Jobs at Pearson

Develop and maintain complex enterprise web applications across the full stack using Angular, Java, Spring Boot, REST, databases, and AWS. The role establishes technical standards, contributes to architecture and code quality, performs code reviews and testing, and guides development practices. It requires independent project ownership, strong collaboration, documentation, DevOps knowledge, and the ability to validate AI-generated code using tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot.

Lead quality assurance and software testing for enterprise applications by designing automation strategies, test plans, and scalable frameworks. Perform exploratory, functional, regression, API, performance, load, and security testing. Integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines, validate databases and backends, and collaborate with engineering, DevOps, product, and support teams. Report quality metrics, risks, and automation ROI while promoting shift-left testing, continuous testing, and quality engineering practices.

Supports financial operations covering customer orders, payments, invoices, refunds, chargebacks, audits, reconciliations, voucher processing, and financial reporting. Communicates with customers and partners about invoices, supports accounting controls through data gathering, and contributes to data visualization, system modernization, and automation of purchasing and invoicing processes.

Principal Software Engineer leading architecture and delivery across content, learner data, and adaptive learning programs. Designs AI- and agent-driven personalization services, learner models, recommendation engines, content platforms, and data pipelines. Builds and evaluates production AI capabilities for accuracy, pedagogy, safety, and bias; establishes shared service contracts and quality gates. Partners with learning science, product, design, data, platform, and security teams while mentoring engineers, improving observability, safeguarding student data, and evolving prototypes into durable platforms.

Leads enterprise architecture strategy and modernization for core learning platforms. Designs cloud-native, event-driven, API-first systems; guides migrations from legacy architectures; establishes technical guardrails; and mentors engineering teams. Partners with product, security, governance, compliance, and executive stakeholders on architecture decisions, vendor evaluations, risk, cost, and multi-year investment roadmaps. This hands-on individual contributor participates in design reviews, implementation, integrations, and incident retrospectives.

Develop strategic marketing plans for Pearson’s enterprise accounts and partners. Lead account-based marketing, executive engagement, joint go-to-market campaigns, thought leadership, events, customer advocacy, and partner programs. Collaborate with sales, customer success, product marketing, and executives to support account growth, retention, expansion, and measurable commercial outcomes. Use account insights and performance data to optimize investments and provide executive-level reporting and recommendations.

Support two senior executives by managing calendars, meetings, travel, expenses, events, customer engagements, onboarding, deadlines, documentation, and team communications. The role requires proactive prioritization, stakeholder coordination, meeting preparation, administrative follow-through, and adoption of AI and technology to improve workflows.

Develop Power BI dashboards, reports, and governed semantic models supporting school operations and student outcomes. Translate stakeholder needs into accessible visualizations, optimize DAX and report performance, implement row-level security, validate data quality, troubleshoot refresh and reporting issues, and support scalable self-service analytics. Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders throughout requirements gathering, delivery, deployment, documentation, and support while contributing to data governance and reporting lifecycle improvements.

Leads a Partner Success team supporting state, district, and school partners through assessment program delivery. Oversees customer relationships, readiness, training, adoption, escalations, program schedules, risks, budgets, financial performance, and operational improvements. Coaches team members, coordinates cross-functional stakeholders, ensures contractual and delivery commitments, and drives customer satisfaction, retention, and continuous improvement.

Own product strategy and roadmap for assessment authoring, item banking, test assembly, and publishing capabilities. Conduct user discovery, define requirements, prioritize backlogs, guide agile delivery, measure outcomes, and collaborate with engineering, design, data, and stakeholders. Apply AI responsibly while maintaining governance, security, accessibility, assessment integrity, and quality. Drive cross-functional alignment and deliver measurable customer and business results.

Owns internal audit and SOC 2 programs, control evidence, remediation tracking, risk registers, and business continuity/disaster recovery governance. The role coordinates audit responses, challenges action owners, maintains audit scope and service inventories, manages risk escalation, oversees resilience exercises and attestations, and reports GRC status to leadership. It partners with cybersecurity, privacy, legal, engineering, internal audit, service owners, and external auditors while providing objective assurance and governance guidance.

Enterprise Sales Executive responsible for generating leads, managing the full sales lifecycle, cultivating customer and partner relationships, maintaining CRM and revenue forecasts, and selling Pearson’s SaaS solutions to enterprise HR, talent, learning, and technology leaders. The role requires success in quota-carrying sales, complex SaaS transactions, direct and partner-led selling, and knowledge of learning, data analytics, and AI technologies.

Hands-on Delivery Engineer supporting customer implementations, integrations, technical demonstrations, production events, and issue resolution. The role translates customer and contractual requirements into technical solutions, investigates system behavior across APIs, configurations, logs, and data flows, and collaborates with engineering, product, implementation, operations, security, and infrastructure teams. It is designed for early-career technical talent developing broad expertise across customer delivery, technology, product, and support.

Coordinates education assessment programs and projects from initiation through closure. Manages customer and stakeholder relationships, schedules, scope, budgets, risks, quality, change control, contracts, and project documentation. Prepares status reports, supports business development and financial reviews, and identifies process improvements. Serves as a day-to-day customer and cross-functional point of contact while ensuring deliverables meet requirements and customer expectations.

Own the product strategy and outcome-based roadmaps for shared test security platforms spanning identity, behavior, location, platform, and environment domains. Monitor threats and competitors, conduct continuous discovery, define reusable security capabilities, and measure detection performance. Partner with data science, engineering, architecture, and security operations on AI/ML detection, evidence defensibility, and production delivery while advancing the organization’s transition from project-based delivery to durable product ownership.

Owns strategy and subject-matter expertise for K-12 and CTE state adoption bids. Researches state requirements, enrollment data, competitors, calendars, and procurement processes; guides RFP and Bid Management teams; communicates requirements to Product and Content; coordinates district reviews, presentations, and submission processes; manages state and district purchasing knowledge; and develops post-adoption execution strategies, roadshows, and district engagement plans.

Leads paid search strategy, execution, optimization, testing, reporting, and budget efficiency across Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, SA360, and related platforms. Manages internal specialists and agency partners, oversees campaign measurement and attribution, analyzes performance, supports forecasting, and collaborates with Analytics, Finance, Enrollment, and Marketing teams to improve applications, enrollment, and product adoption.

Owns business analysis for system enhancements, integrations, operational changes, and reporting initiatives. Elicits and documents functional and technical requirements, workflows, data mappings, user stories, acceptance criteria, and system impacts. Partners with Product, Engineering, Data, QA, Operations, and business stakeholders to refine backlogs, manage dependencies, support delivery readiness, improve processes, and identify automation or AI-enabled opportunities.

Designs, builds, and evaluates complete AI systems for Pearson’s K-12 assessment platform. Responsibilities include predictive machine learning, statistical methods, retrieval, knowledge graphs, generative and agentic AI, deterministic services, human review, and system integration. The role develops evaluation datasets and regression suites, analyzes failure modes, supports model adaptation, monitors deployed systems, and collaborates with engineers, psychometricians, learning scientists, and content experts to create transparent, reliable, and auditable AI capabilities.

Leads end-to-end delivery of complex curriculum and content-development projects from initiation through launch and closeout. Responsibilities include planning, scheduling, dependency and risk management, stakeholder alignment, partner coordination, quality assurance, remediation, status reporting, governance, and process improvement. The role manages cross-functional and distributed teams, maintains project documentation, drives accountability, and uses dashboards, workflow automation, collaboration tools, and AI to improve delivery visibility and efficiency.