Senior Product Manager

The Sun; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Gym membership discounts

Bikes for Work

HarperCollins books discount

Maternity/paternity leave

Wellbeing benefits

Pension scheme

LinkedIn Learning access

25 days holiday

Job summary

The Sun product team is building a roadmap for our web products, from discovery to implementation. You will present progress and future plans to core stakeholders and collaborate with our Product team.

You will work with business stakeholders to implement features aligned with the overall strategy, using data to drive decisions and demonstrate value.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading digital product teams in a fast-paced media, publishing, or consumer tech environment.
• Deep understanding of WordPress is essential.
• Strong communicator capable of engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and evolving requirements.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills: use data to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform vision and maintain momentum across the workstream.
• Help manage the product roadmap across the given area and present options to stakeholders for approval.
• Collaborate with wider Technology teams to ensure early understanding of requirements.
• End-to-end management and delivery of products aligned to business and product strategy.
• Manage relationships with other teams to ensure successful product deliveries.

Skills

Product leadership

WordPress

Stakeholder comms

Organization skills

Analytical storytelling

Passion for news/media

Job description

Your team: The Sun is one of the UK’s strongest brands and, like all media organisations,

is growing in a fast-moving digital world. The Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse, a daily relationship. The Sun product team owns several digital products across the brand, including; Sun Savers, Sun Web and Mobile Apps, and the Sun Classic digital newspaper.

Your role: Working in the Sun product team, you will be working closely with the team on building out a roadmap for our web products. From discovery to implementation, you will be playing back to core stakeholders on the progress and future plans, in collaboration with our Product team.

You will work closely with business stakeholders to implement features and improvements that are in line with the overall product strategy, using data at the heart of your decisions, assessing value where possible.

You will be part of a product team that will support you in delivering the product roadmap and supporting the Head of Product and Principle Product Managers in shaping the future of our products.

Your key responsibilities include:

• Balance short-term delivery with long-term platform vision, making trade-offs explicit and maintaining momentum across your workstream.
• Help manage the product roadmap across your given area, providing options to stakeholder groups in order to gain approval.
• Closely work with the wider Technology teams to ensure they have an understanding of requirements at an early stage.
• End to end management and delivery of products in line with business and product strategy.
• Manage relationships with other teams throughout the organisation that are required to ensure successful product deliveries.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Proven experience and track record of leading digital product teams within a fast-paced media, publishing, or consumer tech environment.
• Deep understanding of WordPress.
• Skilled communicator, confident engaging technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Excellent organisational skills, comfortable managing multiple priorities and evolving requirements.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills: use data to drive decisions and inspire teams.
• Passion for news, media, and storytelling.

What’s in it for you? We are a diverse and dynamic team, with opportunities to learn and

develop your skills in a supportive environment. We have an amazing office, a flexible

working pattern and a great team culture. We’ll help you deliver your best work and grow you

with career and personal development through training, conferences and courses.

News UK is 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 and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

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. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• 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%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you to apply for any of our roles please contact us on [e-mail].