About the Role
The Apps Platform team is responsible for developing state-of-the-art native mobile applications. The Technical Product Manager will assess technical priorities, set the product roadmap, and partner with the engineering manager to report to senior product leadership, ensuring higher-level ambitions are met. This role is ideal for someone familiar with the Mobile Application market and upcoming changes in Mobile OS platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for the iOS and Android platform team, ensuring alignment with product development teams and balancing product priorities against platform capabilities.
- Collaborate with engineering, data, and other stakeholder teams to identify new platform opportunities.
- Prioritize team's work in conjunction with the engineering manager, balancing business requirements, technical needs, and UX.
- Identify upcoming changes in Mobile OS Platforms to maintain the Guardian’s Mobile Apps at the forefront of the mobile landscape.
- Identify ways the Apps Platform team can deliver value to end-users (app teams) by reducing cognitive load, maintenance overhead, and improving security, reliability, and operational excellence.
- Analyze user data and KPIs to identify areas for improvement and measure the impact of platform delivery on developer experience.
- Treat internal tools as products, defining users, gathering feedback, and sharing successes.
Requirements
- Extensive experience in technical product management, ideally within digital media, publishing, or commercial platforms.
- Proven technical product leadership abilities, including evidence of close partnership with engineering and data teams.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, capable of influencing across teams and functions.
- Ability to deeply understand engineer pain points.
- Data-informed mindset with experience using performance metrics to guide decision-making.
- Purpose-driven and sympathetic towards Guardian values.
Location
- Kings Cross
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Salary/Compensations
- Minimum salary for any full-time role is £30,000 per annum. Salary ranges are dependent on skills and experience.
Benefits
- 30 days of annual leave per year plus bank holidays.
- Option to purchase an additional 5 days of annual leave.
- Generous pension scheme: 5% employee contribution with 8-12% employer contribution.
- 2 volunteering days annually.
- Option of payroll giving.
- Season ticket loans available.
- Private healthcare.
- Life cover.
- Income protection.
- Eye tests.
- Optional dental insurance.
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies.
- Supportive policies for IVF, menopause, baby loss, and trans equality.
- Access to employee benefits platform for tailored health and wellbeing support.
- Free yoga and pilates classes.
- Corporate gym membership.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Canteen with views overlooking the Regents Canal.
- Access to a broad range of learning and development tools and solutions.
- Support for the pursuit of professional qualifications through vocational courses and apprenticeships.
About the Company
- A diverse and inclusive global organisation that delivers fearless, investigative journalism and holds power to account.
- Comprised of award-winning journalists, cutting-edge commercial professionals, and industry-leading digital experts.
- Offers a challenging and exciting environment for career development with a focus on training, growth, and fostering an inclusive culture.
- Became the first major media organisation to achieve B Corp status.
- Proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Actively encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in the UK media.
- Value and respect all differences (seen and unseen) in all people.
- Aspire to have inclusive working experiences and an environment that reflects the audience we serve.
- Ensure people have equal access to career development opportunities, their voices are heard, and can contribute to our future.
- Actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.
- All roles at the Guardian are open for everybody to apply.
- Provide support throughout the recruitment process, including making changes to help applications (e.g., accessible formats, personalized processes).
- Champion diversity of thought.
- Various employee forums provide a platform to use their voice to foster an inclusive workplace.
