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The New York Times · 1 week ago

Senior Product Manager, AI, NYT Wirecutter

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$144K/yr - $165K/yr

5+ years exp

The New York Times is dedicated to independent journalism and is seeking a Senior Product Manager, AI for Wirecutter. This role involves leading the strategy and experimentation of AI initiatives to enhance reader services and operational efficiency.

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H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Create product plans focused on integrating AI to amplify reader services, improve operational efficiency, and optimize commerce initiatives

Guide the prioritization of AI work by building business cases that consider the bottom line and impact on key metrics

Serve as a subject matter expert on new technologies (LLMs, generative AI) and industry trends, translating them into actionable opportunities for the business

Act as the primary advisor to Wirecutter leadership on the bleeding edge of the AI landscape (e.g., AEO/GEO, agentic flows, frontier model advancements, applications of AI in the industry). Provide synthesized insights and strong opinions on how shifts in consumer behavior, traffic, and technology should influence our long-term strategy

Drive a "test and learn" culture by creating rapid, low-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes

Validate hypotheses regarding reader-facing features and assist in translating validated ones to feature teams for productizing

Break large AI projects down into smaller, actionable scopes to mitigate delivery risk and provide near-term and long-term value

Develop metrics to monitor the impact of AI solutions on editorial quality, efficiency, reader engagement, and commercial performance, using data to drive iteration

Identify high-friction internal workflows and demonstrate how AI tools can automate inefficiencies

Work across reader-facing product development teams to identify their pain points and how they can use AI to help solve their problems

Champion the adoption of modern AI-assisted workflows across the organization

Organize demos, share "wins," and upskill product and engineering peers on utilizing AI accelerators (like coding assistants or automated QA) to improve velocity and developer happiness

Champion the ethical and responsible use of AI, ensuring tools uphold accuracy, objectivity, and reader trust

Qualification

AI/ML product managementPrototypingTechnical solutions deliveryStrategic planningMetrics developmentCollaborative influenceEthical stewardship

Required

5+ years of experience in product management

2+ years of experience in AI/ML product management or applying AI tools to enhance workflows and execution

Experience partnering with engineers and data scientists to deliver complex technical solutions

Experience building your own prototypes, scripts, or lightweight proofs-of-concept

Understanding of how and when to use AI/ML-based solutions to solve business and customer problems

Experience discussing technical dependencies and system architecture with engineering and data science teams

Preferred

Comfortable operating in a 0 to 1 environment where resources are constrained, and you rely on creativity and prototyping tools to prove value

Company

The New York Times

The New York Times is powered by the idea that independent, deeply reported journalism fuels a healthy and engaged society.

Founded in 1851

New York, New York, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.nytco.com/

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