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 will 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.
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world’s lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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