Director, Product Management, Ad Tech

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The New York Times is hiring a Product Director, AdTech to define our approach to data for advertising and lead a cross-functional product development team to achieve that strategy. You will drive the evolution of how data is used to improve the performance of our ad products and grow our advertising revenue. Your cross-functional product development team consists of product managers, engineers, ML scientists, analysts, and designers.

You will be responsible for end-to-end ownership of data-driven capabilities for advertising, including building and scaling products that solve for targeting (using 1st and 2nd party data), measurement, frequency control, brand safety, id-less solutions, campaign optimization, data privacy, data partnerships, and integrations. You will also be involved in optimizing our programmatic ad stack across all of our portfolio brands, including News, Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic. 

You will report to the Head of Digital Advertising Mission and have direct management oversight of product management while leading the rest of your product development team. You will also collaborate with advertising product marketing, sales, planning, and ad ops teams to improve existing and launch new data product offerings to the market. This is a hybrid position, and you will work out of our NYC headquarters 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities:

• You will develop a strategic roadmap for all data products, analytics tooling, and data infrastructure products for advertising. You will communicate the rationale to technical and non-technical partners.

• You will strengthen our first-party and contextual targeting capabilities using the Times proprietary data and advances in GenAI and Machine Learning.

• You will build products that help demonstrate outcomes for advertisers' spending through Measurement and Attribution reporting with In-house and measurement partners.

• You will build or partner to build solutions that solve for advertisers' needs including brand safety, reach, and frequency control.

• You will build solutions to increase our direct sales efficiency through products like Insights, Campaign intelligence, and client/prospect understanding tools.

• You will contribute to the optimization of our programmatic ad stack.

• You will collaborate with leadership and your team to plan roadmaps, meet deadlines, own product adoption, and track results.

• You will manage  a team of 2-3 product managers to  establish a product culture suited to the unique technical requirements of this team. You will oversee and manage select projects directly, while delegating responsibilities and tasks to team members as appropriate.

• You will consider and incorporate diverse points of view and you will be comfortable making decisions when surrounded by divergent opinions.

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

Basic Qualifications:

• 10+ years of digital product management experience.

• 4+ years of experience working in Ad Tech, preferably in a media company with exposure to programmatic and direct sold products.

• 4+ years of managerial experience developing talent and culture.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience building data products or working deeply with data engineering, data analysis or data science.

 

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$160,000—$185,000 USD

The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all leve