Technical Product Manager II, Media Innovations

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. 

Mission Overview & Responsibilities: 

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager with experience in marketing and advertising technology to support and grow our subscription business. You will report to the Technical Product Director for Machine Learning. You will be based in our Times Square office.

The Media Innovations Team develops marketing technologies capabilities and enables customer experiences that grow and engage qualified audiences, convert engaged readers into new subscribers, and satisfy and retain our existing customers at scale using machine learning.

What You'll Do:

As the Technical Product Manager you will lead the vision and roadmap for technology products that are important for marketing communications and beyond at the New York Times. You will collaborate with marketing and platform partners to prioritize the technologies, vendors, tools, and features needed to support our cross-device and cross-platform messaging strategies, keeping speed to market, scale, and actionability top of mind.

• You will identify impactful opportunities to scale omni-channel messaging with a resource-efficient approach, exploring areas such as machine learning, real-time decisioning, dynamic creative optimization, and forecasting return on ad spend.

• You will articulate and prioritize the product roadmap based on customer experiences, subscription growth and revenue impact and input from partners and company leadership.

• You will track industry trends in advertising and marketing spaces, and apply them to your strategy and product plans.

• You will have knowledge of user data and privacy regulations, and can provide an informed evaluation about how these regulations affect the roadmap and the business.

• You will partner with enterprise platforms teams in the company to ensure marketing and media needs are well understood and prioritized on roadmaps.

• You will meet with invested partners, communicate your team’s priorities and roadmap, solicit feedback and gain agreement for key initiatives.

Basic Qualifications: 

• 4+ years of product management or relevant work experience.

• Experience with marketing and advertising technology that enable customer-centric experiences. 

• Experience synthesizing data and research, stakeholder needs, and engineering feasibility into actionable product insights.  

• Experience collaborating with stakeholders across business lines and functions.

• Experience delivering short-term projects with partners while building on long-term capabilities with more significant business value. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience applying machine learning techniques to improve marketing activities.

• Experience with technical troubleshooting (e.g. data pipelines, API responses).

• Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:$116,000—$140,000 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 levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

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