The Role Overview
As a Principal Product Manager in GenAI you will play a key role in meeting the biggest opportunities and threats generative AI represents for a news organisation. Your mission will be twofold. First to develop innovative tools for our newsroom, so journalists can tell stories that otherwise wouldn’t be told, in keeping with our editorial AI principles. Second, to consider new channels, consumption patterns and what is just now technically possible. You’ll create experiences for the FT audience that bring clear, attributable value. We’re not into AI for the sake of AI.
We are looking for a zero to one strategic thinker, who builds strong relationships to get things done and converts scepticism to support. You’re deeply conversant with the latest developments in generative AI and able to sift the signal from the noise. You’re excited and optimistic about what AI can achieve while acutely aware of its potential harm to end users. You are capable of keeping ethics at the centre of your product development approach and leading the market in defining what good looks like.
The FT has been working with generative and other AI technologies for some time, so you’ll have access to in house and third party infrastructure and tools, as well as other multi-disciplinary teams to collaborate with, reuse and share.
What you’ll bring to the role
- Experience in AI / ML product management
- Significant technical knowledge of the latest developments in GenAI and LLM technologies
- Experience taking multiple products from vision to successful adoption and evolution
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, able to make complex technical concepts easily understood
- Relationship builder who brings disparate groups together to get the best out of them
- Learning mentality and curiosity
- Track record of creative problem solving to get things done at pace
Desirable
- Experience working in or with newsrooms
- Expertise in developing tools for content creation and distribution
- Understanding of ethical, safety and legal considerations related to AI
- Experience with complex data analysis and interpretation
Key Responsibilities
- Develop a product strategy to maximise the applied potential of GenAI and mitigate its biggest risks for a world-leading, trusted media organisation.
- Lead a cross-functional team to develop products for our readers and newsroom through all stages – from idea to scale.
- Partner with editorial, commercial, marketing and other teams to align on shared objectives and create impactful solutions.
- Manage the roadmap to balance innovation with practicality, ethics and safety of GenAI systems.
- Integrate new products and features with existing systems and processes to create end-to-end user experience.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends in technology and the news industry to incorporate them effectively and ethically into the evolving product plans.
- Create visibility of the team’s work and promote the merits of responsible GenAI adoption across the organisation.
FT Product Principles
- Be distinct. On newsstands, the FT jumps out. Build bold products that stand out from the competition. Make the most of our reputation for innovation, insight and integrity.
- Become indispensable. Our products are a platform for users’ success. Find out what they need and make that the focus of what you build. Make things that are essential and a joy to use.
- Provably brilliant. Go beyond good ideas. Find which changes will have the biggest impact, whether they’re ambitious experiments or tiny tweaks. Measure them. Use what you learn to make them even better.
- Products are partnerships. Embrace expertise from around the company and add it to your own; diverse perspectives lead to better products. Collaborate to solve.
- Build on every success (and failure). Needs and expectations change, so great products should evolve. Investigate, iterate, and repeat. Strive for simpler; prune or retire things when they’ve served their purpose.