Director of Product, Axios
Data
$180-220k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$180-220k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can clearly express their vision and the path to get there
- This person is highly collaborative and thrives on partnering with others to make the greatest impact
- This person will also have a passion for Axios, an entrepreneurial spirit
- Expert in determining a strategy and building a vision around data from a product perspective, in partnership with stakeholders and engineering leaders
- Strength in collaborating across technical and business teams to effectively leverage existing data sources, augment where needed, and improve the value of our data
- Measurable experience in a leadership role where you have led teams, products, and directly managed other data-focused employees
- Past experience educating, evangelizing, and guiding on data-related initiatives
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Expertise in enabling consumer-centric metrics to determine success and inform growth opportunities (e.g. customer LTV, marketing funnel effectiveness, return on media spend, A/B testing, audience segmentation, etc.)
- Experience evaluating and leveraging third party tools as well as customer data to develop audience profiles, cohorts, and integrate with marketing and sales tech
- Preferred experience in media and/or with SaaS products
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to analyze and disseminate significant amounts of information, with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to analyze large datasets to identify patterns/trends and apply statistical techniques
- Experience with using business intelligence tools (Looker preferred, but not required)
- Ability to present findings to all levels of the organization
- Preferred experience with AI initiatives, testing, and rollout
- Applied experience and proficiency with SQL
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A strong track record of collaborating effectively with colleagues
What the job involves
- The Director of Product will champion a data-informed culture
- This person will partner across the technical data leads as well as across the organization to determine how to drive and implement strategies as the result of customer behavior, traits, preferences, and motivations
- Use your agile skills to oversee the development and delivery of roadmaps and assure that your teams are working on what is most critical
- Partner with product leadership across the department to devise strategic means of growing critical audience data, deriving meaningful insights, and promoting self-service
- Collaborate with technical leadership within the data organization, to have a unified vision of the platform and necessary outcomes that the team can deliver against
- Propose impactful initiatives to deliver on the needs of the organization based on your expertise
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 that other news outlets were enduring 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. In 2025, it was announced that OpenAI would be funding Axios's expansion into new US territories, suggesting even more growth on the horizon.
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
(Co-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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