Product Lead - London, United Kingdom - dmg::media

dmg::media

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Product Lead (Contract)

Location:
dmg:media Headquarters - London

Position:
Contract (Maternity Cover)

Job Introduction
We are hiring a contract Maternity cover MailOnline Product Lead.

The role is accountable for building and effective delivery of key elements of the product strategy for MailOnline - one of the most used websites and apps in the world.

The role will achieve this by owning, building and managing key parts of the product roadmap that;
- grows our audience, both through finding new audiences and improving engagement of our existing ones by partnering with editorial, UX and data,
- delivers commercial benefit through revenue growth and effective cost management,
- builds an intuitive user experience,
- and is delivered in a predictable and reliable way.

These goals will require partnering deeply with our editorial, commercial, design, data, finance, and audience development teams.
- creating and running growth initiatives
- establishing and maintaining structure around product processes to ensure delivery against targets
- building productive working relationships and communicating with senior stakeholders
- comfortable in a news environment and be resilient and able to manage change.

Experience within the wider media and/or publishing industry is required; demonstrable experience of working in a product role on consumer and advertising facing digital products to drive revenue and engagement growth is also necessary.

Main Responsibilities

Building and delivering dmg media's outcome focused elements of MailOnline product strategy and roadmap with a specific focus on engagement driven initiatives e.g. community building.
Building and managing the relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to achieve the aims set out in the roadmap.
Communicate and evangalise the product strategy across the organisation.
Defining goal and feature requirements that ensure the needs of the reader and business are met.
Taking accountability for the user experience of features the team builds.

Person Specification

Demonstrable experience of driving engagement and revenue growth in digital media businesses
Transformational and transactional levels of work. For example, comfortable at both ends of a spectrum including presenting strategic plans up to executive level and working with delivery teams to ensure fine details of digital experiences work as expected.
Comfortable using qualitative and quantitative data to influence decision making
Collaborating with a range of stakeholders, ideally including editorial, business and marketing, technology and delivery and understanding how communication approaches and styles need to be adapted for each stakeholder
Driving change and transformation within longrunning businesses and able to independently establish networks across them
Working a variety of roadmap and product development tools
Working in demanding environments that require strong time management and prioritisation skills.

About dmg:
media
- "dmg media's brands deliver highly engaging, trusted content to millions of loyal customers around the globe, 24-hours a day, seven days a week. The Mail brand reaches one in two Brits every month and is officially the best-read, most recognised, most engaged newsbrand in the country.*_
- _Together, Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, MailOnline, Mail+, Metro, , i and reach more than 10.1m people daily in the UK.*_
- _Globally, dmg media's brands reach 190M unique browsers every month across its domains and apps.**_
- _Our newsbrands maintain an unwavering commitment to uncovering the stories that matter most to our readers, ensuring that we remain experts at delivering relevant and insightful content._
- _In October, the Mail became the largest news publisher on TikTok with over 7- million followers._
- _PAMCo H2 2023_
- **GA 2023 September"_

**Our Commitment