WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own discovery: get close to enterprise customers — buyers, administrators, learners, and IT — and to the market, and turn what you find into problems worth betting on.
• Frame every bet as a set of testable hypotheses, then define the smallest experience that answers the riskiest question first.
• Design and run validation with the design engineer and product engineer: interviews, concept tests, prototypes, and pilots with real clients.
• Make kill, pivot, or persevere calls on evidence rather than sentiment - and write the narrative clearly either way.
• Navigate the Pearson portfolio: identify which existing Pearson products a concept should build on, and create the internal partnerships to make it real.
• Treat integration as a product requirement from day one. Enterprise products live or die by how they fit into client ecosystems, and you'll own that fit alongside the engineers.
• Build the business case and tell the story — to clients, to ELS leadership, and to the partner teams whose support each bet needs.
• Do whatever the bet needs: write the interview guide, build the model, draft the one-pager, or prototype a concept yourself with AI tools when that's the fastest path to learning.

WHAT YOU'LL BRING

• Senior product management experience with a demonstrated zero-to-one track record: products or major bets you took from concept through validation to launch — including some you killed. We'll want to hear about those too.
• Enterprise and B2B fluency: you understand multi-stakeholder adoption where the buyer isn't the user, and you've navigated procurement, security review, and change management.
• Strong experimentation instincts: hypothesis design, qualitative and quantitative validation, and honest, evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent communication — crisp writing, compelling narrative, and equal comfort presenting to executives and sketching with engineers.
• The ability to run multiple concurrent workstreams through ambiguity without losing the thread on any of them.
• Enough technical depth to hold a real conversation about APIs, integrations, and system constraints. You don't need to write the code, but you do need to reason about it.

NICE TO HAVE

• Knowledge of the enterprise learning ecosystem: the LMS/LXP/HRIS landscape, skills frameworks, credentialing, and how L&D organizations actually buy.
• Familiarity with learning and integration standards (LTI, SCORM, xAPI; SSO and SCIM) — enough to be credible with client IT teams.
• Formal research training, or deep experience partnering closely with researchers.
• Committee, consortium, or industry working-group experience.

WHO THRIVES ON THIS TEAM

• Flexible. Bets change, priorities shift, and fidelity ranges from napkin sketch to production. You move fluidly between them.
• Not precious. Some of what we build will be thrown away — that's the process working, not failing. You hold your work loosely and your standards tightly.
• Comfortable in parallel. You'll usually carry more than one workstream at a time, and you can context-switch without dropping threads.
• A systems thinker. You can understand complex systems — technical, organizational, or both — and figure out how to work effectively within them.
• A genuine problem-solver. You start from the problem, not from your job title or your favorite solution.
• Good with people. You build trust quickly across teams, disciplines, and levels — inside Pearson and with clients.
• Principled and pragmatic. You follow the rules that matter — ethics, privacy, security, and accessibility are non-negotiable — and you know how to flex in and out of heavyweight structures when a small, fast-moving team calls for it.
• A clear communicator. You make your thinking legible in writing, diagrams, demos, and rooms full of executives or engineers.
• Ego-free about execution. Everyone on this team is willing to write ALL the code or NONE of the code, depending on what the bet needs.
• Comfortable in discomfort. Ambiguity, unfamiliar domains, and half-formed ideas are the raw material of this job.
• An independent thinker. You form your own view, argue for it well, and update it quickly when the evidence says you should.

Location & Work Set Up

This is a full-time hybrid role based in the UK, with regular collaboration from our London office.

Your Rewards & Benefits

We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programs meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families, too.

Please see our attractive UK benefits here: Home - Pearson Benefits [https://pearsonbenefitsuk.com/]