Technical Product Manager, Business Insider
Site Reliability Engineering
$130-150k
Online news platform
Job no longer available
Online news platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$130-150k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To inform and inspire the digital generation and become the most influential and loved journalism brand in the world.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive knowledge of backend development lifecycles, principles, and best practices such as API design standards, trade offs when choosing one database over another, the ins and outs of Github, and application monitoring tools like DataDog
- Familiarity with industry best practices, and have a passion for conducting research and advocating for technical best practices
- Effective verbal and written communication skills to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Outside-the-box thinking and takes initiative in solving problems
- Skills in sifting through systems data and technical logs
- Excellence in time management and can juggle multiple priorities simultaneously
- A team player attitude who can maintain a high level of team morale
- Belief in the importance of journalism
- Nice to have: hands-on experience as a full stack or backend developer and can use that experience in a technical product management capacity
What the job involves
- Partner with the technical leads on DaD to drive and ideate key product initiatives and strategies, such as completing our monolith to microservice API migration, improving the architecture of our syndication application to make it faster, and improving our ability to monitor all of our services
- Craft thoughtful and data driven goals for your team, and identify Key Performance Indicators to measure progress
- Partner with technical leads to break down large pieces of work into incremental deliverables for long-term, highly technical projects
- Gather requirements for new initiatives from engineers and other stakeholders, and present those requirements to your team and stakeholders in the form of product briefs, user stories, or diagrams
- Field requests from external teams and appropriately prioritize work
- Prioritize and refine a backlog of tickets
- Lead a team of skilled engineers to deliver on sprint, quarterly, and yearly goals
- Run daily stand ups, sprint planning, and consistently highlight your team’s achievements to the wider organization
- Manage personal workload to ensure timely delivery of products
- Educate stakeholders and other teams on technical best practices
- Proactively identify areas of improvement in both team processes and tech stack, and present them to the team for feedback
- Frequently document and communicate the impact of the team’s work to the larger organization
Our take
Business Insider - that entered the market at roughly the same time as fellow digital news and media names Buzzfeed, Vice, and HuffPost - has steadily and solidly built itself into one of the most familiar digital platforms for business, current affairs, finance and tech news.
Business Insider was founded by well-known trader and entrepreneur Henry Blodget and sold to German giant Axel Springer in 2015, which signalled an uptick in its performance. This undoubtedly helped it to weather the storm of the pandemic, which hit advertisers hard, and saw many platforms like Insider's lose out on their major revenue stream.
It's also setting itself apart from the likes of Buzzfeed by staying focused on journalism, rather than moving sideways into entertainment, Business Insider's disciplined approach has paid off, and its subscriber numbers continue to steadily rise. Having established itself in the digital news space, at a time when more and more consumers are reading articles online, it can be assumed it will find further success in the future.
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Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jan 2015
$25m
SERIES F
Mar 2014
$12m
SERIES E
Total funding: $55.6m
Company benefits
- Premium medical, dental, and vision coverage with several plan options, including one fully funded plan. Pet insurance, too!
- Retirement savings plan with a company match.
- Equal parental leave for all parents, plus family planning and maternity support through Maven.
- Flexible vacation policy and 10 company holidays.
- Mental health benefits including membership to the Calm app.
- Offices stocked with snacks and drinks.
- Monthly lunches, breakfasts, and other in-person events at all of our offices.
- An employee referral bonus program.
- Our Editorial Fellowship Program gives early-career journalists an opportunity to make a big impact in a digital newsroom.
- Lunch and learns, panels where we learn from our colleagues, and outside speakers to help empower our employees to expand their skills and advance their careers.
- Eight dynamic Employee Resource Group (ERG) programs that help shape company events, influence policies, and ensure every employee's voice is heard.
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Henry Blodget
(Co-Founder & CEO)Alongside Business Insider, Henry is the Founder, CEO and EIC at REGENERATOR and the co-founder and Chair at Spooler Media.
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