Senior Product Manager

Condé Nast is a global media company, home to iconic brands including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Brides, Self, GQ, GQ Style, The New Yorker, Condé Nast Traveler, Allure, Architectural Digest, Bon Appétit, Epicurious, Wired, W, Golf Digest, Golf World, Teen Vogue, Ars Technica, The Scene, Pitchfork, Backchannel and many others.

The company's award-winning content reaches 84 million consumers in print, 367 million in digital and 379 million across social platforms, and generates more than 1 billion video views each month.

The company is headquartered in London and New York and operates in 32 markets worldwide, including China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico & Latin America, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, the U.

K. and the U.S, with local license partners across the globe.

About the Conde Nast Global Product & Technology :

The Global Product and Technology group is responsible for the core web and mobile applications that connect individual readers to Conde Nast’s award-winning editorial content across multiple distribution channels.

Job Description :

As the senior product manager for The New Yorker apps (iOS and Android) you will execute the strategic roadmap for both the iOS and Android apps.

Working in collaboration with your partners in editorial, design, engineering, and project management, you will identify data-driven opportunities to increase engagement with our apps, meet business goals, and ensure sound technical solutions to achieve impact.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Product, News & Culture.

Responsibilities include :

Management :

• Manage one product manager who reports to this role, ensuring their work is impactful, coaching them on best agile and product management practices.
• Constantly evolve team processes and resources to improve quality and speed of delivery.

Prioritization and planning :

• Driving product prioritization within a 0-6 month time horizon, with the ability to manage prioritization across both short- and long-term projects, managing unforeseen situations logically and effectively.
• Co-leading cross-functional teams with partners in design, engineering, and project management to design and deliver features that meet the needs of our users
• Define user problems / epics / themes stories and propose product solutions to address these
• Managing the product roadmaps and iterative development cycles across multiple teams, ensuring that clear requirements are provided
• Managing and prioritizing multiple initiatives with authority while influencing your peers through respect
• Converting business objectives and aligned frameworks into development plans and following through with delivery
• Devising and refining Objectives and Key Results for the apps with a focus on delivering impact
• Aligning with engineering and architecture teams to determine resourcing plans.
• Manage day to day product planning & delivery (i.e. agile ceremonies).

Communication and Documentation :

• Proactively and clearly communicating updates, roadblocks, and other team developments to stakeholders.
• Aligning executives and stakeholders across the company to the product roadmap.
• Writing product briefs and gaining team and stakeholder buy-in on new approaches to problems.
• Create and manage all product documentation, communicate strategy, project status, conflicts.
• Thrive in a global environment working across multiple time zones.
• Build effective relationships with strong verbal and written abilities, working diplomatically and effectively across departments.

The ideal candidate has :

• 3-6 years of experience developing products at media, social media, content creation, or editorial commerce companies
• Bachelor or Masters degree in a technical discipline
• Experience in developing and delivering digital products at scale within a consumer-facing company (preferably media)
• Previous experience with native app development, ideally both iOS and Android, including API development
• Experience working with modern CMS tools
• Experience working with data tracking tools, such as GA, including understanding and communicating data trends
Criteria :
• Bridge
• Bridge
• Domain expertise
• Data-driven
• Strategic thinking and articulating rationale
• Communication
• UX design (?)
• Execution
• Align to framework / direction relative priority

About The New Yorker :

The New Yorker is a multi-platform media enterprise, spanning print, digital, audio, video, and live events. Founded in 1925, The New Yorker is considered by many to be the most influential magazine in the world, renowned for its in-depth reporting, political and cultural commentary, fiction, poetry, humor, and cartoons.

In addition to the weekly print magazine, The New Yorker has become a daily digital destination for news and cultural coverage by its staff writers and other contributors.

In print and online, The New Yorker stands apart for its commitment to truth and accuracy, for the quality of its prose, and its insistence on exciting and moving every reader.