Senior Product Manager, Axios
$140-190k
News media company
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News media company
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$140-190k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- 5–7 years of experience in product management or equivalent roles in technology, media or SaaS
- Demonstrated success leading the roadmap for a product area with end-to-end accountability
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to connect day-to-day execution to long-term company goals
- Proven ability to balance stakeholder needs and communicate trade-offs clearly
- Experience defining KPIs, measurement frameworks, and using data to drive decisions
- Track record of mentoring, coaching, and creating growth opportunities for teammates
- Skilled at unblocking others, improving processes, and clarifying direction for peers
- Advanced fluency in AI tools, with experience adapting and integrating them into team workflows
- Experience working with cross functional teams such as engineering, data science and design
- Ideal candidates will embody an entrepreneurial spirit and a passion for Axios’ mission
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the roadmap for a core product area, shaping strategy and execution that drive measurable impact for our readers, journalists, and advertisers
- This role is pivotal to advancing Axios’ mission at scale. Senior Product Managers balance strategic thinking with execution, operating independently to set direction, resolve ambiguity, and ensure alignment across stakeholders
- By leading end-to-end product strategy and fostering team growth, you will help build products that power the future of Axios
- Own and lead the roadmap for a core product area, from vision through execution
- Define KPIs and measurement frameworks to track performance and guide strategy
- Uncover trends and use data to drive strategic product decisions
- Evaluate trade-offs between value and complexity, explaining risks and decisions to stakeholders
- Navigate ambiguity and proactively propose solutions that align with team and business goals
- Anticipate edge cases, consider long-term impacts, and improve product processes and design patterns
- Lead major team initiatives, balancing competing stakeholder needs while maintaining alignment
- Mentor, coach, and delegate to create growth opportunities for peers and junior PMs
- Unblock teammates and establish support structures that improve team efficiency
- Identify high-leverage use cases for AI and integrate AI tooling into team processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- What success looks like:
- A clearly defined and well-executed roadmap for a core product area that drives measurable impact
- Data-driven decisions that improve user experience, engagement, and business outcomes
- Effective alignment of stakeholders and cross-functional partners through clear communication of trade-offs, risks, and long-term impacts
- Demonstrated leadership through mentoring, coaching, and enabling team growth
- Strong contributions to process improvements and scalable design patterns
- Integration of AI tools and workflows that meaningfully improve team efficiency and effectiveness
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions other news outlets were having to undergo to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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