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Senior Product Manager

Employer
The Washington Post
Location
Washington, DC
Closing date
Oct 8, 2020

Job Details

Job Description

The Washington Post is looking for a Senior Product Manager to build world-class mobile applications for our millions of readers on iOS and Android devices.

The Senior Product Manager, Native Apps sits at the nexus of Engineering, News, Marketing, Analytics, and Advertising, and plays a key role in defining and delivering on company strategy. You will rapidly ship and iterate on new features and functionality to bring our journalism alive on native app platforms while taking advantage of the latest technology from Apple and Google.

The ideal candidate is an experienced product owner with a history of shipping and iterating high-visibility consumer products in a fast-paced environment. Excellent communication and organization skills, interdisciplinary collaboration, and a strong bias for action are required. You should be an apps expert who understands how to decompose and prioritize business and design requirements into something accomplish-able by a team of engineers. You should also have a demonstrated ability to think strategically and creatively to solve business, product, and technical challenges and lift blockers at all levels of an organization.

Responsibilities
  • Manage the prioritization of features within a very crowded road map.
  • Translate feature ideas into actionable product requirements and user stories for engineers.
  • Lead a multidisciplinary team that can include developers, marketers, journalists, and product designers to ship new products, features, and improvements based on business objectives, usability studies, and analytics.
  • Analyze data and research about our users to make informed recommendations about how we should grow our products.
  • Work side-by-side with developers in an Agile process to develop, iterate and refine products.
  • Test products at various stages of development to ensure seamless roll-outs for our users.


Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience as Product Manager or Product Owner in media or consumer-facing online applications, preferably with an apps focus
  • Experience analyzing customer feedback, user research, and performance data to guide product feature development.
  • Working knowledge of Agile methodologies, process and principles and experience with planning and workflow software such as Jira and Confluence.
  • 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.


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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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
 

Company info
Website
Location
1301 K Street, N.W.
Washington
DC
20036
US

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