Pearson GCC in India: Locations & Company Profile

Company overview

Sector: Education & Research
Sub-sector: Education Management
Mandate (derived): Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC
Parent headquarters: England, United Kingdom
Parent revenue (USD): $4,600,000,000
Parent headcount: 13,992
India headcount: Not disclosed

GCC locations

Noida
Bengaluru

Department mix

Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.

Engineering: 2,589
Marketing: 1,767
Sales: 1,613
Operations: 1,340
Support: 1,185
Consulting: 761
Business Development: 730
Finance: 648
Education: 627
Human Resources: 543
Arts And Design: 505
Product Management: 392
Information Technology: 358
Administrative: 248
Media And Commmunication: 219
Accounting: 205
Data Science: 162
Legal: 93
Entrepreneurship: 7

Technology stack

.NET
ABAP
ACL
AI
ANGEL LMS
API Gateway
ASP.NET
AWS Analytics
AWS AppSync
AWS Bedrock
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Config
AWS Database Migration Service
AWS Elastic Load Balancing
AWS Key Management Service (KMS)

Public leadership

Gopinath Rangaswamy

Vice President, Technology Delivery

Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.

Research overview

Pearson is a UK-based educational content and technology company that serves K-12 schools, higher-education institutions and workforce/enterprise learning markets worldwide through digital learning platforms, eTextbooks, assessments and skills-training services.

India launch: 2005
Maturity: Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC

Pearson's India operation spans multiple cities (Noida, Bengaluru, plus Chennai) with a dedicated Technology Delivery VP, a stated mandate covering both local business operations and global technology functions, and active growth plans - consistent with a multi-function, full-stack GCC rather than a narrower captive or shared-services unit.

Timeline

2005
Pearson India Education Services Private Limited (the entity operating Pearson's India offices) was incorporated in Chennai on 8 August 2005.
2025
Pearson announced plans to grow its India headcount by 43% to roughly 2,000 employees over the following three years, naming India one of its top three global priority markets, including for GCC-sector demand.

Leadership context

Gopinath R has spent his career at Pearson, rising internally over roughly a decade-plus from Director, Technology Delivery (from around 2011) to Senior Director and then to Vice President, Technology Delivery (from around 2021), per his public professional profile.

Hiring signal

Open roles: 43
As of: 2026-08-26

Software Engineer
Cloud Services Engineer
DevOps & SRE Engineer

News and developments

UK's Pearson to raise India headcount by 43% as market becomes key focus

Pearson said it will grow its India team to around 2,000 employees over three years across Noida, Bengaluru and Chennai, citing India as a top-three priority market for both local education/assessment business and global capability center-style technology roles.

2025-06-13 Business Standard ↗

Sources

Sources and research notes

Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.