Specialist, Product Management (MTSS) at Pearson

Job description

At Pearson, we’re helping educators identify student needs early, monitor growth, and make informed decisions about support. Within Pearson’s School Assessment organization, the Measurement & Learning team builds assessment experiences that help schools put multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) into practice. We’re seeking a Specialist, Product Manager to lead the strategic expansion of our universal screening and progress monitoring measures and platform capabilities. You’ll own the MTSS product roadmap, guiding what we build, how we bring it to market, and how we help districts use it effectively. This role combines product strategy and delivery with hands-on commercialization, including RFP support, sales and implementation enablement, and training materials. You’ll work with educators and district leaders, as well as partners across Psychometrics, Research, Content, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Professional Learning, and Partner Success. Your goal is to make reliable assessment results easier to collect, understand, and use to support students. This role aligns to industry level titles such as Product Manager, MTSS Assessments or Product Manager, Screening & Progress Monitoring What You’ll Do • Own the MTSS roadmap. Set and communicate roadmap priorities. Connect investments in screening, progress monitoring, reporting, and related workflows into a coherent product direction. • Expand the assessment portfolio. Identify opportunities for new and improved screening and progress monitoring measures. Partner with psychometrics, research, and content teams to define needs, evaluate evidence, and bring measures to market. • Advance platform capabilities. Own priorities for administration, scoring, reporting, goal setting, and progress monitoring workflows. Translate educator needs into clear requirements and guide development through launch. • Understand MTSS decisions. Work directly with teachers, interventionists, school leaders, and district teams to understand how our products can improve their ability to conduct universal screening, identify students for support, monitor response to intervention, and adjust plans. • Set direction and make tradeoffs. Build and communicate a roadmap grounded in customer needs, assessment evidence, market opportunities, and business goals. Define success measures and make clear prioritization decisions. • Lead commercialization. Partner with Sales and Marketing on positioning, launches, demonstrations, and customer-facing materials. Provide product and assessment expertise for RFPs, state submissions, and other strategic opportunities. • Enable customer-facing teams. Create or guide clear product guidance and sales enablement materials. Partner with Professional Learning to ensure external training materials accurately explain assessment workflows, result interpretation, and effective use. • Measure and improve. Use product data, customer feedback, and research to assess adoption, identify gaps, and guide future investment. What You Bring Required • Bachelor's degree • 3+ years of experience with K-12 universal screening, progress monitoring, early literacy or numeracy assessment, or MTSS implementation • 3+ years in product management, product development, or related roles • Experience owning a product roadmap and delivering digital products or significant product capabilities • Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem definition, and solution validation • Ability to translate complex assessment and learning needs into clear product priorities, requirements, and customer-facing explanations • Experience working across technical, research or content, and commercial teams to deliver and launch products • Strong writing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate with educators, district leaders, and internal teams • Comfort using qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate opportunities and results • Initiative, sound judgment, and the ability to drive work to completion amid ambiguity Preferred • Understanding of assessment concepts such as reliability, validity, norms, and appropriate score interpretation • Experience expanding an assessment portfolio or developing assessment administration and reporting capabilities • Experience supporting RFPs, state approval processes, sales enablement, and professional learning • Understanding of district assessment operations, including administration windows, accommodations, rostering, and implementation Why Join Us You’ll shape the MTSS assessment experience across Pearson School Assessment products, from the measures districts can use to the tools that help educators act on results. Your work will help schools spot needs early, monitor whether support is working, and respond in time to help students grow. Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows: The minimum full-time salary range is between $75,000 - $90,000. This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here . Applications will be accepted through Monday, Nov 2, 2026. This window may be extended depending on business needs. #LI-CH2

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Must-haves

This role aligns to industry level titles such as Product Manager, MTSS Assessments or Product Manager, Screening & Progress Monitoring
What You’ll Do
Own the MTSS roadmap. Set and communicate roadmap priorities. Connect investments in screening, progress monitoring, reporting, and related workflows into a coherent product direction.
Measure and improve. Use product data, customer feedback, and research to assess adoption, identify gaps, and guide future investment.
Bachelor's degree
3+ years of experience with K-12 universal screening, progress monitoring, early literacy or numeracy assessment, or MTSS implementation
3+ years in product management, product development, or related roles
Experience owning a product roadmap and delivering digital products or significant product capabilities
Strong product discovery skills, including customer interviews, problem definition, and solution validation
Ability to translate complex assessment and learning needs into clear product priorities, requirements, and customer-facing explanations
Experience working across technical, research or content, and commercial teams to deliver and launch products
Strong writing and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate with educators, district leaders, and internal teams
Comfort using qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate opportunities and results
Initiative, sound judgment, and the ability to drive work to completion amid ambiguity

Nice-to-haves

Understanding of assessment concepts such as reliability, validity, norms, and appropriate score interpretation
Experience expanding an assessment portfolio or developing assessment administration and reporting capabilities
Experience supporting RFPs, state approval processes, sales enablement, and professional learning
Understanding of district assessment operations, including administration windows, accommodations, rostering, and implementation

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