Product Manager – Data & AI

We are News UK Technology: using technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of media and storytelling. We keep people at the heart of our business through value-driven and inclusive practices enabling our staff to grow and thrive. As such, we are proud members of Tech Talent Charter UK with 34% of our Tech roles filled by gender minorities. News UK Tech is an award-winning team, winning Team of the Year at the UK Business and Innovation Awards, 2023.

The Team: We are Data, a programme that comprises a number of agile, cross-functional teams between London, Sofia and Bangalore. We grow data platforms, build front-end data products and predictive models, and provide experimentation and technical analytics expertise for News UK. We focus on the capture, management and utilisation of customer, clickstream and content data, in order to drive growth and increase revenue for our users. Our users include the newsroom editors, marketing, advertising and product teams associated with our world-leading digital and print publications. From operations and infrastructure support to data technology and software development, we are committed to finding creative solutions to deliver essential news around the globe.

Your Role: We’re looking for a Product Manager to join our dynamic Data product team. As a Product Manager, you’ll dive into the exciting world of cutting-edge technology, collaborating with a diverse cross-functional team to shape the future of our Data Products.

From discovery to implementation, you’ll play a key role in managing our products within a squad, ensuring seamless communication and collaboration with core stakeholders at the forefront of progress, sharing insights and future plans that contribute to our product’s success.

Day-to-day, you’ll be managing the product roadmap and strategy, engaging with technical teams, brand teams, and stakeholders to build a shared understanding of our products’ evolution and their broader business impact. Join us and be a key player in crafting the future of data technology!

Day to day you will: 

• End to end management and delivery of products in line with business missions and product strategy, including managing the product roadmaps, prioritising requests and managing stakeholder relationships for our commercial and broadcasting data products
• Support the business with capturing initiatives and aligning development dependencies in quarterly planning (PI Planning) processes
• Review and present progress towards core KPIs and targets so that stakeholders are aware of the impact our data products are making.
• Build relationships and align with stakeholders to gather data, insights and user feedback around product usability to drive future development
• Use design thinking techniques and the latest technologies such as Gen AI to solve business problems
• Work closely with our business analyst and engineering team to assemble well defined product requirements and technical solutions.
• Support project managers to ensure successful and timely delivery of products that meet the highest quality standards.

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Experience in a product management role, ideally in a data, analytics or commercial team
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to derive meaningful insights from data to drive continuous product improvement.
• Excellent communication, presentation and relationship management skills
• Able to deliver to tight timescales, to innovate and ‘think outside the box’ to deliver products and solutions that meet customers stated requirements
• Understanding of data analysis, insight and visualisation

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, TalkTV and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News: Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Benefits:

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
• Thriving employee networks supporting colleagues to embed and grow, including women in technology, parenting, wellbeing, GenZ, NewsIsOut and faith-oriented groups. 

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

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