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Senior Technical Product Manager
Pearson
Chandler, AZ, United States
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Description
At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.
The Position:
As a Sr. Technical Product Manager at Pearson, you’ll be working with a highly-capable team of product leaders, architects, UX designers, engineers and testers focused on building efficacious learning experiences on Pearson’s flagship learning management system, Pearson Realize. Your primary responsibility will be to define, own, prioritize and deliver on a backlog of features that are all ultimately in support of improving teaching and learning.
What you’ll do:
● Collaborate with designers, architects, engineers, and quality assurance to translate high-level business objectives into project charters, stories and acceptance criteria
● Use quantitative and qualitative methods to balance business and technical needs
● Perform acceptance and ad-hoc functional testing of new features
● Effectively manage trade-offs between cost/schedule versus business benefit
● Manage projects, drive delivery, plan/organize work, manage risks, communicate effectively and adapt to inevitable challenges
● Manage and coordinate technical integrations across multiple lines of business
● Coach and mentor junior technical product managers and business analysts
Qualifications
What you’ll need:
● Technical degree and 5+ years in a technical product management role
● 3+ years experience leading small to medium sized teams
● Familiarity with web-based and mobile product development and understanding of typical technology architecture for web and mobile applications
● Experience managing, translating and distilling requirements across multiple products into common capabilities / reusable services
● Strong customer focus, excellent problem solving and analytical skills
● Self-starter, accustomed to working in a changing environment, who takes pride and ownership their products
● Excellent communicator, comfortable having technical discussions with both internal and external developers, as well as discussing high level concepts with customers.
● Proven ability to work with cross functional teams to drive the implementation of new features as well as resolve operational issues
● Strong preference for candidates with experience in K-12 education, emphasizing learning management systems, SCORM and Tin Can
● Ability to facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders