Lead Product Manager - Data Marts

News UK; London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000

Job description

News UK Lead Product Manager – Data Marts in London/Hybrid, United Kingdom

Location: London/Hybrid

Department: Technology

Salary Details: Not Specified

Advertising End Date: 11 Apr 2025

Title: Lead Product Manager – Data Marts

Contract: Permanent

We are News UK Technology, a diverse and talented family dedicated to innovation, storytelling, and capturing the future of media through technology. Committed to career development and wellbeing, we advocate for healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities to grow and thrive.

Team: We are Data – a programme comprising agile, cross-functional teams based across London, Sofia, and Bangalore. We focus on capturing, managing, and utilising customer, clickstream, and content data to drive growth and increase revenue for our users. Our users include newsroom editors, marketing, advertising, and product teams associated with our world-leading digital and print publications.

Our mission is to grow data platforms, build front-end products, and create predictive models that power News UK. We strongly believe in providing clear direction while empowering our teams with autonomy to innovate. We seek people who are passionate about data, willing to take risks with bold ideas, and curious to question everything while embracing exciting challenges.

Role: We are seeking a Lead Product Manager – Data Marts to own and refine the strategy for data marts, establishing them as accessible products in their own right. This role is pivotal in addressing the evolving demands for democratised, reliable, and consistent data across News UK’s key data domains: Content, Commercial, Customer, and Clickstream.

You will act as the conduit between technical and business stakeholders, supporting Data Architects and Engineers in implementing the data mart strategy while ensuring standards are met. Additionally, you will lead and line manage a team of three Product Managers, contributing to their growth and supporting the Data team’s expansion into AI-powered, user-facing data products.

Day to day you will:

1. Establish data marts as standalone products with clear goals, roadmaps, and supporting documentation, while advocating for data warehouse outputs to the business.
2. Prioritise a dynamic backlog with Business Analysts and Delivery Managers to deliver business value and balance BAU requests with progress towards target architectures.
3. Lead discovery processes and quarterly planning cycles, addressing key dependencies and incorporating long-term data platform needs into forward plans.
4. Utilise lean and agile principles to efficiently deliver warehouse additions and changes, ensuring governance and privacy standards are upheld.
5. Oversee internal data squads, ensuring clear ownership of warehouse initiatives and facilitating communication across technology and business teams.
6. Collaborate with the Data Architecture team to evaluate new data warehouse ingestion requests, identify opportunities for new data marts, and implement KPIs to monitor progress.
7. Co-lead the Data Product function, including the development of Data Product Managers and establishing unified principles and standards for the discipline.
8. Partner with the Head of UX & Design to enhance core product skills and support the team’s expansion into bespoke user-facing products.

What we are looking for in you:

1. Confident SQL user with the ability to work effectively with data.
2. Strong ability to explain technical data concepts in simple terms to diverse audiences.
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of evangelising technical concepts.
4. Proven ability to translate technical efforts into meaningful business value.
5. Function leadership and/or line management experience.
6. Previous experience of product management, primarily with a technical focus.
7. Solid understanding of ETL processes, data schemas, and data modelling concepts.
8. Experience with agile frameworks and championing lean development approaches.
9. Clear understanding of data governance and privacy principles.
10. Experience with Google BigQuery is preferred.

If you believe you have the skills and passion to succeed, even if you don’t meet every requirement on the list, we encourage you to apply. We value potential just as much as experience and are eager to hear from individuals who are enthusiastic about learning and growing with us.

At News UK, we know the value of working together, which is why we operate a hybrid working policy with a minimum of three days a week in the office. Being in the office allows us to collaborate, innovate, and thrive as a team in our vibrant and dynamic workspace. Some roles may require more office-based days depending on the nature of the position, so we encourage you to speak with your recruiter to learn more about what’s required for your role.

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, Talk and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multiplatform 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

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities - attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

Some of our benefits include:

1. Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
2. Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
3. Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
4. Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
5. ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
6. Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
7. Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
8. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
9. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
10. 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on [email protected].