including 5+ years leading complex, multi-team programs from planning through launch.
- Technical understanding and strong engineering collaboration. You know how software is planned, built, and released well enough to work with engineering leads on scope, sequencing, and risk, and engineers see you as part of the team.
- Experience owning program roadmaps, delivery schedules, and cross-team dependencies across multiple product and engineering teams, including distributed teams in different time zones.
- A record of working in ambiguous, fast-moving environments and building a plan where none existed.
- Ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority, manage escalations, and hold a recommendation under pressure.
- Comfort using delivery data to define success criteria, run status, and drive decisions.
- Strong written communication and facilitation. Your pre-reads and updates get read, and your meetings end in decisions.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience. A technical background is helpful but not required.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and Jira Product Discovery or a similar roadmapping tool.
- Experience in higher education, courseware, or another product-led organization where program management works closely with Product and Engineering.
- Experience with AI-assisted program management tools.
- Program Management or Agile certifications.
What Success Looks Like
In the first 90 days
- You can describe your program end to end, including its dependencies and what is at risk.
- You own at least one active workstream and are driving it with minimal direction.
- You have identified at least one place where current practice falls short and have started working on a better standard.
At 6 months
- Your program is shipping on time with no surprises for leadership. When something goes wrong, you raise it early with a mitigation already in hand.
- Your OKRs and cycle time are visible, current, and improving.
- Other program managers come to you when they are stuck, and at least one practice you introduced is in use beyond your own program.
How We Work
Four principles define Higher Education Product Program Management:
- The engine for org velocity. Collaboration meets rapid decision making. Processes are efficient and make sense.
- A catalyst for how we work. A team that drives ownership and accountability.
- Optimized for visibility. See the big picture across Pearson and tell one Higher Ed story.
- Anchored in outcomes and delivery. Broad portfolio understanding, with hands-on involvement in delivery.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The minimum full-time salary range is between $140,000 - $150,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 9th November. This window may be extended depending on business needs.
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.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Job: Product Management
Job Family: PRODUCT
Organization: Higher Education
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type:
Req ID: 26481
LI-REMOTE
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Match your credentials to EB-2 requirements early
A Product Management Lead role typically requires a bachelor's degree plus five or more years of progressive experience. If your foreign degree is a three-year credential, get a credential evaluation now so your PERM application reflects EB-2-eligible standing.
Target employers with PERM filing history
Not all tech or fintech companies sponsor green cards for product leads. Prioritize mid-to-large employers with an established immigration program, since PERM requires documented recruitment, legal resources, and multi-year commitment before your I-140 is even filed.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter Product Management Lead openings by employers who have sponsored EB-2 or EB-3 green cards, so you spend your time on roles where sponsorship is already part of the hiring conversation.
Negotiate sponsorship intent before signing
Ask hiring managers whether the role is budgeted for PERM before you accept. Some employers sponsor H-1B visa transfers but draw the line at green card filing costs. Confirming this at the offer stage prevents a two-year delay mid-process.
Understand how DOL prevailing wage affects your offer
Your employer must pay at least the DOL prevailing wage for your location and job zone throughout the PERM process. Check the OFLC Wage Search for Product Management Lead rates in your metro area before evaluating any offer.
Document your specialized skills before PERM begins
PERM job descriptions must reflect duties a qualified U.S. worker could realistically perform, but your actual experience needs to satisfy EB-2 standards. Gather performance reviews, promotion records, and any patent or product launch documentation now to support your I-140 filing.
Green Card Product Management Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Product Management Lead role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Both categories are possible, depending on how the employer defines the position's minimum requirements. If the job requires a master's degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience, EB-2 is typically the right category. If the employer sets a bachelor's degree as the minimum, EB-3 professional applies. The distinction affects priority dates and wait times, particularly for applicants from India or China.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
An H-1B is a temporary nonimmigrant visa with a six-year maximum and an annual lottery. PERM-based green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 is permanent, has no annual cap at the petition level, and is not subject to a lottery. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status can take two to five years before you receive a green card, compared to H-1B approval in a few months.
How do I find Product Management Lead jobs where employers are already open to green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lets you search Product Management Lead roles specifically filtered by employers with documented green card sponsorship history, so you're not discovering a company's policy limitations after three rounds of interviews. Targeting employers who have completed PERM filings in similar roles significantly shortens the path from offer to petition.
What role does the PERM process play in a Product Management Lead application?
PERM is the DOL labor certification step that precedes the I-140 immigrant petition. Your employer must conduct a federally prescribed recruitment campaign and demonstrate that no qualified U.S. worker was available for the role. For product leadership positions, the job description filed with DOL must match your actual duties and minimum requirements precisely, since audits are common in management-level PERM cases.
Can I change employers after my green card process starts?
Once your I-140 is approved and you've had an approved priority date for 180 days or more, portability rules allow you to move to a similar role at a new employer without losing your priority date. For Product Management Lead, the new role must be in the same or a substantially similar occupational classification. Consult an immigration attorney before accepting any competing offer mid-process.