Job Description

Sr. Director, Product Management

Location

Remote, DC, USA

Mission

Our mission is to unlock human potential. We welcome you for who you are, the background you bring, and we embrace individuals who get excited about learning. Bring your experiences, your perspectives, and your passion; it’s in our differences that we empower the way the world learns.

About the Role

The Atypon product team within Wiley Research is seeking a driven and innovative product leader for our Publishing Product and Platform team. Our team focuses on delivering digital products that anticipate and address the rapidly evolving needs of scholarly, academic, and commercial publishers. This is an opportunity to lead product management for Wiley’s Atypon Experience Platform, on which over 50% of the world’s English language research is published. You will grow interactions with the platform, generate scale that ties into exciting plans to connect audiences with partners and drive platform innovation and future customer needs, such as Generative AI workflows and product strategies.

Impact

Strategic Planning

• Create and drive the product roadmap for Atypon.
• Collaborate with Product Managers across Partner Solutions to define strategic product vision and roadmaps.
• Lead a team of product managers responsible for Atypon, its user experience, and admin tools.
• Engage with customers to develop insights and feedback loops to inform product roadmaps. Present roadmap, results and analysis to Wiley executives, partner solutions, customers and others.
• Partner with business stakeholders, product managers, and customers to develop innovative future-facing products and feature needs.
• Partner with delivery and operations colleagues, engineering and product management colleagues to ensure efficient operation and release of products across Product and Platforms.

Technical Leadership

• Work closely with engineering teams to solve and develop core platform value that customers can easily use to implement and self-serve.
• Identify technical trends in the market and how they might be incorporated into our platform or how we can leverage them to support customers.

Stakeholder Management

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to align the product vision with organizational goals and customer needs.
• Facilitate cross-functional team collaborations, especially with delivery teams, software engineers, and other product managers.
• Alignment between user needs, technology development, and our product aspirations.
• Drive industry connections with current and possible customers, staying on top of trends and evolving standards in the market.

Product Development & Testing

• Manage the complete product life cycle, from ideation to launch and evaluation.
• Conduct A/B testing and user interviews to validate assumptions and improve features.
• Optimize and market-test product features characterized by their robustness, user‑centricity, and alignment with market needs.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management of scholarly publishing workflow products.
• Experience leading strategy development across a suite of products within the publishing industry and academic publishing.
• Deep understanding of research assessment user needs and technology opportunities.
• Familiarity with Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Strong analytic skills, comfortable with A/B testing and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree.

About Wiley

Wiley is a trusted leader in research and learning, our pioneering solutions and services are paving the way for knowledge seekers as they work to solve the world’s most important challenges. We are advocates of advancement, empowering knowledge‑seekers to transform today’s biggest obstacles into tomorrow’s brightest opportunities. With over 200 years of experience in publishing, we continue to evolve knowledge seekers’ steps into strides, illuminating their path forward to personal, educational, and professional success at every stage. Around the globe, we break down barriers for innovators, empowering them to advance discoveries in their fields, adapt their workforces, and shape minds.

Wiley is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual’s status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities. Applicants who require accommodation to participate in the job application process may contact tasupport@wiley.com for assistance.

We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well‑being of all employees. We offer meeting‑free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads‑down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programing we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting. It is anticipated that most qualified candidates will fall within the range, however the ultimate salary offered for this role may be higher or lower and will be set based on a variety of non‑discriminatory factors, including but not limited to, geographic location, skills, and competencies.

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.

Salary Range: 154,000 USD to 226,667 USD