Job Description

Senior Product Manager (Advertising)

Location:

London

Department:

Not Specified

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

Not Specified



Your Team: You will join the Times Media Product Management team. The Product Management team is organised around three core pillars of the Times product; Subscription Growth, Reader Experience and Commercial Advertising. You will be leading a cross-functional Product team made up of Product, Design, Delivery and Engineering.

Your Role: Joining at an exciting time in the evolution of both the Product team and the Times as a whole, you will be responsible for Commercial product OKRs, helping to drive revenue creation. You\'ll collaborate closely with our Commercial stakeholders and the Commercial Technology team to introduce new monetisation opportunities across The Times core estate, and optimise Commercial-led products such as Times Money Mentor and Times Travel.

You will manage the discovery, experimentation and delivery cycles of initiatives that are focused on impacting these outcomes.

Day to day:

• Lead product requirement discussions and define the roadmap, prioritising where the team can deliver most impact and help the teams package the work into deliverable releases

Share context, provide clarity and frame problems to empower the development team

Be responsible for the desirability and viability of the solutions we build, collaborating with the design and engineering teams to solve problems for our customers

Collaborate closely with the Commercial Technology Team and stakeholders to drive outcomes from multiple product development squads, in multiple near-shore locations

Create alignment with the other product managers on The Times and Sunday Times and work with them to make the best decisions for the product as a whole

Identify market opportunities to improve the advertising experience for readers and clients

Ensure digital advertising is a key consideration in product, design and engineering within The Times and The Sunday Times

Proactive reporting of data to support roadmap progress with comms to key stakeholders

Engage and contribute to the wider News UK Product community, sharing learnings, best practice and helping to develop the Product function at News

What we are looking for from you:

• Ability to work with and influence others to sell your vision and the product journey.

An experimental approach, focused on how we can validate or invalidate our assumptions and drive incremental impact

With the support of our teams, be able to define the solutions to support our roadmap and delivery timeframes, and present well-defined business cases

Make priority decisions, in collaboration with your Product and wider stakeholders, and be able to justify those decisions when needed

Experience working with Engineering to balance the need for shared, common technology whilst meeting the needs of the business

An eye for spotting commercial opportunities, and working out how to balance them with our users\' needs

We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. This role is a hybrid role whereby you will be required to come to the London Bridge office 3 days a week.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual\'s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 daysholidayand up to 4 volunteering days per year;

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships , ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

\'Bikes for Work\' scheme

Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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