Senior Product Manager, Axios
Research, Automation, and Development
$130-170k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$130-170k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is a strategic problem solver
- This person is highly collaborative and thrives on partnering with others to make the greatest impact
- They will also have a passion for Axios, an entrepreneurial spirit, and possess the following skills:
- Expert in delivering on the strategy of AI and automation. Able to see the signal from the noise to determine what is best for the business
- Strength in collaborating across technical and business teams to effectively leverage technologies to make an impact on business outcome
- Strong past experience leading cross-functional ML/AI engineering teams in an agile environment
- Awareness of ML operations principles and how they apply to product development teams
- Past experience educating, evangelizing, and guiding in areas of data and technology
- Strong communication and organizational skills; ability to turn complex technical efforts into easy to understand professional communication
- Strength in running small iterative projects, analyzing outcome, and developing well-thought out proposals as the result of data
- Experience evaluating and leveraging third party tools, keeping up with latest trends, and knowing when to suggest building vs buying
- 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
- Experience with using business intelligence tools (Looker preferred, but not required)
- Ability to present findings to all levels of the organization
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- A strong track record of collaborating effectively with colleagues across multiple agile teams
- An appreciation for trustworthy news and information
What the job involves
- We're hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead the charge on AI & Automation to lead their team as well as work hand-in-hand across the business to educate and evangelize to support adoption of new technologies
- In this exciting role, you will be a thought-leader for Axios and feel the impact of your efforts across the company!
- The Senior PM will product-lead the Research, Automation, and Development (RAD) team and reports to our Director of Product for Data
- This person will champion a culture of smart efficiency and help make us smarter about leveraging technology to solve problems
- Use your agile skills to develop and manage roadmaps, prepare for and run applicable team ceremonies, and maintain well planned and delivered sprints
- Collaborate with your team as well as partners and stakeholders across the Product, Engineering, and Design department as well as Growth, Editorial, Revenue and Operations to deliver on data objectives and inform actionable product enhancements
- Support incoming data requests with urgency, creative problem solving, and focus
- Be an excellent partner and communicator for your team and stakeholders
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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