Product Manager

Job Description

Are you a product manager who enjoys solving complex workflow challenges and shaping the future of AI-enabled content authoring?

About our Team: The Global Content Partners team at Elsevier collaborates with authors, editors and subject matter experts worldwide to create trusted content that supports digital and print products. Our mission is to advance knowledge and improve outcomes and we are investing in tools to transform how content is created, maintained and scaled.

About the Role :As Product Manager, reporting to the VP, Strategy, Product & Business Development, you will be responsible for delivering new capabilities within Elsa, Elsevier’s platform for structured content authoring and management. Elsa sits at the heart of how we create and maintain high-quality scientific and medical content. It is used by authors, editors, and internal teams globally to develop, structure, and enrich content that powers both digital and print products.

As we evolve the platform, we are investing in AI-enabled workflows, content enrichment, and improvements to the authoring experience, making content creation faster, more consistent, and more scalable.

In this role, you will work closely with a global user base and cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, incorporate feedback, and deliver enhancements that improve content creation and management at scale. Leading an engineering squad, you will drive execution and prioritization, ensuring focus on the highest-value work delivering measurable improvements in author productivity, content quality and time to publication.

Responsibilities

• Engage with users and stakeholders to understand workflows, needs, and pain points.
• Translate user needs and product strategy into clear requirements and priorities.
• Balance user value with technical, operational, and organizational constraints.
• Lead day-to-day product execution with an engineering squad, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
• Contribute to product discovery, helping define problems, explore solutions, and validate approaches.
• Deliver enhancements to authoring workflows, content structuring, and content enrichment within Elsa.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform prioritization, trade-offs, and product improvements.
• Work closely with engineering (and data science where relevant) on scope, feasibility, and delivery.
• Apply an understanding of AI to identify and deliver practical solutions within content creation workflows.
  
  

Requirements

• Relevant experience in product management or a closely related role.
• Experience owning delivery of product features or capabilities from discovery through to release within an established strategy.
• Demonstrated ability to plan, prioritize, and deliver complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders or workflows.
• Experience working closely with engineering (and ideally data science) to deliver data-driven or AI-enabled capabilities.
• Proven ability to incorporate user and stakeholder feedback into product decisions and outcomes.
• Excellent understanding of the product development lifecycle, including discovery, delivery, and iteration.
• Experience working in stakeholder-rich or matrixed environments.
  
  

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 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

Working for you: We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career, as this role is global, benefits may vary according to your location. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:

• Health care plans and benefits
• Modern Family Benefits, including maternity, paternity, adoption and surrogacy
• Life assurance and accident policies
• Comprehensive pension and retirement plans
• Access to learning and development resources
• Your recruiter will advise you on the benefits package for your location
  
  

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.

U.S. National Base Pay Range: $95,300 - $158,800. Geographic differentials may apply in some locations to better reflect local market rates. This job is eligible for an annual incentive bonus.

We know your well-being and happiness are key to a long and successful career. We are delighted to offer country specific benefits. Click here to access benefits specific to your location.