Newsroom Innovation Product Manager

News Corp Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

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Job summary

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced National Newsroom Innovation Product Manager to drive editorial R&D and AI tooling across the country’s largest newsrooms. You will lead an AI-focused squad, guiding ideas from exploratory R&D to validated concepts ready for live newsroom adoption.

You will manage cross-functional collaboration with editorial leaders, data scientists, and developers, ensuring ethical, scalable, and high-impact AI solutions that meet News Corp Australia’s standards.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in product management leading 0to-1 innovation, rapid prototyping or R&D initiatives in media, digital publishing, or fast-paced tech.
• Experience guiding teams through exploratory R&D to validated concepts and live adoption.
• Strong understanding of AI tooling, model evaluation, and production handover processes.

Responsibilities

• Translate editorial and business challenges into an actionable AI R&D roadmap (rolling 8-week and full fiscal year).
• Lead end-to-end innovation lifecycle with agile prototyping and business-case framing for new AI capabilities.
• Own model accuracy, bias controls, and output validation to uphold journalistic integrity.
• Oversee transition of prototypes to production with smooth handovers to BAU maintenance.
• Create technical charters, evaluation frameworks, and product briefs to align editorial and technology partners.
• Remove blockers and foster newsroom-paced delivery with enterprise-grade reliability.
• Define R&D metrics and lead indicators to measure velocity, feasibility and value.

Skills

Product management

AI product development

R&D leadership

Stakeholder management

Tools

Python

Job description

News Corp Australia is seeking an experienced, visionary National Newsroom Innovation Product Manager to drive our editorial R&D agenda.

Sitting at the intersection of emerging technology and high-impact journalism, you will lead the discovery, rapid prototyping, and de-risking of ground-breaking AI solutions. Working alongside our editorial and technical leaders, you will set the benchmark for ethical, scalable, and value-accretive AI tooling across the country’s largest newsrooms.

As a leader of our Newsroom Innovation stream, you will guide ideas from exploratory R&D to validated proof-of-concepts ready for live newsroom adoption.

You will lead our dedicated Innovation squad (including AI Product Manager, Data Scientist and AI / Python Developer, and Editorial specialists) in solving complex, high-velocity editorial challenges. In addition to driving front-end discovery, you will oversee the transition of validated prototypes to the AI Product Manager, ensuring a seamless handover into the live production environment.

This role can be based in any of our head offices across NSW, VIC, SA and QLD (2 days can be worked from home)

Key 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.

Who are you?

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.

Demonstrated capability in guiding and developing other product professionals, setting high standards for documentation and product craft.

What we offer

High-profile, strategic leadership role within News Corp Australia’s flagship AI team, with enterprise-wide impact.

Flexible hybrid working arrangements across our major Australian offices.

Competitive executive remuneration package with career growth across our national and global networks.

The opportunity to shape how generative AI elevates world-class journalism.

Why News Corp Australia

Join a culture where innovation is our operating rhythm. You’ll work on a diverse portfolio of Australia’s most loved brands and play a pivotal role in leading the technological shift in how we create commercial content. Our vibrant, hybrid work environment and dynamic, values-driven culture empowers you to push boundaries, collaborate as one unified team, and make a positive, measurable impact for all Australians.

News Extras Benefits is a commitment to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Our benefits include:

• Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
• Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services that deliver genuine cost savings and benefits
• Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
• Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
• Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
• Helping you grow - Access tailored development opportunities, including leadership programs, to cultivate your skills and support your career
• Giving back - Make a difference to our communities through volunteer opportunities and company-organised charity drives
• Workplace Inclusion and facilities – Engage with your passions through various employee-resource groups and accessibility to multi-faith quiet rooms & parents’ rooms

Who are we?

News Corp Australia is the nation’s most influential media organisation, operating more than 150 household-name brands across print, digital, and multimedia. We lead the way in travel, fashion, food, health, homes, and lifestyle, and we are the largest publisher across print and digital, reaching more than 16 million Australians each month.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Diversity strengthens our national teams and newsroom as we seek to tell stories that represent the communities of Australia. Our people make us unique, and so we are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or gender identity. Applicants of diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply!

We are committed to ensuring an accessible and supportive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage, please do not hesitate to let us know here. In order for us to assist you, please ensure you include the role title you are applying for in the subject line. For more information regarding Diversity at NewsCorp Australia please visit www.newscorpaustralia.com/careers under the Diversity@News section.