.Purpose: The Director, Institutional Product Management: Adult Development, reports to the Vice President of Product Management, Institutions.
The Director leads a team of product managers, learning strategy managers, and product associates to assess market and customer needs, create a product strategy, define the roadmap for the product(s), monitor its development and delivery, and communicate with internal and external stakeholders.This Director and team will focus specifically on building an Adult learner strategy around simplifying the portfolio and building a digital-first agile portfolio that can easily respond to market needs.The Director will also be responsible for continuing current professional development practices while developing and implementing a Professional Development plan to more closely align with products provided to institutional clients.
The team works closely with Digital Product Management, Content Production, Assessment Production, User Experience, and Efficacy to ensure the customer and market need for Pearson's K12 Institutional products are carried through into software development.
The Director is expected to be an expert in Agile Software Development practices and will be part of the implementation of those practices within the Product Management team.
They must also provide mentorship for internal stakeholders who are maturing in their knowledge of agile practices.
The Director will lead their team through the digitization of courseware to promote and ensure a solution selling value proposition for customers.Responsibilities:Define and execute the new ELL portfolio strategy of solution selling, designing user journeys from first touch through the end of the learning experience; including assessing, teaching, and re-teaching in a digital-first, but hybrid solution,supporting both the learners and those that support the learners (teachers, admin, etc.
).Design the professional development portfolio that will guide all support roles in implementing new and revised courses to include both pedagogy and platform training.Drive efficiencies of scale and revenue by simplifying the product and platform portfolio to promote an agile portfolio able to respond quickly to customer requests for features and capabilities guided by overall market data.Develop and continually refine product vision and roadmaps based on strategy and investment priorities, focusing on adult learners and professional development.Leverage Pearson's market research, competitive intelligence,and user experience research capabilities to reflect the voice of the customer in all product roadmaps.Ensure all stakeholder voices are heard and clear priorities are set for development teams.Clearly communicate product plans and business cases to the team and stakeholders, articulating both the product's value proposition as well as defining and measuring metrics for its success#J-18808-Ljbffr
