VP, Product & Design — Digital Media & AI Innovation

Versant; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 310,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Versant Media is seeking a VP of Product for CNBC to shape the strategy and execution of digital products. You will lead product managers and designers, partner with CPTO and executives, and embed AI into workflows to enhance customer value and growth.

You will guide a talented team to craft ambitious roadmaps, validate ideas using data, and ensure the product vision aligns with the needs of retail investors and premium audiences.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7-10 years of product management experience with at least 5 years leading a product and design team
• Demonstrated ability to drive product management, product planning and roadmaps, including launching new products
• Proven understanding of web, mobile apps and OTT products in the retail investing, fintech or consumer (B2C) space and/or in media and publishing
• Strong product judgement and product taste with proven ability to hire and coach for that
• Deep understanding of the retail investor space and the tools and competitors in the space
• Strong understanding of how to build features using AI, including chatbots, LLM prompting for summarization or insights
• Knowledge of building personalized experiences including content recommendations and personalized alerts

Responsibilities

• Work with the CPTO and executive stakeholders to craft a product strategy for CNBC’s digital products
• Use the business and product strategy to come up with feature ideas that are then tested with consumers and validated using existing data and insights
• Craft a roadmap of features that is ambitious and communicate that roadmap to stakeholders in a transparent way
• Hire, motivate and performance manage a team of product managers and product designers
• Coordinate the roadmap with the technology team to ensure we are building features the right way, but also allowing time to build new capabilities, pay down technical debt and bug fix
• Ensure that the product and design work is rooted in customer insights
• Transform how the product team works with AI built into the workflow to remove grunt work and speed up requirements and spec writing

Skills

Product management

Team leadership

Roadmaps & launches

AI features

Customer insights

Stakeholder management

Retail investor knowledge

Job description

Versant Media is seeking a VP of Product for CNBC to shape the strategy and execution of digital products. You will lead product managers and designers, partner with CPTO and executives, and embed AI into workflows to enhance customer value and growth.

You will guide a talented team to craft ambitious roadmaps, validate ideas using data, and ensure the product vision aligns with the needs of retail investors and premium audiences.