Engineering Manager, Mobile - Growth

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 Mobile Engineering Manager to lead a team focused on critical moments in the subscriber journey across both iOS and Android. The Growth Mobile team's mission is to grow NYT's subscriber footprint by developing an in-app customer journey and delivering unique value in the NYT apps.

You will be part of an engineering organization that values transparency, openness, diversity, learning, community, and continuous improvement. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City Headquarters. You'll report to the Director of Engineering in the Growth mission and oversee a team of native iOS, Android engineers, partnering with QA, product, project, data, and design cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities:

• Oversee the development and testing of new features for both iOS and Android platforms
• Lead mobile growth team by applying new platform features and Apple/Google advancements to innovate products and promoting their business applications to product partners
• Support the skill growth of the team by providing expert technical guidance and mentorship in mobile payments during rapid team expansion
• Shape the technical vision for mobile payments, sales, and experimentation
• Develop and implement roadmaps and technical strategies to improve conversion, revenue, churn rates, and platform capabilities
• Enhance efficiency by identifying and integrating new mobile tools and AI applications for faster development
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure alignment on Growth mission and company strategies
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers to develop best practices and processes for development for a growing cohort of engineers
• Guide and mentor the growing mobile engineering team to ensure consistent technical direction, best practices, high team performance, effective and efficient delivery across multiple mobile initiatives
• Ensure code coverage, observability and monitoring and work with QA to enable functional automated tests
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal NYTimes services and external APIs
• Oversee career development and performance management of a team of engineers
• 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:

• 1+ years of experience managing engineers and providing technical leadership in mobile development
• Prior experience in software development, working with iOS or Android
• Expertise in Swift/SwiftUI and/or Kotlin/Jetpack Compose
• Experience with A/B testing, analytics, and in-app purchases (e.g., StoreKit2 for iOS), SKU management and subscription functionality
• Knowledge of mobile architectures (MVC/MVP/MVVM), concurrency, memory management, and multi-device/version support
• Knowledge of mobile app release and QA practices, build tools, CI/CD, submission and review processes for the Apple App Store and Google Play Store
• Knowledge of app performance, quality, and responsiveness for both platforms
• Knowledge of layouts, themes, styles, views, and other UI concepts

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree with a focus on software engineering, or computer science.
• Experience with APIs and the engineers who build them.
• Experience using AI tools to improve development and process efficiencies

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$152,000—$190,000 USD

 

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