Sr. Principal Product Manager: Audio

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About the Role:

As Senior Principal Product Manager for Audio/Video Platforms, you will lead the strategy for a capability vital across the entire Dow Jones portfolio, with a primary focus on consumer-facing B2C products like The Wall Street Journal. Your vision will empower users to engage with rich, high-quality media experiences, centered around the evolution of our mobile Media Center. This role involves tackling the complex challenges of media at scale, from advancing our mobile video discovery experiences to modernizing our podcast publishing capabilities. You will also deliver our live video product strategy, ensuring our platforms reliably deliver the premium, high-impact coverage our audiences expect. You will shape the future of audio and video across our portfolio, driving significant business value. This role reports to the VP of Product of Core Experience Platforms.

• Develop, own, and champion the overarching product strategy for a unified video and audio ecosystem that scales across our consumer surfaces, internal workflow tooling, and podcast distribution.
• Lead the integration and continuous improvement of media experiences across Dow Jones apps and web platforms, building a cohesive destination for media consumption.
• Drive engagement through modern discovery features, implementing automated tools that support multi-format publishing (such as vertical and horizontal video) and enable the rapid creation of video snippets.
• Elevate the subscriber experience by experimenting with and implementing interactive engagement hooks, such as subscriber-only commenting, real-time Live Q&A, and live polls.
• Establish and centralize video landing pages to prioritize active live events and streamline video discovery.
• Optimize internal workflows to drastically reduce setup time for live events, replacing highly manual processes with scalable, automated solutions.
• Partner cross-functionally with the newsroom, consumer product, and advertising teams to build automated messaging strategies (push/email) that drive traffic during key media moments and test new monetization formats.

Spain - Barcelona

Full time

Job_Req_54102

Job Description

About the Team:

Our Technology team drives the evolution of our Technology, Engineering, Data, Product and User Experience functions. With a keen focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions, we shape the digital landscape for our customers, readers and users. From revolutionizing visuals to optimizing tools and harnessing the power of data, mobile, video and social platforms, our team is committed to providing a seamless and immersive experience across all touchpoints. Collaborating closely with our newsrooms and strategic partners, we spearhead the development of groundbreaking products and technologies.

About the Role:

As Senior Principal Product Manager for Audio/Video Platforms, you will lead the strategy for a capability vital across the entire Dow Jones portfolio, with a primary focus on consumer-facing B2C products like The Wall Street Journal. Your vision will empower users to engage with rich, high-quality media experiences, centered around the evolution of our mobile Media Center. This role involves tackling the complex challenges of media at scale, from advancing our mobile video discovery experiences to modernizing our podcast publishing capabilities. You will also deliver our live video product strategy, ensuring our platforms reliably deliver the premium, high-impact coverage our audiences expect. You will shape the future of audio and video across our portfolio, driving significant business value. This role reports to the VP of Product of Core Experience Platforms.

You Will

• Develop, own, and champion the overarching product strategy for a unified video and audio ecosystem that scales across our consumer surfaces, internal workflow tooling, and podcast distribution.
• Lead the integration and continuous improvement of media experiences across Dow Jones apps and web platforms, building a cohesive destination for media consumption.
• Drive engagement through modern discovery features, implementing automated tools that support multi-format publishing (such as vertical and horizontal video) and enable the rapid creation of video snippets.
• Elevate the subscriber experience by experimenting with and implementing interactive engagement hooks, such as subscriber-only commenting, real-time Live Q&A, and live polls.
• Establish and centralize video landing pages to prioritize active live events and streamline video discovery.
• Optimize internal workflows to drastically reduce setup time for live events, replacing highly manual processes with scalable, automated solutions.
• Partner cross-functionally with the newsroom, consumer product, a