Product Manager, Ad Experience (REQ-012584_New_York)

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About the Role

The Product Manager I is responsible for creating premium digital ad products that are differentiated in market, perform measurably for advertisers and create a better experience for users across The New York Times Company’s collection of news and lifestyle products.

The Product Manager develops advertising products for specific surfaces, like the home screen, or products, like our Cooking app or an opinion newsletter, as well as the changes to our ad libraries or other ad platform features and supporting services needed to serve and target them to end users. This individual understands marketing and how to define and measure performance for a variety of advertiser goals.

As a contributor to the cross-functional Advertising Mission tasked with contributing to the long-term profitability of The Times through development of a sustainable digital advertising business, the person in this role uses Agile best practices and works with engineers, product designers, product marketers, data analysts, data scientists, and project management to deliver the most valuable products. The person in this role thrives in a dynamic environment and has a proclivity towards collaboration and cooperation.

Key Responsibilities

Product Execution:

• Develop and prioritize the product strategy and roadmap for your portfolio of surfaces, products, or platforms based on customer needs, established KPIs, and input from partners

• Help the team achieve OKRs by leading the product development lifecycle from discovery to delivery

• Define key performance metrics for product area

Stakeholder Management:

• Lead and facilitate effective meetings with clear objectives, agendas, and action items

• Ensure consensus by regularly communicating your team’s priorities and roadmap, and soliciting feedback

• Demonstrate expertise communicating and influencing at all levels of the organization

Strategic Thinking:

• Write value-based OKRs for the Ad Experience team

• Create short and long-term product visions by identifying unmet needs

• Conduct user sessions to better understand the needs of internal and external customers

• Identify near-term opportunities while prioritizing solutions that build on the value proposition(s) of our editorial products to drive performance for advertisers who buy from us directly

• Capture the short-term and long-term impact of product decisions for features/projects and identify risks and weaknesses in product solutions and ensure they are understood by the full team

Team Health

• Facilitate an inclusive team

• Provide unsolicited, constructive, and actionable feedback to colleagues

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