Product Manager
- Employer
- The Washington Post
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Closing date
- May 12, 2019
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- Industry
- Media / Journalism / Advertising
- Function
- Management
- Hours
- Full Time
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
Job Details
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Job Description
The Washington Post is seeking a Product Manager to join our Product team focused on our website, washingtonpost.com. This team drives engagement and develops new audiences for the site in partnership with Product Design, Engineering, News, Advertising, Marketing and other business units. We build new products and features for The Washington Post's site, with a focus on enhancing the reading experience, enabling content discovery, building a community and deepening our relationship with our audience. This Product Manager will play a key part in defining product strategy and will work closely with engineers, designers and stakeholders to ship and iterate on new features and functionality. The ideal candidate is an experienced product owner who has excellent communication and organization skills, enjoys working quickly and collaborating, and is detail-oriented, a skilled executor, and outcome oriented. You should be an Agile expert who understands how to decompose and prioritize business and design requirements into something accomplishable by a team of engineers. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Responsibilities
- Identify and actualize new features for our site products, including tools, templates and integrations with other products (native apps, email platform, subscriptions platform).
- Manage the prioritization of features, clearly articulating objectives and key results to inform decision-making.
- Translate feature ideas into actionable product requirements and user stories for engineers. Ensure that the several scrum teams always have an adequate groomed backlog of development tasks.
- Work with the development teams to clarify stories and provide detail needed to estimate and execute on planned work.
- Work side-by-side with developers in an Agile process to develop, iterate and refine products.
- Create and maintain clear product documentation.
- Test products at various stages of development to ensure seamless rollouts for our users.
- Monitor and analyze key performance metrics as well as identify and measure the impact of new features to make informed recommendations about how we should grow our products.
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
- 3+ years experience as Product Manager or Product Owner in media or consumer-facing online applications.
- Experience analyzing customer feedback, user research, and performance data to guide product feature development.
- Experience monitoring product performance and managing troubleshooting efforts in real time.
- In-depth, working knowledge of Agile methodologies, process and principles.
- Experience with Jira and Confluence required. Experience with Aha product planning software a plus.
- Strong organizational, creative problem-solving, and collaborative skills.
- Proven ability to interact effectively at all levels within an organization, including executive and C-level. Ability to work well in a dynamic group environment and under deadline pressures.
Company
Thank you for your interest in a career with The Washington Post. We invite you to review all of our open positions to find the one that's right for you. We look forward to receiving your resume!
Since it first began publication more than 130 years ago, The Washington Post has grown into one of the most storied and respected news organizations in the world. A subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, today's Post is the indispensable guide to Washington. In print, we enjoy the highest penetration of any major metropolitan newspaper in the United States. On the web, we have the third largest news website with 17 million unique visitors each month, and have recently launched a celebrated news app for the iPad. We serve Washington in all media, on any platform, including paid products, events, and tailored content.
More broadly, The Washington Post Company delivers quality products to today's students, readers and viewers. What unites our company is the immediacy of our products and services, created by teachers and tutors at Kaplan; reporters and editors at our media properties; and associates at Cable ONE.
Washington Post Media views its employees as its most valuable asset and provides a comprehensive benefits package to promote healthy and balanced lives at work and at home. We offer competitive salaries, opportunities for training and career advancement and an outstanding, progressive benefits package including:
Health and dental benefits
Flexible healthcare and dependent care spending accounts
401(k) and company-funded cash balance plan
Life and disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Adoption assistance
Domestic partner benefits
Employee assistance program
Employee referral program
- Website
- https://careers.washingtonpost.com/
- Location
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1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US
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