Job Description:
The Product Manager for Social and Community is responsible for the product evolution of our social and community features across the nytimes.com and mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have strong empathy for user needs, a quantitative approach to decision-making and a bias for execution.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the Times’ digital audience and how social and community features can improve their experience around news consumption.
- Conceiving, defining, and releasing new product features.
- Mapping our roadmap and product initiatives to measurable user and business value.
- Delivering initiatives by working cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, newsroom editors, and fellow product managers through iterative product development.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Strong understanding of the web and mobile technologies.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias towards data-based decision making.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; proven ability to guide cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
- Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces.
- Experience developing social and community products, technologies and platforms is a plus.
J2W:MB
Company Information:
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is a global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. The company includes The New York Times, International New York Times, NYTimes.com, INYT.com and related properties. It is known globally for excellence in its journalism, and innovation in its print and digital storytelling and its business model. Follow news about the company at @NYTimesComm.
EEO Statement:
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.
The Product Manager for Social and Community is responsible for the product evolution of our social and community features across the nytimes.com and mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have strong empathy for user needs, a quantitative approach to decision-making and a bias for execution.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding the Times’ digital audience and how social and community features can improve their experience around news consumption.
- Conceiving, defining, and releasing new product features.
- Mapping our roadmap and product initiatives to measurable user and business value.
- Delivering initiatives by working cross-functionally with designers, software development engineers, newsroom editors, and fellow product managers through iterative product development.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree.
- Strong understanding of the web and mobile technologies.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; strong bias towards data-based decision making.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; proven ability to guide cross-functional teams through influence versus direct management.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills.
- Experience designing simple and intuitive user interfaces.
- Experience developing social and community products, technologies and platforms is a plus.
J2W:MB
Company Information:
The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is a global media organization dedicated to enhancing society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news and information. The company includes The New York Times, International New York Times, NYTimes.com, INYT.com and related properties. It is known globally for excellence in its journalism, and innovation in its print and digital storytelling and its business model. Follow news about the company at @NYTimesComm.
EEO Statement:
The New York Times Company is an equal employment opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, national origin, citizenship or any other protected characteristic. The New York Times Company is committed to diversity in its most inclusive sense.