The Economist Group - Product Manager - Audio
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Requirements
• Executor: You have shipped audio or media product features in a consumer app or digital platform, and you know how to get things done in a lean cross-functional team. • Executor: • Detail-oriented: You care about the craft of listening, noticing when playback continuity, buffering or interface clarity is slightly off. • Detail-oriented: • Subscription-minded: • Data-informed: Comfortable defining success metrics, running experiments, and using data to make and defend product decisions. • Data-informed: • Editorially-aware: Confident working with editorial colleagues, understanding their constraints, and balancing listener experience with journalistic standards. • Editorially-aware: • Collaborative: Works well within a small squad and across engineering, design and data science. • Collaborative: • Domain knowledge • Audio product experience including in-app and web players, narration pipelines, podcast hosting and distribution. • Text-to-speech technologies and their application in editorial content products. • Engagement and retention metrics for audio formats. • Multi-platform product delivery across web, app and third-party platforms. • Enthusiasm for The Economist's mission, journalism and global audience. • Working Arrangements • The majority of our roles operate on a hybrid working pattern, with 3+ days office attendance required. • AI usage for your application • We are an innovative organisation that encourages the use of technology. We recognise that candidates may utilise AI tools to support with their job application process. However, it is essential that all information you provide truthfully and accurately reflects your own experience, skills, and qualifications.
Responsibilities
• Own the listening experience across our app, web and third-party platforms, including player quality, playback reliability and the end-to-end listener journey. • Lead delivery of article narration and text-to-speech scaling in partnership with Editorial and production teams. • Manage podcast hosting and distribution via Acast, and our presence on listening platforms including Spotify and Apple Podcasts. • Define and track success metrics for audio engagement, listening depth and habit formation. • Work closely with Engineering on audio infrastructure decisions including streaming performance, content delivery and third-party integrations. • Partner with the Principal PM to feed insights from audio into the broader Audio and Video roadmap. • Communicate progress, risks and priorities clearly to stakeholders across product, editorial and engineering.
Benefits
• Our benefits package is designed to support your wellbeing, growth, and work-life balance. It includes a highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan, private health insurance, and 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program. • We also offer a range of lifestyle benefits, including our Work From Anywhere program, which allows you to work from any location where you have the legal right to do so for up to 25 days per year. In addition, we provide generous annual and parental leave, as well as dedicated days off for volunteering and even for moving home. • You will also be given free access to all The Economist content, including an online subscription, our range of apps, podcasts and more.
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