Key Responsibilities

Set the vision and commercial product strategy for monetisation products across The Times, working closely with our Commercial Director, aligning the Product Managers for Monetisation, and with the wider Product team.
Articulate the tribe vision and roadmap, prioritising where squads can deliver the most impact across Diversification, Experience, Travel, and other areas of Product that monetisation manifests itself in. To both business and technology stakeholders.
Define and deliver commercial roadmaps with clear prioritisation, balancing short-term revenue opportunities with longer-term sustainability.
Collaborate across domains:
With the Monetisation squads to ensure strategies extend into all areas
With the Travel Product Manager to align commercial priorities across Times Travel Retail.
With all other Product tribes and squads to ensure Monetisation is considered in all upcoming features and initiatives.
With Product Design and Business Analysts to validate and deliver user-centric solutions that balance revenue growth with audience needs.
With Ad-Tech and commercial engineering to understand the ad stack that our products are supported by, and how best to leverage them and identify areas of opportunity.
Drive experimentation, championing an evidence-led approach to monetisation by validating or invalidating assumptions through A/B testing, prototyping, and customer insight.
Influence and align stakeholders, working with senior leadership, editorial, commercial, and engineering teams to ensure monetisation initiatives are integrated seamlessly and strategically.
Mentor and line-manage Product Managers, supporting them to optimise their product development process.
Agree shared OKRs with business teams outside Product to ensure end-to-end success of initiatives.
Report on data and progress proactively, keeping stakeholders informed on roadmap outcomes and impact.
Encourage best practices across the product development lifecycle, identifying opportunities to improve how problems are framed, refined, and solved.
Create alignment with other Principal Product Managers across The Times to make the best decisions for the product as a whole.
Support the Head of Product in driving Product Organisation Maturity.
Contribute to the wider News UK Product community, sharing learnings, best practice, and helping to develop the Product function at News.

What we are looking for from you

Strong experience in a commercial advertising focussed Product role, with strong Ad Tech understanding.
Ability to work with and influence others to sell your vision and the product journey.
Proactiveness rather than reactiveness in identifying and tackling opportunities.
An experimental approach, focused on validating or invalidating assumptions to drive incremental impact.
Ability to define solutions with the support of teams, balancing roadmap priorities, delivery timeframes, and presenting well-defined business cases.
Strong decision-making, with the ability to justify priorities in collaboration with the Product team and wider stakeholders.
Experience working with Engineering to balance shared, common technology with the specific needs of the business.
A startup mindset, with the ability to be ‘T-shaped’ and find pragmatic ways to get things done.
An eye for spotting marketing opportunities and a keen interest in industry developments.

Principal Product Manager - Monetisation at The Times - PM Job Opening