Digital Product Manager, Web & Editorial Ops

Palabra; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 72,000 - 89,000; Full time

Job summary

The New Republic in New York, NY is seeking a detail-oriented digital product manager to oversee all product workflows—from discovery to delivery of roadmapped projects, including bug repairs on the website and paywall.

Reporting to the digital director, you will coordinate with editorial, business teams and outside vendors, articulate priorities clearly, and maintain product protocols for stakeholders with varied digital literacy.

Qualifications

• At least two years’ experience with project and/or product management.
• Media experience or background preferred.
• Ability to communicate technical issues to nontechnical staff and manage multiple projects.
• Ability to enforce protocols across departments and vendors; respond to staff queries via Slack and Asana; 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 potential blocks in development.
• Ensure developers understand their priorities at all times.
• Act as liaison between the digital director and editorial and publishing stakeholders on the status of product builds.
• Document developers’ monthly estimated and actual development hours for tickets.
• Create and maintain detailed and sophisticated product roadmaps with large projects.
• 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

Project management

Communication

Tools

Asana

Google Analytics

Page Insights

Job description

The New Republic in New York, NY is seeking a detail-oriented digital product manager to oversee all product workflows—from discovery to delivery of roadmapped projects, including bug repairs on the website and paywall.

Reporting to the digital director, you will coordinate with editorial, business teams and outside vendors, articulate priorities clearly, and maintain product protocols for stakeholders with varied digital literacy.