Principal, Product Management

Location: London (Hybrid)

This role aligns to external market titles such as Principal Product Manager.

Help Shape the Future of Product Development at Pearson

At Pearson, we're transforming how digital products are built at scale. At the centre of this transformation is Nebula - Pearson's enterprise design system and platform for creating consistent, accessible, AI-ready experiences across our global product portfolio.

Nebula brings together reusable components, design standards, tooling, governance, and shared capabilities that enable product teams to build faster, reduce duplication, and deliver higher-quality experiences.

We're looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead Nebula's product strategy, adoption, and business impact. Partnering closely with the Director of Design Systems, you'll ensure we invest in the right capabilities, solve the right problems, and drive measurable value across Pearson.

This is a highly influential role for a product leader who thrives at the intersection of platform strategy, product management, design systems, and enterprise transformation.

What You'll Be Responsible For

Product Strategy & Roadmap

You'll define and evolve the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Nebula as a strategic enterprise platform.

You will:

• Co-own Nebula's multi-year roadmap and investment strategy
• Identify and prioritise the highest-value opportunities across Pearson
• Balance enterprise standardisation with product team needs
• Define success measures, business outcomes, and investment priorities
• Connect platform investments to adoption, efficiency, and business value

Driving Adoption at Scale

You will treat adoption as a product challenge, creating experiences that make Nebula the platform of choice for Pearson teams.

You will:

• Develop enterprise adoption and onboarding strategies
• Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders across business units
• Identify and remove barriers to adoption and migration
• Define scalable onboarding and migration approaches
• Turn customer feedback into roadmap priorities

Measuring Business Impact

A key part of your role will be proving and increasing the value Nebula delivers.

You will:

• Establish adoption, usage, and value metrics
• Define telemetry and success measures across products and teams
• Build dashboards and executive reporting
• Measure outcomes such as reuse, accessibility improvements, migration velocity, and development efficiency
• Use data to inform investment decisions and prioritisation

Customer Discovery & Insight

You'll build deep understanding of the teams that consume Nebula, ensuring decisions are driven by evidence and user needs.

You will:

• Lead continuous discovery with product, design, and engineering teams
• Identify opportunities for shared enterprise solutions
• Validate new platform capabilities before significant investment
• Balance standardisation with flexibility where required
• Translate customer insights into product decisions

Product Operations & Governance

You'll establish the product management discipline required to run Nebula as a world-class enterprise platform.

You will:

• Own prioritisation and outcome-based backlog management
• Create clear frameworks for platform investments, migrations, contributions, and exceptions
• Partner with Design, Engineering, and Programme leaders on planning and delivery
• Ensure investments align to capacity, strategy, and measurable outcomes
• Maintain clear traceability from customer need to delivered value

What You'll Bring

Essential Experience

• Significant experience in Product Management, operating at Principal, Lead, Group, or equivalent level
• Proven success leading platform, enterprise, or internal products
• Strong product strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation expertise
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders across Product, Design, Engineering, and Executive leadership
• A track record of driving adoption and measurable business outcomes
• Deep customer discovery and data-driven decision-making skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Design Systems, Developer Platforms, or Enterprise Platforms
• Knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design practices
• Experience working with AI-enabled products and workflows
• Exposure to large-scale change or transformation programmes
• Experience operating within complex, matrixed organisations

Why Join Pearson?

This is a unique opportunity to shape how teams across Pearson design and build products. You'll play a critical role in scaling a strategic platform that accelerates delivery, improves quality, promotes accessibility, and enables the future of AI-powered product development.

If you're passionate about platform products, enterprise impact, and creating leverage at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

Join us and help build the platform powering the next generation of learning experiences at Pearson.