The New York Times · 4 weeks ago
Senior Product Manager, AI, NYT Wirecutter
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expThe New York Times is a leading journalism company dedicated to seeking the truth and helping people understand the world. They are looking for a Senior Product Manager, AI to lead the strategy and experimentation of AI initiatives, focusing on enhancing reader services and operational efficiency.
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Responsibilities
Strategic Planning: Create product plans focused on integrating AI to amplify reader services, improve operational efficiency, and optimize commerce initiatives. This includes developing strategies that balance immediate impact with long-term innovation
Prioritization: Guide the prioritization of AI work by building business cases that consider the bottom line and impact on key metrics. Knowing when to go deep on a specific use case versus broad experimentation will be key
Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert on new technologies (LLMs, generative AI) and industry trends, translating them into actionable opportunities for the business
Market Intelligence & Foresight: 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
Rapid Prototyping & Validation: Drive a "test and learn" culture by creating rapid, low-fidelity to high-fidelity prototypes. You will validate hypotheses regarding reader-facing features and assist in translating validated ones to feature teams for productizing
Scope Management: Break large AI projects down into smaller, actionable scopes to mitigate delivery risk and provide near-term and long-term value
Metrics & Optimization: Develop metrics to monitor the impact of AI solutions on editorial quality, efficiency, reader engagement, and commercial performance, using data to drive iteration
Internal Tooling Enablement: Identify high-friction internal workflows and demonstrate how AI tools can automate inefficiencies. You won't just recommend tools; you will help teams implement and integrate them to demonstrate immediate efficiency gains
Collaborative Influence: Work across reader-facing product development teams to identify their pain points and how they can use AI to help solve their problems. Build trust by demonstrating how AI can accelerate existing goals
Operational Evangelism: 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
Ethical Stewardship: Champion the ethical and responsible use of AI, ensuring tools uphold accuracy, objectivity, and reader trust
Qualification
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.
1001-5000 employees
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