Green Card Product Management Lead Jobs
Product Management Lead roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through the PERM labor certification process, which permanently ties your residency to a qualifying offer rather than a temporary visa. Employers must document recruitment efforts before filing, making early employer alignment on sponsorship timelines essential for this role.
Find Green Card Product Management Lead JobsOverview
Showing 5 of 168+ Product Management Lead jobs
See all 168+ Product Management Lead Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Product Management Lead roles.
Get Access To All JobsLead, Product Management
Location: US - Remote
Descriptor: This role aligns to industry level titles such as Director of Product Management.
About Pearson
At Pearson, we are committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. We create innovative and accessible educational products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Director to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge educational products.
About the Job
We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Product companies depend on strong products, and strong products come from strong product teams. And we recognise that product teams are only as strong as their product managers.
Success in this role requires marrying strong product management practices with deep understanding of the certification and workforce readiness ecosystem, including how skills validation, credentials, and assessment solutions create value for learners, educators, employers, and industry partners.
Position Overview
We're seeking an innovative and experienced Lead, Product Manager, to lead a high-performing empowered product team responsible for delivering customer and business outcomes. This role is responsible for driving the customer product discovery and strategy of Pearson's Certiport portfolio, coach and develop product managers and continuously deliver to our learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with product management acumen, product delivery excellence, and a coaching mindset to accelerate business value.
The successful candidate is responsible for the value and viability risks and is overall accountable for the Certiport Product outcomes. Ideal candidate combines strong product sense and management leadership with a deep understanding of certification, credentialing, assessment, workforce development, and education markets to identify opportunities that drive learner outcomes, customer value, and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision
- Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define and evolve product vision, strategy, and priorities.
- Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps.
- Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment.
- Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities.
- Champion customer-centric decision making throughout the organization.
Product Discovery & Innovation
- Establish strong product discovery practices across teams.
- Ensure teams continuously validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights.
- Promote evidence-based decision making over opinion-based prioritization.
- Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and rapid iteration.
- Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers.
- Create clear expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent.
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews.
- Recruit and retain exceptional product management talent.
- Coaches Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers.
- Creates empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Program to ensure product teams maintain strong product-engineering-design collaboration.
- Facilitate alignment across stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success leaders) while protecting team focus and autonomy.
- Influence executive and cross-functional decisions through strong communication and product judgment.
- Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to drive strategic outcomes.
- Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes effectively across executive, business, and technical audiences, building alignment and advocacy for strong product management practices.
Product Delivery & Outcomes
- Ensure teams are focused on delivering measurable outcomes rather than feature output.
- Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics.
- Remove organizational obstacles that limit team effectiveness.
- Establish operating mechanisms that improve speed, quality, and learning.
- Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams.
- 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent.
- Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results.
- Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning.
- Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments.
- Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation.
- Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products.
- Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development.
- Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges.
- Preferred experience in one or more of the following:
- Professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs
- Education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products
- K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets
- Developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors
- Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends
What You'll Love About This Role
You’ll lead and empower a team of Product Managers responsible for creating learning and certification experiences that help millions of learners realize the life they imagine through learning. Your team will build products that enable educators to prepare students with in-demand, industry-recognized credentials, equipping them with the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed to succeed in higher education, launch meaningful careers, and thrive in an evolving workforce. You’ll create an environment where empowered product teams solve important customer problems, deliver measurable business outcomes, and shape the future of workforce readiness around the globe.
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 $190,000 - $220,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 18th September. 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: Assessment & Qualifications
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 25672
LI-REMOTE
Lead, Product Management
Location: US - Remote
Descriptor: This role aligns to industry level titles such as Director of Product Management.
About Pearson
At Pearson, we are committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. We create innovative and accessible educational products and services that foster personal and professional growth. We are looking for a passionate and skilled Product Director to join our team and drive the development of cutting-edge educational products.
About the Job
We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard problems – customer problems and business problems – in ways that our customers love, yet work for our business. Product companies depend on strong products, and strong products come from strong product teams. And we recognise that product teams are only as strong as their product managers.
Success in this role requires marrying strong product management practices with deep understanding of the certification and workforce readiness ecosystem, including how skills validation, credentials, and assessment solutions create value for learners, educators, employers, and industry partners.
Position Overview
We're seeking an innovative and experienced Lead, Product Manager, to lead a high-performing empowered product team responsible for delivering customer and business outcomes. This role is responsible for driving the customer product discovery and strategy of Pearson's Certiport portfolio, coach and develop product managers and continuously deliver to our learners, educators, academic institutions, workforce organizations, and technology industry partners through certification, assessment, and workforce readiness solutions. This role combines deep technical expertise with product management acumen, product delivery excellence, and a coaching mindset to accelerate business value.
The successful candidate is responsible for the value and viability risks and is overall accountable for the Certiport Product outcomes. Ideal candidate combines strong product sense and management leadership with a deep understanding of certification, credentialing, assessment, workforce development, and education markets to identify opportunities that drive learner outcomes, customer value, and business growth.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Vision
- Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to define and evolve product vision, strategy, and priorities.
- Translate company objectives into coherent product initiatives and outcome-based roadmaps.
- Drive portfolio-level prioritization based on customer value, business impact, and strategic alignment.
- Ensure product investments align with organizational goals and market opportunities.
- Champion customer-centric decision making throughout the organization.
Product Discovery & Innovation
- Establish strong product discovery practices across teams.
- Ensure teams continuously validate assumptions through customer research, experimentation, and data insights.
- Promote evidence-based decision making over opinion-based prioritization.
- Foster a culture of innovation, learning, and rapid iteration.
- Guide teams in identifying and solving high-value customer problems.
Team Leadership & Development
- Lead, mentor, and develop Product Managers.
- Create clear expectations, career paths, and growth opportunities for product talent.
- Build a culture of accountability, ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Conduct performance management, succession planning, and talent reviews.
- Recruit and retain exceptional product management talent.
- Coaches Product Managers to become skilled problem solvers.
- Creates empowered teams capable of making informed product decisions.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Program to ensure product teams maintain strong product-engineering-design collaboration.
- Facilitate alignment across stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Customer Success leaders) while protecting team focus and autonomy.
- Influence executive and cross-functional decisions through strong communication and product judgment.
- Navigate ambiguity and competing priorities to drive strategic outcomes.
- Communicate product vision, strategy, priorities, and outcomes effectively across executive, business, and technical audiences, building alignment and advocacy for strong product management practices.
Product Delivery & Outcomes
- Ensure teams are focused on delivering measurable outcomes rather than feature output.
- Monitor portfolio health through customer, business, and product performance metrics.
- Remove organizational obstacles that limit team effectiveness.
- Establish operating mechanisms that improve speed, quality, and learning.
- Balance short-term business needs with long-term product strategy.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years product management experience, including leadership of multiple product teams.
- 5+ years leading Product Managers and developing product talent.
- Proven experience defining product strategy and delivering measurable business results.
- Strong understanding of modern product management practices, including discovery, experimentation, and outcome-based planning.
- Experience partnering with engineering and design leaders in an empowered product model.
- Demonstrated success influencing senior executives, communicating across business and technical stakeholders, and driving organizational alignment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading complex product portfolios across multiple customer segments.
- Background scaling product organizations through periods of growth or transformation.
- Experience in SaaS, platform, digital, AI, data, or technology-enabled products.
- Domain expertise in learning technologies and educational product development.
- Strong analytical capabilities and systems thinking approach to complex technical challenges.
- Preferred experience in one or more of the following:
- Professional certification, credentialing, or assessment programs
- Education technology, learning solutions, or workforce development products
- K-12, higher education, career readiness, or workforce skills markets
- Developing products that serve educators, learners, employers, or industry certification sponsors
- Knowledge of emerging workforce skills, career pathways, digital credentials, and skills-based hiring trends
What You'll Love About This Role
You’ll lead and empower a team of Product Managers responsible for creating learning and certification experiences that help millions of learners realize the life they imagine through learning. Your team will build products that enable educators to prepare students with in-demand, industry-recognized credentials, equipping them with the skills, confidence, and opportunities needed to succeed in higher education, launch meaningful careers, and thrive in an evolving workforce. You’ll create an environment where empowered product teams solve important customer problems, deliver measurable business outcomes, and shape the future of workforce readiness around the globe.
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 $190,000 - $220,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 18th September. 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: Assessment & Qualifications
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Req ID: 25672
LI-REMOTE
See all 168+ Green Card Product Management Lead Jobs
Sign up for free to unlock all listings, filter by visa type, and get alerts for new Green Card Product Management Lead Jobs.
Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Product Management Lead
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.