The New York Times · 11 hours ago
Senior Product Manager, New AI Products & Platforms
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$144K/yr - $165K/yr
5+ years expThe New York Times is seeking a Senior Product Manager to drive the development of AI-powered solutions that enhance journalism delivery. This role involves overseeing product lifecycle, establishing product strategy, and ensuring ethical AI use while collaborating across teams to create innovative reader-facing products.
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Responsibilities
Lead 0-to-1 Product Development: Own the full product lifecycle for new reader-facing AI products, from initial discovery and rapid prototyping to MVP launch and iteration. You will explore both on-platform features across our bundle of products and partnership opportunities off-platform
Define Product Strategy & Roadmap: Establish a forward-looking vision for a suite of products at different stages of maturity and confidence that balances near-term deliverables with long-term strategic bets on the "agentic future" of the information ecosystem
Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Work with engineering, design, and research to scope, build, and deliver high-quality features. Partner with other missions, Partnerships, and Strategy teams to uncover opportunities and validate concepts
Drive Execution: Oversee the execution of the product roadmap, ensuring the team moves fast to test hypotheses while maintaining the high quality expected of The Times
Champion AI Innovation & Ethics: Stay up to date with industry trends, LLM advancements, and emerging technologies. Champion the ethical and responsible use of AI, ensuring our tools uphold our standards of accuracy and objectivity
Own Evaluation for Quality and Editorial Integrity: Create frameworks to assess the success of AI prototypes and products, including synthetic user testing flows and novel metrics for measuring impact in a non-deterministic product environment
Demonstrate 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
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in product management, with experience launching and managing complex software products
Experience working in a 0-to-1 environment, taking products from concept to launch
Demonstrated experience with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs). This includes an understanding for how these models behave, experience prompting, and an understanding of their limitations and capabilities
Experience working with engineering teams in an Agile development environment, with the ability to discuss technical dependencies and system architecture
Experience synthesizing complex information and switch between product execution and high-level strategy
A profound curiosity for journalism and the future of the information ecosystem
Preferred
Experience with digital information or education products in the LLM space - conceiving of and launching products that build trust and overcome reliability and quality challenges inherent to AI systems
Experience building products with personalization powered by a mix of traditional ML and LLMs
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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Chief Financial Officer
Crystal Chien
VP of Engineering
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