What are the responsibilities and job description for the Technical Product Manager, Data Platforms position at The New York Times?
Mission Overview & Responsibilities:
The Data Platform Mission aims to empower the organization to access and use data to answer important questions, power user experiences, and to make strategic decisions.
We are looking for a Technical Product Manager that can help develop the product management function within Data Platform. You will partner with many different teams and roles to develop data products, capabilities, and technologies. This role is based in our New York City office in Times Square.
As a Technical Product Manager, you'll work with teams of engineers, data scientists, and analysts to build a strategy for improving end-to-end data infrastructure to make collecting data, processing it, and using it to provide data-driven decisions and experiences as efficient as possible. You will create impact through reusable, extensible, and scalable platform capabilities that can address different use cases.
You will:
- Partner with data leaders across the organization to create a coordinated data products roadmap.
- Deliver data products across many domains that are easy-to-use, understandable, of high quality, and improve data-driven decision-making across the organization.
- Deliver data products through experiences that enable data analysts, scientists, product managers, and others to discover and consume information about our content and business.
- Establish data product lifecycle and processes needed to deliver high quality data products.
- Partner with Missions, teams, and individuals across the organization to understand their data and analytics needs.
- Collaborate with product and engineering teams to handle new requests, prioritize work, communicate progress, and deliver impactful work.
- Deliver iterative products that drive incremental value, enabling quick feedback from stakeholders wherever possible.
- Use qualitative and quantitative methods to measure the impact of your work.
- 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.
- This role reports to the VP of Data Platforms Product.
Basic Qualifications:
- 2 years of experience designing and building data products as a product manager or equivalent role.
- Track record implementing complex data systems applying supporting data analysis, reasoning, and optimization as part of the decision-making process.
- Experience in data handling approaches and technologies.
- Understanding of data governance, data modeling, data pipelines, and data infrastructure.
- Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Background in software development, engineering, data science, or analytics.
- Hands-on experience developing data products.
- Familiarity with data querying languages and technologies (ex: SQL, python, BigQuery, AWS, and Spark).
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