Product Manager

**What’s the job?**

We have an exciting opportunity to join a digital product team managing some of the most well-known media brands across Australia. Whilst our focus is in the media landscape and building world-class products for our news audience, we take a broader approach to product optimisation by unpacking the ways in which our audience consumes content. Not limited to news content, we are focused on emerging digital consumption trends, across all content creator and distribution channels, to make sure we are delivering quality journalism in a format that suits our audience needs.

Reporting to the Head of Digital Product, Metro & Regionals, this role is responsible for leading and contributing to the strategy, delivery and execution of the product roadmap to enhance our Digital product offerings.

The Senior Product Manager will lead the execution of the digital product strategy and roadmap; driving prioritisation, gathering and validating requirements, collaborating with business stakeholders and staying across consumer and competitor trends. They will work side by side with product managers across all the NewsCorp brands and use data and insights to drive meaningful product outcomes that will increase subscriber engagement and create subscription growth opportunities.

The role will work closely with editorial, marketing, UX, Design, SEO, digital infrastructure, sales and developers to continually optimise our product suites across app and web, ensuring that both audience engagement and business outcomes are maximised at all times.

**What you’ll do**
- In this position you will be responsible for driving the digital product strategy and creating a clear and compelling vision for the team and stakeholders.
- You will ensure the successful delivery, execution and continued optimisation of our products to deliver the best in class engagement and functionality for our consumers, clients & audiences
- Collaborate with senior stakeholders to unpack business problems, provide expertise in product solutions, share insights into audience trends/engagement, influence company-level buy-in and bring them along on the product journey - from ideation to delivery.
- Maintain the product roadmap and transparency of priorities, allowing clear and tangible alignment to product and business outcomes.
- Use data and qualitative and quantitative insights to drive product decisions and align the business on priorities
- Foster a supportive and collaborative team environment where sharing of ideas, insights and expertise is sought out, to drive the best consumer and business outcomes.

**Who are you?**
- Experienced in product strategy, creating scalable product roadmaps and working with delivery teams to hit deadlines and achieve desired product outcomes
- You understand the importance of building strong relationships and are known as a trusted product expert
- You ‘get things done’. You are just as comfortable defining the product strategy as you are with ground level execution, working alongside the UX, design and engineers to get into the detail and remove roadblocks.
- Strong analytical skills. The ability to build reports, understand the data and most importantly, derive valuable insights from data to guide product decisions.
- Experience driving complex, cross-functional product initiatives across several dependent teams/platforms that drive high quality outcomes at speed.
- Strong strategic thinker and problem solver
- A champion for the consumer, you are driven to constantly iterate and improve the product experience and listen to your consumers.
- You are comfortable working with opposing business views and priorities and strive to deliver business needs, without jeopardising the user experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Previous experience as a senior product manager or a strong product manager looking to move into a senior role

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

- Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
- Time off - News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
- Helping you grow - Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion -focused education series) and recognition
- Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money
- Perks & discounts - Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
- Giving back - Make a difference to our communities.
- Inclusive workplace benefits