Technical Product Manager II, Content Data Products

The New York Times Company; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 142,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid vacation and sick days

Tuition reimbursement and professional

Job summary

The New York Times Company is seeking a Technical Product Manager II for Content Data Products in New York, NY. This hybrid role combines product leadership with data infrastructure to power editorial, AI, and partner integrations across Time- crafted content formats, including video and interactive assets.

You will partner with engineering and editorial teams to define data contracts, guide the data warehouse roadmap, and ensure scalable ingestion pipelines that support search and AI use cases.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of technical product management experience.
• 3+ years launching complex software with engineering partners.
• Experience with unstructured or multimedia data ingestion pipelines.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Roadmap Execution: Lead the strategy and delivery for the content data warehouse and ingestion pipelines for new content types and metadata enrichment.
• Data Modeling & Indexing: Define specifications for modeling, ingesting, and indexing new content formats for search, retrieval, and AI use cases.
• Catalog Optimization: Audit archival structures, address metadata gaps, and improve catalog completeness in collaboration with operations and legal.
• Collaboration: Gather requirements, establish data contracts, prioritize features, and communicate roadmap progress and risks across engineering, design, editorial, and leadership.
• Product Delivery: Guide the end-to-end product development lifecycle from concept to launch with high quality.

Skills

Tech product mgmt

Content data

Platform infrastructure

Data ingestion pipelines

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (CS/Data Science/Info Science/Journalism)

Tools

SQL

Relational databases

Schema auditing

Job description

Technical Product Manager II, Content Data Products

Office: New York, NY
Department: Product and Design - Product Management

Job Description

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It's why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It's why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it's why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it's worth paying for.

The Publishing group at The New York Times builds and maintains the content management system powering all Times platforms. We empower engineering teams to evolve digital experiences while providing creators with interconnected tools to uphold our journalistic mission.

The Content Data Products team governs the centralized, compliance-cleared platform for all Times content data. Partnering closely with the New AI Products and Platforms (NAPP) team—whose Discovery Engine (search, knowledge graph, and AI) relies on our infrastructure—we ensure our rich archive is ingested, structured, attributed, and indexed across all brands (News, Cooking, Wirecutter, The Athletic, Games) and multimedia formats (articles, video, interactives).

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager II to lead our content data warehouse roadmap and its feeding pipelines. Reporting to the Senior TPM for NAPP, you will partner with engineering to bring product strategy across editorial, AI, and partner requirements.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office 3 days/week.

Responsibilities

• Roadmap Execution: Lead the strategy and delivery for the content data warehouse and ingestion pipelines for new content types and metadata enrichment.
• Data Modeling & Indexing: Define specifications for modeling, ingesting, and indexing new content formats (e.g., video, interactives, acquired brand content) for search, retrieval, and AI use cases.
• Catalog Optimization: Partner with operations, legal, and teams to audit archival structures, address metadata gaps, and improve catalog completeness.
• Collaboration: Gather requirements, establish data contracts, prioritize features, and communicate roadmap progress and risks across engineering, design, editorial, and leadership.
• Product Delivery: Guide the end-to-end product development lifecycle from concept to launch with high quality.

Basic Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in technical product management with a focus on content data and platform infrastructure.
• 3+ years of experience launching complex software products in close partnership with engineering teams.
• Demonstrated experience with unstructured or multimedia data ingestion pipelines and downstream integrations (e.g., search indexes, analytics, ML/AI systems).
• Experience navigating ambiguous spaces, conduct research, define technical requirements, and experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences to diverse audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Science, Journalism, or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with search/retrieval systems and how structured metadata powers search engines and AI capabilities.
• Working knowledge of SQL, relational database architecture, and schema auditing.

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Compensation and Benefits For This Role

In addition to base salary, this role is also eligible for variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock. Benefits include medical, dental and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s), a company-matching 401(k) plan, employee stock purchase plan, paid vacation, paid sick days, paid parental leave, tuition reimbursement and professional development programs.

The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$120,000 - $142,000 USD

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