The Times
Senior Product Manager
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Your team: The Times Media (Product Team) is organized around three core pillars of The Times product: Customer, Content, and Monetisation. You will be joining the Monetisation programme, which focuses on non-subscription digital revenue and is divided into three key areas: Commerce, Diversification, and Advertising Experience (AdEx). As part of this dynamic group, you will lead the AdEx Tribe, driving strategy across the tribe while directly guiding the Direct Advertising Squad to maximize growth and value across our digital ecosystem.
Your role: As our Senior Product Manager for Advertising Experience, you will guide our commercial product strategy, setting a clear vision for advertising products across The Times. Reporting directly to the Principal Product Manager, Monetisation, you will sit at the intersection of product, design, engineering, and commercial teams. This role is an exciting opportunity to balance short-term revenue opportunities with long-term digital sustainability, building high-impact solutions that elevate user experiences across our apps and websites.
Day to day you will:
- Set the vision and commercial product strategy for advertising products across The Times, aligning the Advertising Experience Tribe with broader product and commercial goals.
- Define and deliver prioritized commercial advertising roadmaps that balance immediate revenue opportunities with long-term user experience health.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Editorial, Product Design, and Commercial teams to co-design native, high-yield advertising experiences directly within new content templates, ensuring commercial goals respect reader trust.
- Partner with Commercial Tech teams as a strategic counterpart to guide our underlying ad stack and drive scalable, modular platform capabilities.
- Drive continuous experimentation and an evidence-led approach to advertising by validating or invalidating assumptions through A/B testing and customer insights.
- Own high-impact OKRs and metrics across AdEx, proactively tracking performance data to communicate targets, opportunities, and results clearly to stakeholders.
- Foster product excellence across the advertising function, identifying opportunities to elevate how complex monetization problems are framed, refined, and solved.
What we're looking for from you:
- Demonstrated experience in a commercial advertising-focused product role, paired with a solid understanding of Ad Tech.
- Proven experience collaborating closely with engineering teams to navigate technical execution and balance shared technology infrastructure with unique business needs.
- Deep structural understanding of digital yield drivers, including eCPMs, first-party audience data segmentation, and the nuances of direct premium sponsorships versus programmatic backfill.
- Strong literacy in the modern privacy and identity landscape, including tracking constraints and first-party data collection strategies.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, demonstrated by your ability to influence and align cross-functional leaders across editorial, commercial, and technical domains behind a unified vision.
- An analytical, experimental mindset focused on framing, refining, and solving complex problems through data-backed testing.
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News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
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At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
- Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
- Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
- ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
- Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
- Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
- Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
- Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
- A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
- Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year
We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.
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