Job Description

The Washington Post relies quite heavily on data-informed decision making both at a strategic and operational level. Over the years, The Post has experienced a significant increase in traffic and engagement across various on-and-off platform channels. The increased data volume and velocity coupled with new data sources and complexity has created new opportunities and challenges. To address these challenges and gain maximum benefits from our data, The Washington Post is seeking a Product Manager in our Data & AI team who will oversee our product analytics function within the wider product organization.  

The position will be based in our Washington, DC office – reporting into the Product Management Lead for Data & AI.

Motivation

• You are energized by problem-solving and love to work alongside engineers and designers to create user flows and technical diagrams that ensure solutions are scalable, performant, and meet our business, user, and journalism goals. 

• You are organized, driven, and committed to getting the details right.

• You are comfortable working with partners across the company and enjoy translating complex, technical information into plain language that anyone can understand.

• You want to deeply understand data and analytics to build, maintain, and evolve data and insight tools and products; and leverage data to create new personalized experiences for our users and partners.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to capture requirements, maintain clear and accurate feature documentation, and create user stories.

• Define and execute a product vision and roadmap focused on data engineering

• Turn raw data into insights and knowledge through data visualization tools

• Partner with The Washington Post’s newsroom, social media, audio/video, and live events teams to champion their product analytics needs

• Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies and proactively identify and help mitigate release blockers.

• Use data and research to generate actionable insights and recommend opportunities to evolve the data and analytics infrastructure so that we build scalable solutions that can grow with us.

• Lead through influence by building trust and alignment with clear, proactive communication about your plans, progress, successes, and setbacks.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or professional experience in a technical field or equivalent experience building and shipping technical products.

• 3+ years as a product owner or product manager with a strong preference for experience managing data and analytics products.

• Experience in AWS, including Redshift, and analyzing, social media, podcasts, and video platform data to tell a story about customer engagement; plus developing and launching products within one or more of the following: Cloud, SaaS, enterprise, internal tools, and/or analytics products.

• Understand the life cycle and development of data services by driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.

• Experience creating strategic product roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams.

• Passion for supporting independent  journalism and the industry at large through applying innovation and agile best practices to to delight customers and create meaningful personalized experiences
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Looker Studio, or Apache Superset

• Knowledge of APIs, data workflows, analytics or data products, cloud infrastructure, software as a service, big data, data engineering processes, security and privacy, development and operations, or machine learning.

• Strong data, analytics, and technical skills – including SQL to drive product analytics and insights.

• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.

Compensation and Benefits

Wherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match

• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave

• Nine paid holidays and two personal days

• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent

• Robust mental health resources

• Backup care and caregiver concierge services

• Gender affirming services

• Pet insurance

• Free Post digital subscription

• Leadership and career development programs

Benefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status.

The salary range for this position is:

The actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.

The Post strives to provide its readers with high-quality, trustworthy news and information while constantly innovating. That mission is best served by a diverse, multi-generational workforce with varied life experiences and perspectives. All cultures and backgrounds are welcomed. 

The innovation doesn’t end in the Newsroom – dozens of teams power The Washington Post.  We are now hiring the next innovator – how will you Impact Tomorrow?

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