Senior Engineering Manager, Storytelling

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 looking for a product-minded Senior Engineering Manager to join our Storytelling group.  

In this role, you will manage technical aspects of our Story experience, from the editing interface to the reader experience.  You will lead engineering teams through full-stack innovation projects, to run experiments and scale features that engage our readers in new ways.

Through this work, you’ll power our newsroom’s mission and touch the lives of millions of readers around the world.  You will report to the Senior Director of Storytelling Engineering.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical capability of our Story experience, ensuring that it is reliable, efficient, and secure and working well for the newsroom, readers, and business
• Partner with engineers and Product, Design, and Data counterparts to identify, scope, and prioritize impactful investments
• Coach engineers in developing architectures that support this technical strategy
• Work with our Newsroom Support team to ensure reliable 24x7 global operations
• Partner with engineers to set technical strategies to achieve this roadmap
• Supervise engineers, ensuring that contributors are effective in their technical work and in their collaborations
• Coach the team on product engineering, deepening their product and strategy awareness and encouraging systemic engineering thinking
• Own technical and culture initiatives at the group level, in coordination with other Engineering Managers and the Director
• 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:

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager
• Experience setting and executing technical strategies
• Experience managing production operations for high-availability systems
• Prior experience collaborating with cross-functional leaders across Product, Design, and Data
• Demonstrated history of developing a high-performance team and growing its skills over time
• Fluency in JavaScript applications, cloud deployments, observability, monitoring, and alerting

Preferred Qualifications:

• Direct experience with digital journalism, CMS systems, and/or ProseMirror

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$176,000—$205,000 USD

 

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all  backgrounds to apply.

We are  an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.  The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here. 

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