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Director of Content & Engagement Product Strategy

Dormont Manufacturing Co · New York, NY, USA ·

Pay:
$179,000-$220,000/yr
Job type:
Full Time

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
Fox Corporation
Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.
JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the strategy for our Content & Engagement roadmap, in deep partnership with editorial and marketing stakeholders, across FOX News, FOX Business, OutKick and FOX Weather digital properties. This role requires someone who can combine editorial fluency with product expertise and is passionate about news.
You’ll be the bridge between editorial teams, business stakeholders, and engineering; someone who understands the urgency of news, the complexities of 24/7 coverage, and the technical realities of digital platforms. You’ll set priorities based on editorial and audience needs, ensuring we’re shipping features that serve our content creators as well as our readers and viewers. Success requires technical credibility (you can speak engineering’s language), editorial fluency (you understand news operations), and political savvy (you can navigate multiple business units with competing priorities).
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Editorial Partnership
Build and maintain deep relationships with editorial leaders

Deeply understand editorial workflows, breaking news operations, and content strategies

Attend editorial meetings to understand priorities and identify product opportunities

Translate editorial needs and business requirements into clear product strategies and roadmaps

Manage expectations across multiple business units with competing priorities

Define success metrics for editorial and audience engagement initiatives; measure and communicate impact

Make strategic product decisions about what to build, what to defer, and how to sequence editorial-focused features

Partner with editorial and engineering to define readiness standards and feature requirements for tentpole events, translating coverage priorities into product decisions under real-time constraints.

Marketing & Campaign Partnership
Partner with marketing teams on campaign requirements, promotional experiences, and special editorial projects

Coordinate product support for tentpole events, special coverage, and marketing campaigns

Balance marketing requests with editorial priorities and engineering capacity

Product Strategy & Roadmap Management
Own the Content and Engagement product strategy and roadmap: content discovery, interactivity, video experiences and tentpole events

Lead product strategy for high-stakes live coverage moments — including elections, breaking news, and major scheduled events — ensuring FOX News digital products deliver reliable, differentiated experiences during peak audience demand.

Partner with Acquisition & Retention and Core Experiences pillar leads to ensure Content & Engagement initiatives are sequenced against shared platform investments and cross-pillar dependencies.

Prioritize across business units based on impact, strategic value, and organizational capacity

Partner with other digital leaders to ensure your portfolio benefits from platform investments

Define success metrics for initiatives; measure and communicate impact to stakeholders

Create transparent roadmaps that set clear expectations with stakeholders and the wider product organization

Collaborate with engineering leadership early and often to ensure technical feasibility and architecture decisions are understood

Work backwards from a North Star vision based on functional discussions to balance high standards and the quickest delivery of value to our business and customers

Collaborate with analytics teams to understand user behavior, content performance, and business metrics

Team Leadership & Development
Manage a team of product managers across key workstreams within your domain area

Set clear expectations about decision-making authority and escalation

Create clarity on priorities for teams supporting the content and engagement roadmap

Ensure resources are allocated according to priorities and work planned

Foster collaborative culture between product, editorial, marketing, and engineering teams

Develop team’s understanding of news operations, audience behavior, and business models

Partner with team on adoption of AI workflows to increase productivity and strategic capacity

AI-Powered Ways of Working
Demonstrate active, practiced use of AI agents across research, synthesis, PRD drafting, stakeholder communications, and sprint preparation

Set expectations for AI fluency across the PM team as a standard of practice

WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Required
10+ years product management experience with 3+ years leading product teams or senior product roles

Deep passion for news, journalism, and understanding of editorial workflows and content strategy

Experience building digital media products, content platforms, or audience-facing consumer products

Proven ability to build strong relationships with editorial, business, and technical stakeholders

Exceptional stakeholder management skills: navigate competing priorities, manage expectations, build consensus

Read and interpret data: ability to work with analytics tools to answer product questions

Understand web and mobile architecture well enough to discuss technical decisions with engineering

Basic understanding of APIs, content management systems, and digital media infrastructure

Comfort with technical documentation and ability to review technical specifications

Familiarity with SEO, content discovery, and how audiences find and consume news

Excellent communication skills: can translate between editorial, business, and technical languages

Experience managing competing priorities across multiple stakeholders and business units

Active user of AI tools for productivity (Claude, ChatGPT, or similar) with willingness to develop these skills further

Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of the position. Selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.

NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER
Track record growing audience engagement metrics (time spent, return visits, content depth)

Familiarity with CMS platforms, editorial workflows, or publishing toolchains

Experience at digital news organizations or media companies during election cycles or major news events

Background in audience growth, engagement optimization, or content strategy

Understanding of digital advertising and monetization

Experience managing operations teams or support functions

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We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $179,000.00-220,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.
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