Product Manager, Apps, Newsletters and E- Edition

Product Manager, Apps, Newsletters and E-Edition

Help improve the reader experience and connect our users across Hearst's iconic news brands.

We are looking for a collaborative and results-oriented product manager to support a growing Reader Experience portfolio. You will report to our Product Director and take day-to-day ownership of our expanding newsletter, mobile app and e-edition products in the portfolio. The Reader Experience team acts as the voice and advocate for our news audiences in all markets, and across our free and premium sites. We drive new standards and practices and build products that carefully balance great user experience with revenue generation, and that build and sustain audience growth and loyalty.

What Will You Do?

• In partnership with the Product Director, and cross-functional team leads, develop a roadmap, and trackable OKRs for newsletters, mobile app and edition products.
• Help define goals and KPIs for short-term and long-term results and drive the team to achieve them.
• Accountable for all assigned product roadmap milestones, from product/feature inception to dissolution, as well positioning products and solutions for distribution within multiple channels.
• In partnership with our Analytics team, monitor performance metrics to identify opportunities to improve user experiences, business performance and identify new opportunities.
• In partnership with the Product Director and Product Operations Manager, you will manage stakeholders, make clear cases for prioritization, articulate ROI, and surfacing issues in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the development of newsletter, app and e-edition product strategy through market and competitive research, user engagement, business analysis and problem identification.
• Translate technical challenges to non-technical colleagues, and vice-versa, encouraging critical thinking all around with transparency and understanding.
• Maintain a deep understanding of the competitive landscape and industry & technology, specific to newsletters, mobile apps and e-editions.

What Will it Take to Successful?

• 3-5 years of product development experience.
• A background in digital publishing and you are an avid consumer of newsletters and mobile app products.
• Experience in the newsletter product space, specifically the tools and infrastructure to support them, and with audience segmentation and email growth strategies and tactics.
• Experience deploying to Google Play and the Apple App Store.
• You're comfortable using data, user insights and your own gut instinct to make decisions and prioritize effectively.
• Familiarity with some or all the key players and technology solutions supporting our newsletters, apps and e-edition products (Sailthru, Richie, Olive.)
• Proven track record of responsibility through the product life cycle in an Agile-based environment, including extensive cross-functional and stakeholder exposure and management.
• Experience conducting ongoing market, competitive and customer research, A/B testing, quantitative analysis and usability testing.
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced and sometimes ambiguous environment and adapt quickly to changing needs.
• A team player with a positive, strategic approach to problem solving and to respectfully building relationships and collaborating within the team and across the company.
• Exceptional communicator with the ability to engage, influence, and inspire collaborators, stakeholders, and executives to drive strategic alignment and positive outcomes.

The annual base pay range for this role is 130,000 to 150,000.

Vaccination Requirement: As part of its continued efforts to maintain a safe workplace for employees, Hearst Newspapers requires that all employees who receive a written offer of employment are fully vaccinated (as defined by the CDC) against the coronavirus by the first day of employment as a condition of employment, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Hearst Newspapers will consider requests for reasonable accommodations on an individual basis in accordance with applicable legal requirements.

About Hearst Product Development

The HNP Product Development Organization, a division of Hearst Newspapers, creates exceptional product experiences that balance editorial and business needs while serving our local community of readers. The team consists of Engineers, Dev Ops, QA, Product Management, UX Research, Designers, and Product Operations functions that serve end-users, internal users, and revenue goals.

With 2,500 employees across the nation, HNP represents a network of 24 daily and 52 weekly publications, including the San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, San Antonio Express-News and Albany Times Union, several top digital-only news and lifestyle sites, marketing services businesses, and entertainment businesses such as King Features Syndicate.

At HNP, we are investing in new and innovative ways to tell stories - growing newsrooms, diversifying tools, evolving platforms - to support the millions of people who trust us each month to help them make decisions, take action and be inspired.

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