Senior Product Manager (Membership) Full Time

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Job Description

We are Technology: a department that has people and product at its heart. We use technology to innovate and lead the global conversation on the future of journalism and storytelling. We proudly are part of TechCharterUK as over 27% of our Tech roles are filled by gender minorities.

Your team: The Sun is one of the UK’s strongest brands and, like all media organisations, is having to adapt rapidly to overcome the uncertainties of a fast-moving digital world. Our website The Sun is more than a newspaper. It is an instigator, an entertainer, a cultural reference point, a finger on the pulse, a daily relationship. The Sun product team owns several digital products across the brand, including; Sun Savers, Sun Web and Mobile Apps, and the Sun Digital Newspaper.

Your role: Working in the Sun product team, you will be responsible for our Membership products, in the discovery and implementation of newand existing revenue streams that support the business strategy.

You will work across a number of existing products, expanding our subscriber and registration reach.

You will collaborate closely with business stakeholders to implement features and improvements that are in line with the overall business and product strategies, using data at the heart of your decisions and test and learn as your methodology.

You will manage as well as coach and mentor a product team that will support you in delivering the product roadmap, allowing you to focus on wider product strategy and supporting the Head of Product in shaping the future of the products.

Day to day you will:

End to end strategic management and delivery of products in line with business missions

Manage a membership based development roadmap, providing options to stakeholder groups in order to gain approval

Prioritise requests in order to achieve the greatest business value, with efficiency of time

Build and own stakeholder relationships across all levels

Work with the wider technology teams as a key stakeholder in the delivery of the joined up technology roadmap

Advise on digital product capabilities and new technologies through your thorough knowledge of the market

Closely work with the Business Analysts to ensure they have an understanding of requirements at an early stage

Coach/mentor direct reports to correctly prioritise deliverables according to highest business value

What we’re looking for from you:

Relevant experience on registration and subscription based products is essential for the role

High degree of technical acumen

Significant and demonstrable experience in leading and delivering complex digital products in the relevant field

Able to deliver to tight timescales, to innovate and ‘think outside the box’ to deliver products and solutions that meet customers stated requirements

Strong communication, interpersonal and relationship management skills to C Level Executives

Demonstrable leadership and influencing skills at a senior level

Take part in wider Tech Team Communities

Check out our latest blogs

We are News UK: 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, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp

Life at News: At News UK our people are our heartbeat – they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We champion diversity and inclusion, we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting the Health and Wellbeing of our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.