The New York Times
Product Manager, Storytelling
The New York Times seeks a Product Manager to join its Storytelling Mission, a cross‑functional team that works closely with the newsroom to innovate across storytelling formats, surfaces, and experiences. The team creates dynamic, visual, and trusted digital news stories that transform how the newsroom covers news and how readers engage. This is a hybrid role based in New York City.
Responsibilities
Support Senior Product Managers in defining the roadmap by gathering requirements, authoring tickets, organizing the product backlog, communicating with partners, and triaging bugs and feedback.
Translate product ideas or editorial needs into clear, tangible tasks for engineering and design partners, and help maintain a prioritized backlog.
Participate in team ceremonies (stand‑ups, planning, retros, etc.) and promote a collaborative, inclusive, and mission‑driven culture.
Develop collaborative relationships with partners in Engineering, Design, Data, Project Management, Audience Insights, and the Newsroom.
Support the team in monitoring product performance, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights, and use findings to inform product iterations.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission of seeking the truth and helping people understand the world.
Report to the VP of Product on the Storytelling mission.
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of product management or relevant work experience.
Demonstrated experience working with editors or newsrooms.
Comfort working in ambiguous, cross‑functional problem spaces with multiple stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with editorial formats and publishing workflows.
A general understanding of the evolving media, technology and news landscape.
Salary The annual base pay range for this role is $104,000 – $125,000 USD.
Equal Opportunity Statement The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.
Accommodations The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Fraud Protection Employees are aware that fraudulent job postings may appear. The New York Times will never ask applicants for financial information or payments, and will not refer them to third parties for such requests. Report suspected fraud to NYTapplicants@nytimes.com.
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Responsibilities
Support Senior Product Managers in defining the roadmap by gathering requirements, authoring tickets, organizing the product backlog, communicating with partners, and triaging bugs and feedback.
Translate product ideas or editorial needs into clear, tangible tasks for engineering and design partners, and help maintain a prioritized backlog.
Participate in team ceremonies (stand‑ups, planning, retros, etc.) and promote a collaborative, inclusive, and mission‑driven culture.
Develop collaborative relationships with partners in Engineering, Design, Data, Project Management, Audience Insights, and the Newsroom.
Support the team in monitoring product performance, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights, and use findings to inform product iterations.
Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission of seeking the truth and helping people understand the world.
Report to the VP of Product on the Storytelling mission.
Basic Qualifications
2+ years of product management or relevant work experience.
Demonstrated experience working with editors or newsrooms.
Comfort working in ambiguous, cross‑functional problem spaces with multiple stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with editorial formats and publishing workflows.
A general understanding of the evolving media, technology and news landscape.
Salary The annual base pay range for this role is $104,000 – $125,000 USD.
Equal Opportunity Statement The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status, and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)’s Know Your Rights Poster is available here.
Accommodations The New York Times Company will provide reasonable accommodations as required by applicable federal, state, and/or local laws. Individuals seeking an accommodation for the application or interview process should email reasonable.accommodations@nytimes.com. Emails sent for unrelated issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.
Fraud Protection Employees are aware that fraudulent job postings may appear. The New York Times will never ask applicants for financial information or payments, and will not refer them to third parties for such requests. Report suspected fraud to NYTapplicants@nytimes.com.
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