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Advanced Specialist, Product Management
Pearson VUE. Own and prioritise product backlogs aligned with product outcomes, customer needs and delivery commitments .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in product ownership and management, with a strong focus on backlog prioritization, stakeholder engagement, and agile methodologies. Capable of translating complex customer and business needs into actionable product requirements and ensuring high-quality outcomes.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Product OwnershipAgile Product DevelopmentBacklog PrioritizationUser Story CreationStakeholder Engagement
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Hard Skills
Product RequirementsAcceptance CriteriaUser StoriesComplex Feature DeliveryScrumSoftware Development LifecycleAnalytical SkillsProblem-Solving
Soft Skills
CommunicationFacilitationRelationship Management
Tools & Technologies
JiraAgile Delivery Tooling
Industry Keywords
Digital ProductSoftware DeliveryCustomer InsightProduct AdoptionContinuous Improvement
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own and prioritise product backlogs aligned with product outcomes, customer needs and delivery commitments
- Translate customer, operational and business needs into product requirements, epics, features, user stories and acceptance criteria
- Author and maintain market and product requirement documents, product proposals and decision records
- Define and communicate product goals, priorities and roadmap intent, including scope, sequencing, dependencies and trade-offs
- Work with UX and customer-facing teams to understand user journeys, validate needs and incorporate feedback
- Collaborate with Engineers, Architects, Service Owners, Business Analysts, Testers, Scrum Masters and operational stakeholders throughout discovery, refinement, build, testing, release and post-launch review
- Lead backlog refinement and provide timely clarification and decisions
- Review completed work against acceptance criteria and support product acceptance, release readiness and launch decisions
- Use customer insight, operational evidence, product data and stakeholder feedback to assess adoption, value and improvement opportunities
- Identify and resolve product issues, requirement gaps, risks and cross-team dependencies
- Maintain traceability from customer and business needs through requirements, delivery and acceptance
- Champion accessible, secure, sustainable and high-quality product outcomes aligned with Pearson standards and regulatory obligations
- Share product management practices, support junior colleagues and contribute to continuous improvement
- Operate as an Advanced Specialist Product Owner within Pearson’s Assessment & Qualifications Delivery division, owning complex initiatives and high-impact product workstreams
Requirements
What you’ll need- Professional experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or equivalent within digital product or software delivery
- Strong experience owning and prioritising a complex product backlog across competing customer, business and technical needs
- Strong experience producing detailed product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria with a high degree of accuracy and completeness
- Evidence of delivering complex features or projects successfully, with minimal avoidable rework caused by missed or unclear requirements
- Strong applied understanding of agile product development, Scrum and the Software Development Lifecycle
- Experience working effectively with engineering, architecture, UX, testing, service, operations and business stakeholders
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
- Demonstrable experience working directly with external clients, building trusted relationships, managing expectations and translating client needs into clear product requirements and priorities
- Experience using data, research and customer feedback to inform priorities and assess product adoption and value
- Strong experience using Jira or equivalent product and agile delivery tooling
- Occasional out-of-hours support may be required during business-critical delivery periods
Benefits
Comp & perks- Hybrid working model
- Occasional out-of-hours support may be required during business-critical delivery periods