Product Manager

News UK; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media organization is seeking a Product Manager for its News Broadcasting division. This role involves driving digital innovation, leading product strategy, and collaborating with various teams to enhance user experiences. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented with strong communication and negotiation skills, and has experience in media and technology. A hybrid working model is supported, requiring a minimum of three days in the office.

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Maternity and paternity leave

Discounted gym memberships

Pension scheme with employer contributions

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in product management, especially in media.
• Understanding of e-commerce and web technologies.
• Ability to work in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Report to the Head of Product and lead product strategy.
• Collaborate with design and development teams.
• Translate business strategy into achievable product goals.

Skills

Collaboration

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Problem-solving

Detail-oriented

Tools

CRM

API design

Agile methodologies

Job description

Overview

Product Manager - News Broadcasting

We are News Broadcasting: Driving digital innovation, our people create award-winning national radio, local radio, and podcasts which are must-listens for millions across the UK, Ireland and beyond. News Broadcasting is the UK's most digital broadcaster with 86% combined digital listening share. The group contains the UK national brands of talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK, Times Radio, Talk and Onic radio stations in Ireland, including Dublin's FM104, Cork's 96fm and Limerick's Live 95.

Your role

You will report to the Head of Product and play a pivotal role in the business, executing the vision, strategy, and improvement of our digital products, across our broadcast brands including talkSPORT.com. This role will lead on the development of the group's website and video strategy, which may expand to our Mobile and CTV apps and voice platforms.

You will distil the product vision into simple and elegant user experiences developed in a lean and agile environment with a focus on delivering business value. You will work with a mixture of in-house teams and external partners to define, develop and manage the products.

Day to day

Product Strategy and Business Engagement

• Work with the Head of Product and key stakeholders to translate the business strategy into a product strategy, set business goals, success metrics and detailed roadmaps
• Lead your product team/s to determine iterations, and prioritise the roadmap based on business value
• Provide a clear articulation of the product vision, features and functionality to editorial stakeholders and the wider organisation

Customer Value and User Experience

• Lead collaboration with creative, user experience, and delivery teams to ensure a unified customer experience
• Effectively communicate product design ideas and concepts
• Lead collaboration with research, design, UX and software development teams to visualise and prototype products and features
• Ensure user research, analytics and testing are built into the product design and development lifecycle
• Run pilot and beta programs that include metrics to measure success

Process

• Work hands-on with design and business analysts, development teams and stakeholders to successfully design, build and deploy new products and features in an agile environment
• Participate in planning sessions, daily stand-ups and retrospectives
• Work closely with development teams to clarify requirements or priorities
• Share and collaborate across the business and technology to ensure a holistic approach and alignment of platform and product roadmaps
• Ensure product issues and customer feedback are prioritised and resolved
• Support business analysts to create user stories that convey what you want and to establish and maintain a visible, prioritised backlog

What we are looking for

If you are passionate about sport and Product Management this role will allow you to combine the two. Whilst you work across all brands a big focus will be working across talkSPORT.com. We are also looking for someone who is:

• Highly collaborative approach to product development both with business and technical people
• A detail-oriented self-starter with a positive attitude, capable of staying on track and discovering solutions to problems without supervision
• Have strong negotiation, organisational and facilitation skills. An excellent presenter with exemplary outcome-based meeting skills
• You're a compelling storyteller who enjoys communicating concepts and ideas to engineers, peers, creatives and execs
• Understanding and experience of publishing subscriptions, e-commerce, CRM, web and cloud-based technologies and role and brief design of API first systems, experience in Scum or other agile approaches

If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don't meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

Working arrangements

Hybrid working: We operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position. Speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

About News UK

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our brands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, with market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our multiplatform brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter and informing our audiences with trusted information. We are committed to representing the diversity of the people we reach and fostering a culture where everyone can contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and grow. This is supported by our Diversity Strategy and employee-led networks such as the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• 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 including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• Bikes for Work and Electric Car schemes
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

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