Senior Product Manager, Financial Times
Article Experience
2+ days a week in office
Global business publication
Posted today
Global business publication
1001+ employees
Posted today
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
The FT has an uncompromising mission: delivering independent, quality information, news and services to individuals and companies around the globe. It’s the cornerstone of our reputation and the heart of our ambitions for the future.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a strategic thinker capable of building strong relationships to get things done and converts scepticism to support
- You’re deeply conversant with the latest developments in technology, including AI, and able to sift the signal from the noise
- You’re excited and optimistic about what technology can achieve while acutely aware of its risks
- You are capable of keeping ethics at the centre of your product development approach and leading the market in defining what good looks like
- You will need to be an experienced Product Manager with a consistent track record of thriving in a content-led environment, ideally with experience of partnering with editorial
- You will have a strong experiment- based approach to delivery alongside proven experience of customer-centred design and data driven decision making
- Strong leadership and communication skills
- A track record of experimenting, building, iterating and growing successful products at scale in a content-led environment
- Analysing both qualitative and quantitative data to support decision-making and measure success
- Focused on innovation with a strong desire to become immersed in how we showcase our world-leading journalism in new and exciting ways
- Significant experience in balancing the needs of internal and external customers in the same product environment
- Developed and proven influencing and negotiation skills with a strong ability to work collaboratively across the organisation at senior levels
- Experience creating a vision and goals for a portfolio of outcomes and bringing people with you to deliver on it
- A curious mind that keeps you learning about our customers and what they need, ensuring this is at the centre of how we measure outcomes and value
- Experience building products in a news media environment
- Proven knowledge of the latest developments in GenAI and LLM technologies
- Experience with complex data analysis and interpretation
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager across the Article Experience teams you will play a key role in collaborating with the Editorial team on using the latest article formats and technologies, including AI, to improve our storytelling
- Experimenting, iterating and learning about exciting and innovative storytelling formats, including through the use of generative AI capabilities to transform content
- Creating tailored and immersive experiences that attract and retain our global, mobile-first audience across all platforms. Our team considers the whole experience, from ways for our journalists to uncover stories through examining data, to innovative formats to tell particular stories
- Collaborating with a wide range of teams within Product and Technology, particularly the Editorial Technology team which builds the tools used by journalists to tell their stories
- Investigating new channels and approaches to storytelling and story discovery enabled by new technologies
- Contributing to the development of innovative tools for our newsroom workflows, including those powered by AI (in keeping with our editorial AI principles)
- This will involve a high degree of collaboration with Editorial colleagues and will require strong skills in strategic thinking, focus and prioritisation, and communication
- The Senior Product Manager will also need to keep journalistic ethics and priorities in mind at all times, especially when approaching work using AI
- You will bind people together with a clear vision across disciplines to super-charge our delivery and seek new opportunities for innovation
- With such a large team with a wide scope you will line manage and develop another Product Manager (associate to mid level)
- Lead a cross-functional team to develop products for our readers and newsroom through all stages – from idea to scale
- Partner with Editorial, Commercial, Marketing and other teams to align on shared objectives and create impactful solutions
- Manage the roadmap to balance innovation with practicality, ethics and safety of AI systems
- Integrate new products and features with existing systems and processes to create end-to-end user experience
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in technology and the news industry to incorporate them effectively and ethically into the evolving product plans
- Create visibility of the team’s work and promote the merits of responsible AI and other technology adoption across the organisation
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1888, the FT has grown into one of the world's biggest online and broadsheet economics and business news providers. It has a strong focus on financial journalism and economic analysis, and provides this essential analysis to companies and individuals across the world.
As well as economics and business, the FT also offers sections on opinion, life and arts, how to spend, and more. In 2022, six of its writers won awards in science, data and investment categories, illustrating the breadth and quality of the FT’s journalism.
The company adapts well to changes in the market to maintain its readership. For example, it recently launched a digital hub and weekly newsletter called Cryptofinance to shine a light on the digital asset industry and how innovations are rippling into mainstream finance.
The FT Group employs more than 2300 people worldwide, including 700 journalists in 40 countries. It includes the FT, FT Specialist, and a number of services and joint ventures. FT's focus on providing impartial, high-quality content has gained it a record-paying readership of over a million, three-quarters of which are digital subscriptions.
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Company benefits
- A range of training courses as well as confidential career coaching and mentoring
- Flexibility - working from home, job sharing, compressed weeks, and flexible working hours
- Enhanced parental leave, flexible leave allowance and paid volunteer leave
- Pension contribution
- Local health coverage plans
- Gym memberships and healthcare schemes, professional counselling sessions, 24-hour employee wellbeing helpline, weekly meditation classes
- Financial wellbeing products and services
Company values
- Ambition
- Curiosity
- Integrity
- Trust
- Inclusion
- Subscriber focus
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
John Ridding
(CEO)After studying for a degree in PPE at Oxford, John worked as Chairman of Pearson Asia, as well as editor of the FT in Asia. In 2006, he was appointed CEO of the FT Group.
Roula Khalaf
(Editor)Following a degree at Columbia University and four years at Forbes, Khalaf joined the FT in 1995 as Associate Editor and Middle East Editor. Since January 2020, she has served as Editor.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Financial Times
Yasir Mirza (Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion)
- D&I annual report
- Reporting pay gaps
- Next generation board
- Employee networks, including Proud FT, FT Embrace, FT Women, FT Families, FT Sustainability, FT Mental Health and FT Access,
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