Lead, Product Management, ELL Institutional Courseware

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This role aligns to industry-level titles such as Head of Product, Director of Product Management, Product Portfolio Director, or similar product leadership positions with responsibility for portfolio strategy, commercial performance, and team leadership.

Role Overview

The Lead, Product Management, ELL Institutional Courseware owns Pearson's integral portfolio of English language learning materials for schools, higher education and adult education. The portfolio spans print, blended and digital courseware, supplementary materials, teacher professional development, and partner-created content.

This is an opportunity to shape the future of a major global education portfolio. The role will decide where Pearson invests, grows, localises, simplifies and exits, with accountability for creating products that teachers choose, improve student learning outcomes, and deliver sustainable revenue growth and strong returns.

A central part of the mandate is leading the evolution of a print-heavy portfolio towards connected, digital and AI-enabled learning experiences. Pearson intends to lead this transition while staying grounded in the needs and readiness of teachers and institutions.

The role owns the full product lifecycle, from customer discovery and portfolio strategy through development, launch, performance management and retirement. It owns investment cases for approval by the ELL Leadership Team, recommends pricing and packaging, and drives initiatives to improve revenue and profitability.





The role leads a global team of approximately 15 colleagues through managers and works across Content, Learning Science, Engineering, Assessment, UX and AI. It is a member of the ELL Product Leadership Team and ELL Content Leadership Team, acting as the senior product owner for institutional courseware and aligning Product, Content, Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Finance around a clear portfolio direction.

Key Responsibilities

Set the Portfolio Strategy

- Define and execute the global strategy and roadmap for institutional courseware, based on customer needs, market opportunities, learning outcomes, and commercial performance.
- Manage portfolio investments, prioritisation, localisation, innovation, and product lifecycle decisions.
- Act as the senior product authority, providing strategic recommendations to the ELL Leadership Team.

Understand Customers and Markets

- Build deep understanding of learners, educators, institutions, ministries, and partners across priority markets.
- Use customer insight, market trends, learning evidence, and performance data to drive product and investment decisions.
- Support strategic customer and ministry engagements alongside Sales teams.

Create Market-Winning Courseware

- Translate strategy into compelling value propositions, product roadmaps, and requirements.
- Lead cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact learning solutions that balance customer value, learning effectiveness, quality, speed, and commercial outcomes.
- Validate opportunities through customer research, pilots, and data-driven decision-making. xhfqzwm

Lead the AI and Digital Transition

- Drive the evolution from print-first products to digital, blended, and AI-enabled learning experiences.

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