Fantastic opportunity for passionate Technical Project Manager

About Pearson 

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About the team 

The AI Capabilities (AIC) team at the Pearson Poznań office is an R&D unit that creates AI Capabilities (i.e. systems that use AI methods to facilitate the process of human learning). The team consists of AI Scientists, AI Engineers, and Technical Project Managers. Our role is to: Design, build, and continuously improve customer-facing Intelligent Learning Capabilities across Pearson. Provide technical leadership in the application of AI at Pearson. We specialise in a variety of intelligent capabilities: 

• Cutting edge applications of LLMs to create new kinds of learning experience 
• Adaptive modelling & diagnostic capabilities that fast-track learners through a course of learning and identify struggling learners. 
• Natural language processing-based assessment capabilities that evaluate a learner's soft & hard skills through text or speech. 

We are the team, that enables the Developement of AI-first, outcome driven products to improve learning experience. We proudly support the Polish AI community by sponsoring conferences (ML in PL, Why R?, GHOST Day, Cloud & Datacentre Day), hosting meetups with communities like Women in Machine Learning & Data Science and Poznański Horyzont Danych, and hosting our own series of open talks & workshops

Role overview

The main aim of the role is to support AI scientists, AI engineers, and product managers in implementing best practices for agile R&D. This is a position that requires a competent talent with a passion for building educational products, great communication and organisation skills. 

Key areas of focus

• Coaching and mentoring teams on Agile principles and practices 
• Serving as a bridge between the AIC team and other collaborators, esp. product/capability managers within Divisions 
• Supporting product/capability managers in project initiation and planning. Supporting the AIC team leads in scoping the technological solutions needed to support the business deliverables 
• Facilitating team meetings and providing direction/resolution 
• Periodically, preparing brief project reports for purpose of internal and external communication 
• Supporting teams with removing blockers or impediments and working on improvements 
• Being able to identify risks and dependencies reported by the team and address them accordingly 
• Providing training and guidance on Agile tools and techniques 
• Sharing work results internally and externally (conferences, meetups, etc.) 
• Providing input into team mission, vision, goals, and processes 

About you & skills that will help you to be successful in this role 

• Experience with working in a diverse, remote, asynchronous team across many time zones 
• Strong coaching, facilitation and communication skills 
• Conflict management experience 
• Knowledge of project management methods (esp. Scrum and Kanban)  
• Proactivity, creativity and being open for new challenges and possible changes 

What Sets us Apart?

Benefits and Rewards. We know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business. We know that one size doesn’t fit all, so our workplace programmes meet the different needs of our diverse teams, and their families too. There is a range of options, but when you join our Pearson family these are some of the benefits that we offer that you can look forward to

• Competitive compensation package
• Annual bonus based on performance
• Invest and Earn money and/ or become a shareholder with Pearson Worldwide programme ‘Save for Shares'
• Family friendly policies, work-life balance, flexible working arrangements
• Opportunities to work in global environment, grow your professional network and work from any location.
• Generous vacation policy including paid leave for volunteering purposes.
• Daily challenges and opportunities to make a significant impact.
• A supportive and collaborative team culture.