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Remote product management lead jobs are open across software, fintech, healthcare technology, and e-commerce at remote-first companies and distributed teams hiring experienced product leaders. Employers hiring remotely right now include Jack Henry & Associates, Blue Shield of California, and LinkedIn. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Lead, Product Management
Description: This role aligns to industry level titles such as Director of Product Management.
Location: Hybrid (Hoboken, US | Raleigh, US)
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.
About the Role
We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard customer 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.
We are hiring an experienced product leader to run a portfolio of product areas within our Content Authoring Platform, with deep expertise at the intersection of product management and service design. You will manage 2-3 PMs while staying personally hands-on in the most demanding work – particularly where the platform meets the complex, multi-actor content workflows used across Pearson's business units. We are looking for someone who has done this work in earnest, not just sponsored it.
Who you are
You are a curious, principled product leader equally at home mapping a 12-step content workflow on a wall or writing a sharp PRD with a technical architect. You think in terms of your user problems and goals they have, design measurement before you build, and have a clear view of where AI is the answer and where it is not. You break complex problems down, coach senior PMs without alienating them, and care about education.
What you'll work on
Hands-on product leadership
- Develop product and capability strategy for one or more areas, grounded in deep understanding of complex customer journeys spanning content development, content quality, measuring learning outcomes, and the workflows that connect them.
- Lead the hardest product work in your portfolio personally, role modelling, coaching and elevating others in your organisation – run discovery, write the PRDs and specs, make the build vs. buy vs. partner calls.
- Define value propositions traceable to user jobs and business outcomes; plan leading and lagging measurement up front; hold yourself and the team to outcomes – author productivity, content quality, cycle time, downstream learner impact.
Service design and discovery
- Lead service design to map and re-imagine end-to-end content workflows across multiple actors – authors, editors, reviewers, content producers, sales teams, government, learners – and the systems behind them.
- Drive customer centricity in the organisation – shared service blueprints, journey maps, and operating models that engineering, design, and others can act on.
- Run workshops and co-design sessions with content teams; drive continuous discovery using both generative and evaluative methods, with direct engagement of authors, producers, and downstream consumers of platform capabilities.
Player-coach leadership
- Manage and develop 2-3 product managers – set clear expectations; coach on discovery, strategy, and technical abilities; support their growth and leadership development.
- Model the discovery, outcome thinking, collaborative practice, and problem solving we expect across the platform team.
- Contribute to capability building across the wider authoring team – this is a platform group that needs to raise its own bar over time.
AI, technology and stakeholders
- Engage credibly with engineering on architecture, API, and integration decisions, bringing rigorous user focus and a peer-level relationship with your engineering leaders.
- Lead practical evaluation and adoption of AI capabilities for content workflows – AI-assisted authoring, quality assurance, accessibility, reuse – focused on users, trust, and integrated workflows.
- Build trust-based relationships with content authoring leaders, editorial leadership, and operations partners; influence without direct authority, surface risks early, and tell a clear story.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of product management experience, including PM leadership experience.
- Demonstrated depth in service design for complex, multi-actor workflows – done hands-on, not just sponsored.
- Track record running structured continuous discovery (generative and evaluative) and translating insight into outcomes.
- Experience with platform or B2B2C products serving multiple user types; strong technical acumen and comfortable with build vs. buy decisions.
- Data fluency – instrumentation, leading and lagging metrics, data-led decisions.
- Hands-on experience with current AI tools in product work, with a clear view of where AI is and is not the right tool.
- Experience in empowered product team models (SVPG-style or similar); coaches senior PMs and tells a clear product story.
Bonus experience
- Content management, publishing, authoring tools, editorial systems, or related workflow-heavy domains.
- Education technology, media, or content-intensive industries.
- Formal training or practitioner experience in service design – journey mapping, blueprinting, jobs-to-be-done at workflow level.
- Leading platform rationalisation or system consolidation programmes.
What success looks like
In the first 6 months:
- Clear picture of the portfolio you own, the people on it, and the strengths and gaps in the team.
- Direct understanding of key users, priority workflows – and strong relationships with the authors, editors, operators, stakeholders, and customers.
- A coherent set of outcome-based priorities for your portfolio, grounded in a shared service-level view agreed with engineering, design, and BU leadership.
In the first 18 months:
- Measurable improvement in priority workflow outcomes – cycle time, quality, reuse, accessibility, author productivity.
- Your PMs visibly developing – stronger discovery, clearer outcome ownership, sharper strategic thinking.
- A shared model for how the platform supports BU content workflows, used across multiple BUs; AI capabilities evaluated and, where appropriate, in production.
Why this matters
- Lead at the rare point where product, service design, and platform engineering meet – at scale.
- A platform at an inflection point: legacy consolidation, AI disruption, varied workflows across businesses.
- Direct impact on educational content used by millions of learners.
About Pearson
Pearson is a global learning company committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. As we evolve from a traditional textbook publisher to a digital-first learning company, we are investing in the platforms, products, and people that will power the next generation of learning experiences. Our digital products represent the majority of our revenue, and the way we build them is changing rapidly.
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 $200,000 - $250,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 3rd July. 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: Direct to Consumer
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type:
Req ID: 24764
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Lead, Product Management
Description: This role aligns to industry level titles such as Director of Product Management.
Location: Hybrid (Hoboken, US | Raleigh, US)
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.
About the Role
We embrace an SVPG-inspired Product Operating Model, empowering our product teams to solve hard customer 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.
We are hiring an experienced product leader to run a portfolio of product areas within our Content Authoring Platform, with deep expertise at the intersection of product management and service design. You will manage 2-3 PMs while staying personally hands-on in the most demanding work – particularly where the platform meets the complex, multi-actor content workflows used across Pearson's business units. We are looking for someone who has done this work in earnest, not just sponsored it.
Who you are
You are a curious, principled product leader equally at home mapping a 12-step content workflow on a wall or writing a sharp PRD with a technical architect. You think in terms of your user problems and goals they have, design measurement before you build, and have a clear view of where AI is the answer and where it is not. You break complex problems down, coach senior PMs without alienating them, and care about education.
What you'll work on
Hands-on product leadership
- Develop product and capability strategy for one or more areas, grounded in deep understanding of complex customer journeys spanning content development, content quality, measuring learning outcomes, and the workflows that connect them.
- Lead the hardest product work in your portfolio personally, role modelling, coaching and elevating others in your organisation – run discovery, write the PRDs and specs, make the build vs. buy vs. partner calls.
- Define value propositions traceable to user jobs and business outcomes; plan leading and lagging measurement up front; hold yourself and the team to outcomes – author productivity, content quality, cycle time, downstream learner impact.
Service design and discovery
- Lead service design to map and re-imagine end-to-end content workflows across multiple actors – authors, editors, reviewers, content producers, sales teams, government, learners – and the systems behind them.
- Drive customer centricity in the organisation – shared service blueprints, journey maps, and operating models that engineering, design, and others can act on.
- Run workshops and co-design sessions with content teams; drive continuous discovery using both generative and evaluative methods, with direct engagement of authors, producers, and downstream consumers of platform capabilities.
Player-coach leadership
- Manage and develop 2-3 product managers – set clear expectations; coach on discovery, strategy, and technical abilities; support their growth and leadership development.
- Model the discovery, outcome thinking, collaborative practice, and problem solving we expect across the platform team.
- Contribute to capability building across the wider authoring team – this is a platform group that needs to raise its own bar over time.
AI, technology and stakeholders
- Engage credibly with engineering on architecture, API, and integration decisions, bringing rigorous user focus and a peer-level relationship with your engineering leaders.
- Lead practical evaluation and adoption of AI capabilities for content workflows – AI-assisted authoring, quality assurance, accessibility, reuse – focused on users, trust, and integrated workflows.
- Build trust-based relationships with content authoring leaders, editorial leadership, and operations partners; influence without direct authority, surface risks early, and tell a clear story.
What we're looking for
- 10+ years of product management experience, including PM leadership experience.
- Demonstrated depth in service design for complex, multi-actor workflows – done hands-on, not just sponsored.
- Track record running structured continuous discovery (generative and evaluative) and translating insight into outcomes.
- Experience with platform or B2B2C products serving multiple user types; strong technical acumen and comfortable with build vs. buy decisions.
- Data fluency – instrumentation, leading and lagging metrics, data-led decisions.
- Hands-on experience with current AI tools in product work, with a clear view of where AI is and is not the right tool.
- Experience in empowered product team models (SVPG-style or similar); coaches senior PMs and tells a clear product story.
Bonus experience
- Content management, publishing, authoring tools, editorial systems, or related workflow-heavy domains.
- Education technology, media, or content-intensive industries.
- Formal training or practitioner experience in service design – journey mapping, blueprinting, jobs-to-be-done at workflow level.
- Leading platform rationalisation or system consolidation programmes.
What success looks like
In the first 6 months:
- Clear picture of the portfolio you own, the people on it, and the strengths and gaps in the team.
- Direct understanding of key users, priority workflows – and strong relationships with the authors, editors, operators, stakeholders, and customers.
- A coherent set of outcome-based priorities for your portfolio, grounded in a shared service-level view agreed with engineering, design, and BU leadership.
In the first 18 months:
- Measurable improvement in priority workflow outcomes – cycle time, quality, reuse, accessibility, author productivity.
- Your PMs visibly developing – stronger discovery, clearer outcome ownership, sharper strategic thinking.
- A shared model for how the platform supports BU content workflows, used across multiple BUs; AI capabilities evaluated and, where appropriate, in production.
Why this matters
- Lead at the rare point where product, service design, and platform engineering meet – at scale.
- A platform at an inflection point: legacy consolidation, AI disruption, varied workflows across businesses.
- Direct impact on educational content used by millions of learners.
About Pearson
Pearson is a global learning company committed to helping people make progress in their lives through learning. As we evolve from a traditional textbook publisher to a digital-first learning company, we are investing in the platforms, products, and people that will power the next generation of learning experiences. Our digital products represent the majority of our revenue, and the way we build them is changing rapidly.
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 $200,000 - $250,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 3rd July. 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: Direct to Consumer
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Workplace Type:
Req ID: 24764
LI-REMOTE
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Who's Hiring
- Jack Henry & Associates6
- Blue Shield of California4
- LinkedIn3
- PM Pediatrics Management2
- Optum1
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software16
- Healthcare & Medical Services4
- Banking & Financial Services3
- Consulting & Professional Services3
- Manufacturing2
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote product management lead jobs.
- 5 or more years of product management experience with at least one in a lead or senior role
- Demonstrated ability to define and ship product roadmaps end-to-end across engineering and design teams
- Proficiency with product analytics tools such as Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar platforms
- Experience writing detailed product requirements documents and managing agile sprint cycles
- Strong cross-functional stakeholder management skills across engineering, sales, and executive leadership
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, business, or design field, or equivalent hands-on industry experience
Tips for Your Remote Product Management Lead Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote product management lead openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through listings mixed with on-site positions.
Show async communication skills upfront
Remote product management leads spend more time writing than talking. Use your cover letter and application materials to demonstrate clear written thinking, because distributed hiring managers treat your written communication as a direct preview of how you'll run product reviews and stakeholder updates.
Build a portfolio of shipped remote work
Document products or features you have shipped, the decisions behind them, and the outcomes. Remote employers look for candidates who can show results independently, and a product portfolio with context on how you worked across distributed teams is more persuasive than a title alone.
Highlight cross-functional remote coordination
Call out your experience running product rituals, like sprint reviews, roadmap sessions, and design critiques, using tools such as Jira, Confluence, Figma, or Notion. Naming the async and synchronous workflows you have managed signals that you can lead a distributed team from day one.
Prepare a remote-work answer for interviews
Remote product management lead interviews almost always include a question about how you manage ambiguity and keep distributed stakeholders aligned. Have a specific example ready that covers how you structured communication, resolved a disagreement in writing, and kept a product on track without face-to-face access.
Remote Product Management Lead Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote product management lead job?
Remote product management lead roles go to candidates who can demonstrate ownership and execution without in-person oversight. Distributed teams screen hard for written communication, because async updates and product specs replace hallway conversations. Showing a portfolio of shipped products, clear documentation habits, and experience coordinating cross-functional remote teams gives you a real edge over candidates who have only worked in-office environments.
Which companies hire remote product management leads?
Companies hiring remote product management leads right now include Jack Henry & Associates, Blue Shield of California, and LinkedIn, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. Remote-first software companies, distributed SaaS platforms, and digital health organizations make up the largest share of these openings.
Can you get a remote product management lead job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level product management lead roles are harder to land because distributed teams expect you to operate independently from day one. Companies that hire early-career remote product managers tend to be smaller startups with structured onboarding. Building a public product case study, contributing to an open-source product project, or completing a product management certification can open doors when direct experience is thin.
Do you need a degree for remote product management lead jobs?
Not always. Remote employers hiring product management leads weigh demonstrated product outcomes, a history of shipping features, and the ability to write clearly about strategy and tradeoffs. A degree in business, computer science, or a related field helps, but a strong portfolio of product work and measurable results often carries more weight than formal credentials in distributed hiring decisions.
Which industries hire the most remote product management leads?
Most remote product management lead openings sit in Technology & Software, Healthcare & Medical Services, and Banking & Financial Services, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of June 2026. These sectors rely on distributed product teams to move quickly across time zones without being tied to a central office.
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