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Responsibilities:

• Support PALS product managers with customer forums, focus groups, surveys, and interviews, as needed. Support documentation to inform future additions to roadmaps.

• Assist with creating and managing detailed product roadmaps and schedules for assigned products.

• Collaborate across functional groups to ensure that the specific goals of the products are well understood and executed on, and any known gaps are clearly documented and communicated.

• Ensure product engineering teams are clear on development priority.

• Define and document technical requirements in collaboration with the engineering teams.

• Ensure customer feedback is continuously infused into development activities by conducting customer interviews.

• Sign off on all technical requirements.

• Ensure all defects are resolved prior to release.

• Participate in all sprint planning, story pointing, demo and sprint retrospective meetings.

• Assist in the development of presentations, reports, and other product materials.

• Identify issues, manage escalations, follow through on long-term resolutions.

• Work with product teams to create and update client-facing ancillary materials, including training manuals and user guides.

• Support Pearson School Assessment implementation teams as needed.

• Maintain product documentation for team members outside of the Assessment Product organization.

• Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills & Experience:

• A bachelor’s degree

• 5+ years product, project or program management

• Excellent verbal and oral communication skills

• Strong leadership skills and attention to detail

• Ability and desire to work as part of a globally distributed and virtual teams

• Ability to solve problems creatively

• Develops working understanding of functional group processes and development timelines

• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively

Skills & Experience Preferred:

• 3+ years developing K-12 academic assessment products

• Experience managing large assessment technology platforms

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 Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. All 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 strive for a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.

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Job: PROJECT/PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Remote

Req ID: 19000

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