Technical Product Manager (12 Month FTC)

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Job Description

Your team: Commercial Operations & Technology is a thriving team focused on the ongoing maintenance, protection, and growth of commercial revenues at News UK. We are continuously improving and building on our commercial capabilities through experimentation and innovative technology across websites and apps, driving strategic goals across our major media brands.

Your role: As a Technical Product Manager, you will be responsible for the product roadmap and delivery of commercial products, technology, and digital advertising across News UK, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, and the News Broadcasting portfolios. Reporting to the leadership team, you will work closely with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams to implement and develop website and app features that align with commercial strategies, supporting the full product life cycle from initiation to engineering delivery.

Day to day you will:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive product roadmap across websites and apps, collaborating closely with the programme manager and commercial stakeholders.
• Align development dependencies and capture business initiatives through active participation in quarterly planning (PI Planning) processes.
• Prioritize the product roadmap alongside commercial leadership to ensure alignment with overarching KPIs and cross-functional objectives.
• Utilize and analyze data proactively to monitor performance, isolate auction behaviors within programmatic SSPs and DSPs, and identify future optimization opportunities.
• Champion commercial products across product, design, and engineering teams to ensure commercial considerations and insights are embedded from project inception.
• Collaborate with business analysts, project managers, and engineering teams to assemble well-defined requirements, build business cases, and deliver high-quality technical solutions.

What we're looking for from you:

• Demonstrate experience in a product management role, with a proven track record of technical achievement and leading complex digital products in a fast-paced environment.
• Apply a strong understanding of digital ad technology, including programmatic, direct, and affiliate advertising frameworks.
• Manage a technical roadmap tailored for website and/or app development life cycles, proactively identifying new product opportunities.
• Utilize analytical skills to interpret data, identify performance issues, and build data-driven business cases to justify product decisions.
• Exhibit exceptional communication, presentation, and relationship management skills to effectively tell stories and influence senior stakeholders.

If you think you have what it takes but don't tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone's potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• 'Bikes for Work' and 'Electric Car' scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.