AI Newsroom Product Leader

News Corp Australia Sydney, AUS; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Time off

Financial wellbeing

Flexible hybrid working

Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced National Newsroom Innovation Product Manager to drive our editorial R&D agenda. You will lead discovery, rapid prototyping, and the de-risking of groundbreaking AI solutions for the country’s largest newsrooms, ensuring ethical, scalable tooling and seamless handovers to production.

You will oversee an Innovation squad and collaborate with editorial and technical leaders to shape a practical roadmap, validate prototypes, and deliver

Qualifications

• Proven track record in product management leading 0to-1 innovation, rapid prototyping, or R&D initiatives within media, digital publishing, or high-pace tech environments.
• Strong practical understanding of the modern generative AI landscape, LLM architectures, fine-tuning, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems, and prompt evaluation.
• Ability to thrive in a high-velocity, real-time news ecosystem that moves significantly faster than conventional software release cycles.
• Exceptional attention to detail with experience building systematic validation frameworks to test model performance, bias, and output safety.
• High-level gravitas with the ability to bridge conversations between data scientists/prompt engineers and newsroom executives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with editorial leadership, engineering, and prompt design to translate high-level business and editorial challenges into a concrete, prioritised R&D product roadmap (rolling 8-week and full financial year).
• Lead the end-to-end innovation lifecycle, validating new AI capabilities, LLMs, and emerging technologies through agile prototyping and clear business-case definition.
• Serve as the product authority on model accuracy, hallucination management, and output validation, ensuring every prototype upholds News Corp Australia’s rigorous standards of journalistic integrity.
• Maintain strategic oversight of the complete AI product pipeline. Partner with the AI Product Manager to manage smooth handovers of production-ready prototypes into the BAU maintenance and scaling lifecycle.
• Contribute and produce crisp technical charters, evaluation frameworks, and product briefs that define our technical philosophy and support collaboration with national editorial heads and global technology partners.
• Remove technical and operational blockers across teams, fostering a newsroom-paced delivery culture that balances speed with enterprise-grade reliability.
• Establish clear R&D metrics and leadindicator KPIs to measure prototype velocity, editorial feasibility, and projected business value.

Skills

Product management

AI

LLMs

Prompt design

Journalism

Leadership

Python

Tools

Python

Job description

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced National Newsroom Innovation Product Manager to drive our editorial R&D agenda. You will lead discovery, rapid prototyping, and the de-risking of groundbreaking AI solutions for the country’s largest newsrooms, ensuring ethical, scalable tooling and seamless handovers to production.

You will oversee an Innovation squad and collaborate with editorial and technical leaders to shape a practical roadmap, validate prototypes, and deliver