Associate Product Manager, Storytelling

Associate Product Manager, Storytelling

The New York Times is looking for an Associate Product Manager to join our Storytelling Mission. This mission works closely with our newsroom to innovate across storytelling formats, surfaces and experiences and the tools that power them.

As an Associate Product Manager for Community, you'll support product development as we aim to host high quality conversation about the most important stories of the day through improving our comments platform. You'll partner with editors, community managers, comment moderators, designers, and engineers to evolve how we inform and engage our readers in compelling on platform conversation.

This is a hybrid-schedule role based in New York City. You can expect to go into the office two days a week. You will report into a VP of Product on the Storytelling Mission.

Responsibilities

As an Associate Product Manager on the Storytelling team your responsibilities will include:

• Support the Senior Product Manager in defining the roadmap by gathering requirements, authoring tickets, organizing the product backlog, communicating with partners, and triaging bugs and feedback
• Translate product ideas or editorial needs into clear, tangible tasks for engineering and design partners, and helping maintain a prioritized backlog
• Participate in team ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, retros, etc.) and promoting a collaborative, inclusive, and mission-driven team culture
• Develop collaborative relationships with partners in Engineering, Design, Data, Project Management, Audience Insights, Moderation, and the Newsroom
• Support the team in monitoring product performance, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights, and using findings to inform product iterations
• Demonstrates 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

• At least one year of full-time professional experience in a related field, such as engineering, editorial, moderation, and/or community management.
• Experience using data to guide decision-making for project-based work
• Experience with delivery of projects within a set timeframe

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to digital products, especially within the news/media industry
• Experience collaborating cross-functionally with design, engineering, and product
• Familiarity with editorial format and publishing workflows
• Experience with community management, content moderation, and UGC

The annual base pay range for this role is between $80,000.00 and $95,000.00

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