Digital Product Manager

Summary

The New Republic is seeking a detail-oriented Digital Product Manager to oversee digital product workflows from discovery through delivery and maintenance. The role coordinates developers, editorial and business stakeholders, and outside vendors while managing roadmaps, deployments, site optimization, and product protocols.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily and weekly stand-up meetings with the digital director and developers
• Create, update, and organize all Asana tickets in order to keep stakeholders informed of progress and to scope potential blocks in development
• Ensure developers understand their priorities at all times
• Act as liaison between the digital director and editorial and publishing stakeholders on the status of product builds
• Document developers’ monthly estimated and actual development hours for tickets
• Create and maintain detailed and sophisticated product roadmaps with large projects
• Coordinate daily deployments
• Document and report daily site speed, as well as other optimization details
• Report success of optimization touchpoints deployed on the website
• Enforce protocol standards for visual and editorial modifications for marketing, outreach, and engagement projects

Skills

• At least two years' experience with project and/or product management required
• Must have demonstrated ability to:
• Communicate technical issues to a nontechnical staff
• Handle multiple short- and long-term projects simultaneously
• Firmly enforce protocols across departments and outside vendors
• Quickly respond to staff technical queries via Slack and Asana
• Create clear agendas for meetings
• Must possess:
• Expert knowledge of Asana
• Familiarity and understanding of Google Analytics, Page Insights, and other analytical tools for web performance, and ability to obtain and interpret traffic analytics
• An understanding of front- and back-end development processes and execution
• Media experience or background preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• At least two years' experience with project and/or product management required
• Must have demonstrated ability to:
• communicate technical issues to a nontechnical staff
• handle multiple short- and long-term projects simultaneously
• firmly enforce protocols across departments and outside vendors
• quickly respond to staff technical queries via Slack and Asana
• create clear agendas for meetings
• Must possess:
• expert knowledge of Asana
• familiarity and understanding of Google Analytics, Page Insights, and other analytical tools for web performance, and ability to obtain and interpret traffic analytics
• an understanding of front- and back-end development processes and execution

Nice to Haves

• Media experience or background preferred