{"id":1360489,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-lead-specialist-program-manager","title":"Lead Specialist, Program Manager","company":{"id":34029,"name":"Pearson","domain":"pearson.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/pearson","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":23,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Poland"],"countries":["PL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":31000,"max_usd":74000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":12},"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-24T15:15:13Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-29T23:54:00Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":67,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":67},"description":"Drive the future of AI Transformation at Pearson as part of the AI Centre for Enablement team (AI C4E). Inspire innovation. Empower learning.\nPearson, the world's leading learning company, is hiring a Program Manager, AI Control Plane for our Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) to join the AI Centre for Enablement (C4E) team.\nWhy This Role Matters:\nThe AI Control Plane (AICP) is Pearson's flagship investment in AI infrastructure: a multi-year programme that closes Pearson's AI governance gap, accelerates how teams ship AI value, and builds the strategic know-how to keep AI cost-effective as usage scales. It delivers enterprise-wide visibility into Pearson's AI estate-what is deployed, what it costs, where it creates value, and what we should do next. AICP sits inside OCTO's AI Centre for Enablement (C4E).\nThis is a deliberately blended role. Roughly 70% is technical programme management of a major cross-organisation investment, working across Pearson business units and corporate functions including engineering, security, and legal. Roughly 30% is product leadership for an internal 'data product'-the enterprise AI telemetry dashboard that turns Pearson's AI investment decisions from opinion-led to evidence-led. You will drive how that dashboard looks and how it gets built, working with a cross-functional engineering pod inside OCTO.\nYou run the day-to-day delivery of AICP-from architecture handoff through business-unit onboarding to global scale-and act as product owner for the enterprise AI telemetry dashboard. You free the engineering and architecture leads from coordination overhead so they can focus on what only they can do.\nAs a member of OCTO AI C4E and Pearson, you are expected to embody and role model our leadership dimensions:\nLive Our Purpose: You align your values, actions, and goals with Pearson's mission. You connect daily work to our broader purpose and make decisions that reflect a deep understanding of our strategy.\nSimplify the Complexity: You navigate ambiguity and distil complexity into clear, actionable plans. You help teams focus and execute in a dynamic environment.\nCarry Our Culture: You foster customer centricity, high performance, and strong collaboration. You lead with integrity and contribute to inclusive, high-performing teams.\nDeliver Results: You set ambitious goals and execute with quality, precision, and speed. You hold yourself accountable for outcomes and measurable impact for learners and stakeholders.\nWhat You'll Do\nTranslate AICP strategy into executable plans-workstreams, owners, milestones, dependencies-across Pearson business units and corporate functions including engineering, security, and legal.\nRun programme cadence and reporting: status, risks, decision logs, steering committees, working groups. Coordinate external delivery partners against contractual commitments and commercial terms.\nDrive business-unit adoption of the governance and security capabilities AICP delivers-discovery, risk tiering, monitoring-against ambitious year-end onboarding targets.\nAct as product owner for the enterprise AI telemetry dashboard: define personas and the questions they need answered, prioritise the backlog, and ship v1 covering an initial set of enterprise tools. Build prototypes and design mocks where it helps the engineering team move faster.\nWho You Are:\nCustomer-centric: you keep business-unit outcomes and leadership decisions-not vendor outputs-as the success measure.\nHands-on and AI-fluent: you mock up a dashboard, prototype with modern AI tools, and drive design decisions yourself rather than waiting for engineers to read your mind.\nPragmatic and persistent: you create clarity where none exists and close follow-up loops before they become escalations.\nWhat You Bring\n5+ years of programme or project management in technology, with cross-functional reach across product, engineering, and operations.\nProduct management or product-owner experience for technical or data products-someone who has shipped a v1 of something internal, not just managed a backlog.\nVendor coordination experience with major enterprise technology partners (e.g. hyperscalers, large system integrators).\nWorking understanding of AI, data engineering, or cloud architecture at a level sufficient to translate technical constraints into delivery plans and product decisions.\nWhat You'll Gain:\nLead-PM/PdM role on a Board-visible AI infrastructure programme sponsored by OCTO leadership.\nOwnership of the enterprise AI telemetry product-Pearson's first enterprise view of \"what AI is doing for us\".\nDirect collaboration with engineering, security, and business-unit leaders across Pearson, and visibility across OCTO and the Chief Data & AI Office.\nWhy Pearson?\nAt Pearson, we don't just build careers-we accelerate them. This position provides visibility across the Office of the Chief Technology Officer and the AI C4E, with a clear path into broader technical and strategic roles.\nWe believe great work deserves great rewards. We offer competitive benefits designed to support the diverse needs of our people and their families. Explore our Benefits.\nPearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and inclusion and encourage all qualified candidates to apply. Benefits and flexible working options are available per local Pearson policy.\nApply today and imagine the impact you can make.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5383,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Flexible schedule"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T23:45:59Z"}],"liveness":{"score":12,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.445,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":66,"expected_fill_days":32,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-29T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-lead-specialist-program-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pearson-lead-specialist-program-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-30T00:19:49Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":142,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4858,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-01T00:00:00Z"}}}