Pearson Senior Product Manager - Analytics in San Francisco, California
Senior Product Manager - Analytics
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.
High Level Responsibilities
Accountable to define and protect the scope of customer facing learning analytics capabilities and features
Accountable for product lifecycle management of learning analytics capabilities and features
Participate in cross-functional team to define product specific learner outcomes and supporting learning analytics
Accountable for innovation within the learning analytics domain
Responsible for managing capability dependencies across other key groups and ensuring learning analytics delivery for product categories.
Accountable for the ongoing identification and progress of innovative technology solutions that significantly advance the customer-value offered by learning analytics.
Responsible for leading a cross functional team (User Experience, Learning Design, Efficacy & Research) in designing solutions to the most important problems identified and prioritized by category management.
Responsible for leading a cross functional team (Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management) in implementing the learning analytics roadmap.
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Qualifications
Competencies:
Has working knowledge of learning analytics overall plan and how it contributes to category plan.
Has working knowledge of specific market opportunity or customer needs and expectations into product tool and component design.
Consults with other stakeholders to assess options and determine the most efficient and cost-effective approach to building learning analytics.
Has working knowledge of innovation within product capability across categories.
Understands from design team efficacy requirements and understands how to embed efficacy capabilities into functional product tools and components.
Is a member of cross-functional product teams with moderate guidance
Provides input to the team on translating customer and technical requirements into well-engineered, tested and deployed product capabilities.
Interfaces, with moderate guidance, with stakeholders to determine feasibility for functional capabilities to meet customer expectations and needs.
Has working knowledge on how to build and develop product capabilities with the customer experience in mind, based on inputs on customer intelligence from other stakeholders.
Part of the team, with moderate guidance, that investigates new approaches for product build based on examining new technology emerging in the learning analytics market.
Able to identify external or internal obstacles to learning analytics products delivery or profitability and monitors to ensure that product teams work within parameters of budget.
KPIs:
Clear vision and direction for learning analytics capabilities and features
Actionable learning analytics product requirements
Positive collaboration across partner product teams
Data driven feature prioritization through learner engagement
Fiscal responsibility in learning analytics feature development
Expected Results:
Actionable learning analytics product requirements
Learning analytics feature prioritization based on data driven insights
Ongoing iterative learning and development of innovative learning analytics features
Positive impact on instructor and learner outcomes
NOTE: Must be fully authorized to work in the U.S.
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Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Primary Location: US-CO-Centennial
Other Locations US-MA-Boston, US-CA-San Francisco
Work Locations: US-CO-Centennial-2154 East Commons 2154 East Commons Avenue Centennial 80122
Job: Product Management
Organization: Global Product
Employee Status: Regular Employee
Job Type: Standard
Shift: Day Job
Job Posting: Dec 6, 2018
Job Unposting: Ongoing
Schedule: Full-time Regular
Req ID: 1816069
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.