We are looking for an experienced and passionate Director of Product who will lead our talented team of digital product managers and bring our ‘digital-first’ strategy to life. The Product Director will lead GNM’s global product strategy and will be responsible for identifying, defining and launching new online consumer products and services. The successful candidate in this role will work in close partnership with other business units such that she or he can effectively manage and build a world class portfolio of digital products and experiences that connect our audience with GNM’s global editorial, membership and commercial efforts.
If this sounds like you -- and you know how to motivate a mid-sized team, have solid communications skills, posses a passion for building world class consumer facing products, and want to solve complex problems that make clear and real-world impact in people’s lives, join us!
In return we offer you fantastic job satisfaction and the chance to work in an open and challenging environment where you’ll be given respect, authority and autonomy -- and expected to trust your team with the same.
Essential duties and responsibilities:
Leading a dynamic, world class product team tasked with delivering a portfolio of best in class products, to accelerate GNM’s global editorial, membership and commercial positions
Ensuring smooth running of this team, including staff management and mentoring, delivery and budget management.
Guiding and executing GNM’s global product strategy including driving development of next-generation features, products and services such that the Guardian remains at the forefront across existing and emerging platforms.
Developing deep understanding of our users and how they use our products.
Understanding new and existing markets and ensuring robust objective, results based decisions. Identify potential KPIs for future products and measure success post launch
Accountability and ownership to define and maintain the Guardian’s overall digital roadmap in partnership with key stakeholders in Editorial, Membership and Commercial areas.
Building inclusive relationships with digital product managers, providing expertise internally and externally. Participation in conferences and other public forums to share the global digital vision of GNM
Key Skills & Experience:
The successful candidate will be bright, creative, open minded, and articulate. They will possess strong managerial skills, in-depth product knowledge, delivery, and communication skills with great business instincts and people skills
Must have a strong track record of data-driven decision making. Strong ability to create new knowledge, synthesise data, condense large amounts of information, simplify difficult concepts, make sense of ambiguity, organise the unstructured and to present in an easily consumed fashion
- Experience in working in an agile development environment
- Demonstrable experience in user-centred thinking
- Previous large team management also essential
They will be passionate about the Guardian’s global editorial mission and have a deep sense of the organisation’s values. They must have real passion for the role of journalism in society
Demonstrable experience in fast-paced development delivery – that balances frequency and very high quality product
Experience in web and mobile consumer platforms essential together with experience in selecting and implementing mission-critical, highly scalable software systems.
Strong communications skills with great business instincts and people skills the promote inclusion and collaboration
Ability to build credibility with and effectively influence senior executives from a variety of disciplines.
Demonstrable ability to inspire multi-disciplined teams to deliver results.
Industry credibility and reputation
Ideally you will have both publishing and commerce experience on the web and mobile.
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