Digital Product Manager: Roadmaps, Delivery & Stakeholders

The New Republic; New York (NY); On-site; USD 72,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

The New Republic is seeking a detail-oriented digital product manager to oversee discovery through delivery, coordinating editorial and business teams and external vendors. You will translate digital progress into plain language for diverse audiences and maintain product roadmaps and protocols.

Reporting to the digital director, you will lead stand-ups, manage Asana tickets, track development hours, and coordinate deployments and site performance optimizations.

Qualifications

• Two years of project/product management experience.
• Media experience preferred.
• Ability to translate technical issues for nontechnical staff.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to enforce protocols across teams and vendors.
• Ability to respond quickly via Slack and Asana.
• Ability to create clear meeting agendas.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily and weekly stand-up meetings with the digital director and developers.
• Create, update, and organize all Asana tickets to keep stakeholders informed of progress and to scope blocks.
• Ensure developers understand their priorities at all times.
• Act as liaison between the digital director and editorial and publishing stakeholders on status of product builds.
• Document developers' monthly estimated and actual development hours for tickets.
• Create and maintain detailed product roadmaps with large projects.
• Coordinate daily deployments.
• Document and report daily site speed, as well as other optimization details.
• Report success of optimization touchpoints deployed on the website.
• Enforce protocol standards for visual and editorial modifications for marketing, outreach, and engagement projects.

Skills

Communication

Multitasking

Cross-department coordination

Meeting facilitation

Vendor management

Tools

Asana

Google Analytics

Page Insights

Job description

The New Republic is seeking a detail-oriented digital product manager to oversee discovery through delivery, coordinating editorial and business teams and external vendors. You will translate digital progress into plain language for diverse audiences and maintain product roadmaps and protocols.

Reporting to the digital director, you will lead stand-ups, manage Asana tickets, track development hours, and coordinate deployments and site performance optimizations.