Senior Product Manager - AI Strategic Innovation

About the team, Elsevier is launching Embedded Innovation Squads to help teams across the organization benefit from GenAI and automation in practical, scalable, and well-supported ways. The program embeds small, dedicated, cross-functional teams directly within business functions to identify high-value productivity opportunities and deliver solutions that improve operational efficiency, decision quality, and speed. About the role, we are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join an Innovation Squad and lead discovery, prioritization, and delivery of internal productivity solutions. Requirements • Possess current and extensive product management experience delivering software solutions in an agile environment, preferably with internal or operational focus • Hands-on fluency with generative AI tools and modern automation concepts with ability to stay current on technical and product advances relevant to workplace productivity • Experience building or managing AI-enabled workflow tools, process automation, and productivity systems, especially in enterprise environments • Demonstrated ability to lead workflow discovery, define productivity problems clearly, and convert operational ambiguity into prioritized roadmaps and shipped solutions • Extensive partnership skills with engineering teams and stakeholders, including comfort making pragmatic build/buy/partner tradeoffs • Experience defining operational metrics and using workflow data to drive product decisions and iteration cycles • Proven success delivering complex, cross-functional productivity initiatives that deliver measurable efficiency gains • Possess current and extensive discovery expertise. Skilled at framing problems, mapping workflows, quantifying impact, and validating solutions rapidly with stakeholders; comfortable balancing speed and rigor. • Ability to work effectively across matrixed organizations and engage productively with different levels of seniority Responsibilities • Partnering with internal teams to deeply understand workflows, bottlenecks, and operational pain points, then translate them into validated product opportunities with clear ROI potential • Creating and managing a prioritized roadmap of high-impact productivity use cases, balancing implementation speed, technical feasibility, organizational risk, and scalability across functions • Defining success metrics and reporting for each solution, including adoption rates, time savings, quality improvements, and employee satisfaction, using data to drive rapid iteration • Leading end-to-end product delivery in a fast-moving agile environment, partnering daily with engineers and operational stakeholders • Helping to define productivity-first product development by applying modern discovery methods, rapid prototyping, and evidence-based decision making • Scaling impact beyond your squad by documenting patterns, reusable components, and learnings, partnering with enterprise teams to make solutions discoverable and adoptable organization-wide