Senior Product Manager

Company Description

The Daily Beast delivers award-winning original reporting and sharp opinion from big personalities in the arenas of politics, pop-culture, world news, and more. Fiercely independent and armed with irreverent intelligence, we now reach more than 20 million readers per month. We are based in New York and are an operating business of IAC.

Job Description

What we can offer you

The Daily Beast (TDB) is seeking a Senior Product Manager to help build the lightweight Publishing Tool Kit.

As a member of our product team, you’ll lead working groups for our key initiatives alongside engineering, design and stakeholders from the newsroom and business teams.

You need to be confident working on a lean, nimble team, growing a product from MVP to maturity at a fast clip. Your success will be measured by your ability to create products that delight our 20M users, drive value for our fast-paced business, and help showcase the award-winning stories produced by our newsroom.

While working on this team you’ll:

• Help set product strategy, prioritize features and develop and ship high-quality products in coordination with stakeholders, lead designer and engineers.

• Collaborate with stakeholders across the business, newsroom and technology teams to clarify and prioritize their needs and user needs.

• Work closely with the in-house analytics team to define KPIs that keep decisions data-informed and tied to our strategic objectives.

• Consistently and clearly communicate product priorities, project status and impact to stakeholders.

Qualifications

What you bring to us

• Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently.

• Strong time management skills, allowing for comfort with context-shifting between multiple projects that need to move forward at the same time.

• Passionate about the media ecosystem and the evolution of storytelling on the web and the revenue model that can support it.  Prior experience working on a digital-first product with a wide range of revenue streams is a plus.

• Comfort using data, competitive research and internal feedback to build business cases for upcoming products in the roadmap. Prior experience with Google Analytics and Google Optimize, a plus.

• 3-5 years experience working as a hands-on product manager with a team of in-house engineers.

Additional Information

Why work for us?

The Daily Beast is a globally recognized publication at IAC HQ in pristine Chelsea in New York City. Being part of IAC, we are able to provide you some of the best in benefits. We offer discretionary vacation (as in take what you need with approval for all exempt and non-guild employees), tuition reimbursement, 401(k) matching, subsidized gym membership, stocked kitchens with snacks and drinks, and excuses to celebrate all the time! Work for us and work for something spectacular!

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please include answers to the following questions within your cover letter:

• If could you only use one app to consume news for the next 18 months, what would it be and why?

• Is it better to be good and one-day early, or perfect and one-day late?