Technical Product Manager II, Developer Productivity

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Office: New York, NY

Department: Product Management

Job Description

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The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

The New York Times Developer Platforms Mission remit is to build a comprehensive developer platform that is focused on performance, scalability and reliability across both client and backend platforms. We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to work closely with internal teams across The Times to understand product needs, and collaborate with engineering teams to drive the product roadmap for a centralized application delivery platform offering CICD capabilities.

The ideal candidate has a proven technical understanding of DevOps, Platform Engineering, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and experience managing CICD at scale.

Join our Developer Platform (DevP) Mission to support 500 engineers across 90 product engineering teams within the Times. These teams develop a range of experiences, from interactive newsroom tools to storytelling and publishing platforms, and standalone products like Games, Cooking and The Athletic. Our goal is to empower all product engineering teams to focus on delivering new features and new AI workflows without worrying about infrastructure complexities.

As a Technical Product Manager-II, you'll play a key role in building a best-in-class build, test and deploy experience for all NYT developers. You'll collaborate with a diverse product team focused on developer experience to define, develop, and launch innovative Application Delivery and Developer Productivity solutions. You will report to the Vice President of Product, Developer Experience. This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters. You can typically expect to come into the office two days per week.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the product strategy, roadmap and adoption for the application delivery platform and CI/CD capabilities
• Identify and pursue impactful opportunities aligned with NYT developer needs and technical capabilities
• Champion CI/CD best practices to improve developer productivity across the enterprise
• Write product briefs outlining business, user and platform requirements to shape objectives and related initiatives
• Prioritize platform capabilities based on qualitative user feedback and quantitative platform metrics
• Communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences through launch announcements, roadmap status updates, and platform performance reports
• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• 4+ years product management experience in a large enterprise cloud environment
• Proven ability to build product roadmaps from conception to launch, driving the product vision, defining go-to-market strategy, and leading design discussions
• Working knowledge of CI/CD practices, tooling, and technologies
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong technical understanding of DevOps, Platform engineering, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and experience with relevant tools at scale (e.g. Github Actions, Drone, ArgoCD)
• Familiarity with cloud native concepts and developer productivity metrics (DORA, SPACE, DX)
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Demonstrate expertise in CI/CD and application delivery concepts (e.g. build performance and quality, artifact management, automated testing, Gitops, Continuous Delivery, and Progressive delivery)
  
  

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$120,000—$140,000 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.

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