Senior Product Manager - Editor Decision Support
About the role
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About the role
Role Responsibilities
- Owning, defining and driving the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for editorial decision-support solutions in the post-peer-review process.
- Leading delivery within a cross-functional agile team, managing priorities, maintaining a healthy backlog, and ensuring consistent product delivery.
- Partnering with scientific editors to understand decision-making challenges, gather user insights, and translate findings into impactful product improvements.
- Championing evidence-based decision-making through qualitative and quantitative research, analytics, experimentation, and clear success metrics.
- Collaborating with data science teams to evaluate AI-driven capabilities, including review synthesis, contradiction detection, and evidence linking, and using findings to prioritise enhancements.
- Measuring product success through business and user outcomes, defining KPIs and OKRs, communicating value, and assessing build, buy, or partner options.
- Working with engineering and technical teams to balance product, technical, and architectural considerations.
- Ensuring products support transparency, accountability, and responsible use of AI, with appropriate human oversight and auditability.
- Aligning stakeholders across Publishing, Technology, Operations, Editorial Strategy, and Research Integrity to build shared understanding and support.
- Supporting go-to-market activities, product launches, customer adoption, and migration planning.
Skills & Requirements
- Significant product management experience, including ownership of product strategy, roadmap development, and delivery. Experience with Spec-Driven Development (SDD) is beneficial but not essential.
- Strong product judgment and the ability to define complex problems, evaluate trade-offs, and focus on user outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience working with AI and machine learning products, including generative AI, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), or agent-based workflows.
- Strong analytical skills and experience using data, experimentation, and research to inform decisions in uncertain or evolving environments.
- Experience leading product initiatives within cross-functional teams and delivering outcomes in complex settings.
- Experience collaborating with data scientists and translating model evaluations and insights into product decisions.
- An understanding of technical concepts and architectural trade-offs, with the ability to work effectively alongside engineering teams. Experience prototyping with AI tools is helpful but not required.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
- Commercial awareness and an understanding of how product decisions contribute to organisational goals and customer value.
- Familiarity with scholarly publishing, editorial workflows, peer review, or research integrity is advantageous but not required.
Work in a Way That Works for You
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance, and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working Pattern
Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit everything in and work when you are the most productive.
About the Business
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals' advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. At Elsevier, your work contributes to the world's grand challenges and a more sustainable future. We harness innovative technologies to support science and healthcare to partner for a better world.
If performed in NLD Amsterdam (Radarweg), the base pay range is €100,400 - €167,300.
This job may be subject to a collective labor agreement in the Netherlands. Please consult with the hiring team for further details.
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