Job Description

Job Description

About NYT Cooking:

This is a vital moment in the life of The New York Times. We have declared ourselves a subscription-first company, staking our future on producing journalism worth paying for and developing deeper relationships with our subscribers. NYT Cooking, with a growing user base of over 500,000 subscribers, is an essential part of this strategy.

NYT Cooking's mission is to enrich people's lives by making them better, more confident cooks. We do this by helping our users discover the world's best recipes, save and organize their cooking life, and serve as an approachable guide in the kitchen. It's an exciting time to join this team. We are focused on defining and delivering on our next phase of growth and we need an experienced and passionate product leader to help us get there.

About the Role

NYT Cooking is looking for a passionate, data-driven Product Manager to lead its Discovery & Personalization Team. Helping users explore and find the most relevant recipes is at the core of the Cooking experience -- you will drive the strategy and execution of discovery and personalization initiatives in partnership with design, engineering, data science and newsroom -- to help users find the content they need and cook with NYT Cooking more frequently. You will work with the algorithmic machine learning team, combining user research and experimentation to help users search and discover the recipes they need at the right time. You will have had extensive experience working with data and can help use Discovery as a vehicle to improve NYT Cooking's user engagement. You will report to the Engagement Senior Product Manager.

What You'll Do:

* Chart the discovery and personalization vision and strategy for NYT Cooking based on deep analysis and understanding of our user base

* Work with Product, Engineering, Design, Editorial, Data, and Marketing to define and execute on a roadmap

* Oversee search and discovery surfaces

* Test hypotheses through experimentation and improve our recommendation/ML models through a close partnership with the Machine Learning and Data Science team

* Advocate for the user always, continue to identify, understand our user base and address their needs

* Continuously evaluate where personalization and discovery can improve growth and engagement on Cooking. Partner with other product managers to support personalizations for their surfaces.

* Conduct ongoing competitive analysis of other sites, apps, and products to identify ways to improve discovery and personalization

* Stay curious and informed about market and follow industry trends, specifically in machine learning and personalization

You should apply if you:

* Have experience leading and communicating with diverse teams (engineering, design, data), defining roadmaps, and developing successful products

* Are curious and empathetic, have experience identifying user needs and delivering value

* Can create hypothesis-driven work informed by data and product sense

* Have experience setting goals, evaluating tradeoffs and can rally a team towards a vision and outcome

* 4+ years of product management experience, and ideally experience with search, discovery or algorithmic features/products

Preferred qualifications:

* Experience working on a subscription-based product

* Have worked on search, discovery or algorithmic features/products

* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Comfortable working with remote teammates.

* An interest in food / cooking

Benefits and Perks:

* Make an impact by supporting original, independent and deeply reported journalism.

* We provide competitive health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families.

* We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.

* We offer competitive parental leave.

* We are committed to career development and ongoing learning, and provide employees $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.

* We have frequent panel discussions and talks by a wide variety of newsmakers and industry leaders.

* Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.

* Kitchen Days! We encourage everyone on our team to take one day out of every quarter out of the office, cooking a recipe from anywhere.

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics. The New York Times Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local Fair Chance laws.