Job Description
The New York Times is seeking a user-centered Senior Product Manager to support its growing New York Times Games team. New York Times Games helps bring people fun, thoughtful and rewarding daily play through an ever-expanding slate of original games, classic puzzles, and the iconic New York Times Crossword.
You will work with Games team members -- product managers, game designers, product designers, engineers, QA, marketers, editors, customer support, and data analysts -- to transform our current technology stack into something that is scalable, performant, and serves Games’ long-term product strategy and goals. This includes developing a roadmap to support a growing user base on both web and mobile apps. As an essential member of the Games Product Team reporting to the Product Director, you will help drive to Game’s long-term product strategy and priorities.
We Are Looking For People Who
- Are flexible and inspirational with experience leading diverse teams to successful outcomes
- Customer-centric who think holistically about solving problems and focus on what matters most to the users, the team, and the business
- Create clarity and alignment across multiple disciplines
- Synthesize information from multiple sources (engineering, business, marketing, design, etc) to guide sound decisions (including making tough but smart trade-offs)
- Provide an analytical approach to working with large-scale systems
- Proactively identify dependencies, anticipate risks and remove roadblocks, with a solution-oriented attitude
- Exude emotional intelligence and values receiving feedback
Responsibilities
- Lead the product strategy, roadmap and execution with a cross-functional team for a Games platform that serves web and mobile app products
- Partner closely with Engineering Management, Product Design, and the product development team to deeply understand platform needs based on user, the team, technical capabilities, and business impact
- Identify short and long term opportunities and effectively prioritize work at a micro (sprints) and macro (quarterly and yearly planning) level
- Communicate consistently and clearly about goals, initiative planning, priorities and tradeoffs, milestones, and results within the Games team
- Collaborate with the Core Platforms teams to understand when we should be utilizing a shared resource vs a unique need for the Games team; help determine how we can best work together
- Contribute to the larger product strategy including determining high level priorities, understanding our audience, and strategic systems thinking
- Stay up to date on the digital and technical landscape, understand our competitors’ tactics, and communicate important insights with leaders and team
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management or relevant work experience at a medium-to-large-scale company
- Knowledge of engineering challenges including frontend, backend, infrastructure and mobile application technologies
- Knowledge of modern, emerging web and app UI patterns and design tools a plus
- Experience or a passion for puzzles, crosswords, and games a plus
The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.
The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local "Fair Chance" laws.
