Product Manager 2, Data & AI

The Washington Post - Washington, DC

Part-time,Full-time - Mid Level

Washington, DC

Publishing Industries

About the position

The Washington Post is seeking a Product Manager for its Data & AI team to oversee product analytics within the product organization. This role focuses on leveraging data to create personalized user experiences and improve data and analytics infrastructure. The position requires collaboration with various teams to translate complex data into actionable insights and maintain clear documentation.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to capture requirements, maintain clear and accurate feature documentation, and create user stories.
• Define and execute a product vision and roadmap focused on data engineering.
• Turn raw data into insights and knowledge through data visualization tools.
• Partner with The Washington Post's newsroom, social media, audio/video, and live events teams to champion their product analytics needs.
• Participate in daily Scrum ceremonies and proactively identify and help mitigate release blockers.
• Use data and research to generate actionable insights and recommend opportunities to evolve the data and analytics infrastructure.
• Lead through influence by building trust and alignment with clear, proactive communication about your plans, progress, successes, and setbacks.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or professional experience in a technical field or equivalent experience building and shipping technical products.
• 3+ years as a product owner or product manager with a strong preference for experience managing data and analytics products.
• Experience in AWS, including Redshift, and analyzing social media, podcasts, and video platform data to tell a story about customer engagement.
• Experience developing and launching products within Cloud, SaaS, enterprise, internal tools, and/or analytics products.
• Understanding of the life cycle and development of data services by driving product vision, go-to-market strategy, and design discussions.
• Experience creating strategic product roadmaps and working with cross-functional teams.
• Passion for supporting independent journalism and the industry at large through applying innovation and agile best practices.

Nice-to-haves

• Expertise with Business Intelligence (BI) tools like Tableau, Looker Studio, or Apache Superset.
• Knowledge of APIs, data workflows, analytics or data products, cloud infrastructure, software as a service, big data, data engineering processes, security and privacy, development and operations, or machine learning.
• Strong data, analytics, and technical skills - including SQL to drive product analytics and insights.
• Ability to influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.

Benefits

• Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
• Company-paid pension and 401(k) match
• Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave
• Nine paid holidays and two personal days
• 20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent
• Robust mental health resources
• Backup care and caregiver concierge services
• Gender affirming services
• Pet insurance
• Free Post digital subscription
• Leadership and career development programs