Senior Product Manager - Content & Metadata

About Us

Here at the FT, gold-standard journalism is just the beginning. 500-people strong, our Product & Tech team keeps us ahead of the ever-changing digital landscape by delivering cutting-edge products to over one million digital subscribers every day. Our plans for growth rely on a diverse, dedicated and dynamic group of product, tech, delivery and data specialists - everyone’s welcome in this friendly, forward-thinking team. And with entrepreneurial spirit, intelligence and opportunity at every turn, there’s no limits to where your FT career will take you.

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The Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Manager in one of the FT’s most critical and exciting platform areas - Content & Metadata. 

You will be responsible for a growing portfolio of platform capabilities and services that enables the publishing, annotating, and ultimately the discoverability of FT’s award winning content, as well as a portfolio of API products directly used by our B2B customers. These are fundamental parts of the FT’s digital product offering.

Key Responsibilities

• Take stock of the portfolio and work with your colleagues, stakeholders, and users to build and communicate a roadmap for it
• Identify and analyse sometimes highly ambiguous user needs and objectives and turn them into clear and concise product requirements and specifications
• Prioritise the new product development based on strategic value, user impact, and resource availability and be able to assess and react confidently to changes
• Build clear hypotheses for new experiments and launches and define corresponding metrics and KPIs to assess their achievement
• Take ownership of the quality of the products
• Constantly assess the state of the product portfolio and identify opportunities for simplification and decommissioning
• Be the champion of your team and domain across the whole FT

Required Experience

Essential

• Significant product management experience with a track record of managing successful products that are technical in nature - used by engineers and software systems
• Experience, knowledge, and interest in data technologies - more specifically, graph and NoSql databases, metadata management
• Entrepreneurial mindset and ability to orient yourself and others in a dynamic and fast-paced environment
• Metrics-driven, with previous experience in a culture of data-and fact-based decision-making
• Proven record of delivering products through collaboration with stakeholders and technical teams and improving key business metrics as a result
• Experience with producing strong business requirements and justifications
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Developed and proven influencing and negotiation skills
• Confident leading meetings and workshops
• Experience working in an Agile environment including as a product owner

Desirable

• Knowledge of the media industry and of how large media companies operate

What’s in it for you? Our Benefits

• Annual bonus scheme
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program
• 25 days annual paid leave
• Private Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave policy
• Food Vouchers
• Multisport Card
• Work-life balance and work from home practice
• Both in house and external training programs
• Your own training dedicated budget (for conferences, courses etc.)

Further Information

The FT is committed to providing an inclusive working environment for all. We are an equal opportunities employer who seeks to recruit and appoint the best talent regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We have implemented a hybrid working model and we also promote flexible working and will consider specific requests around flexibility for all roles where it can be accommodated. Please let us know if you require any adjustments as part of the application process or to enable you to attend an interview. If you would like to discuss your requirements, or have any questions, please send an email to [email protected] and a member of our team will be happy to help.