The Economist Group - Principal Product Manager - Discovery and Personalisation
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Requirements
• Builder: You have owned and shipped complex search, discovery, recommendation or navigation systems in content-rich products. • Product-led: Strong judgement in defining strategy, translating it into roadmaps, and delivering outcomes through cross-functional teams. • Data-informed: Comfortable working with data scientists on ML-driven systems, evaluation frameworks and experimentation. • Editorially-aware: Confident balancing user intent, algorithmic optimisation and editorial integrity. • Listener: Adept at understanding the needs of editorial, engineering, design and senior business stakeholders. • Communicator: Able to explain complex systems and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Pragmatic: A bias for focused, high-impact delivery in lean teams, balancing ambition with operational realities. • Humble and collaborative: Comfortable learning, iterating and working across disciplines in a fast-moving environment. • Domain knowledge • Domain knowledge • Search and discovery systems, including semantic retrieval, ranking and evaluation. • Generative AI and conversational best-practices. • Metrics for discovery quality, relevance, user understanding and trust. • Experience with subscription or habit-forming digital products. • 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 vision and roadmap for Search & Discovery across web and app. • Define how The Economist’s journalism is structured, indexed and represented for on-platform discovery. • Lead the evolution of keyword and semantic search, including relevance, ranking and result quality. • Own browse-led discovery and personalisation systems, including recommendations and ranking logic that support habit formation without narrowing perspectives. • Establish clear principles for editorial authority, transparency and explainability in search and discovery experiences. • Partner closely with Editorial teams to ensure discovery reflects journalistic judgement, trust and breadth, and making the right evaluation and feedback loops. • Work with data science on the definition, evaluation and iteration of ranking and recommendation models and signals. • Collaborate closely with Web and App teams to ensure consistent, high-quality implementation of search and discovery experiences. • Define and track success metrics related to findability, exploration depth, relevance, satisfaction, habit formation and trust. • Communicate strategy, priorities and performance clearly to senior stakeholders across product, editorial and technology.
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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