The Economist

Product Manager

• Own the vision and roadmap for Search & Discovery across web and app
• Define how The Economist’s journalism is structured, indexed and represented for on-platform discovery
• Lead the evolution of keyword and semantic search, including relevance, ranking and result quality
• Own browse-led discovery and personalisation systems
• Establish clear principles for editorial authority, transparency and explainability in search and discovery experiences
• Partner closely with Editorial teams to ensure discovery reflects journalistic judgement, trust and breadth
• Work with data science on the definition, evaluation and iteration of ranking and recommendation models and signals
• Collaborate closely with Web and App teams to ensure consistent, high-quality implementation of search and discovery experiences
• Define and track success metrics related to findability, exploration depth, relevance, satisfaction, habit formation and trust
• Communicate strategy, priorities and performance clearly to senior stakeholders across product, editorial and technology

Principal Product Manager – Search & Discovery

Product Designer

• Work with key partners across the business to achieve shared goals
• Carry out user research to understand user behaviour and identify needs
• Articulate insights and translate them into testable artefacts like sketches and user flows
• Define user flows and journeys with clarity
• Create production-ready design assets and collaborate with engineers
• Participate in workshops and design sprints to bring stakeholders along
• Share work regularly with your design team to communicate progress and rationale

Product Designer – eComm, MarTech

• Own and optimise the end-to-end subscriber journey
• Drive monetisation and experimentation
• Innovate in customer care
• Champion a data-driven culture
• Lead with influence

Associate Product Manager – Subs Growth and Lifecycle

• evolving 'For you'—offering timely and personalised content modules and recommendations
• enabling users to actively search, ask questions and explore topics of interest
• working closely with Product Managers, Engineers (including web, app and ML/AI), data and editorial; taking ownership of design decisions
• producing end-to-end user experiences and creating design deliverables ready for engineering
• upholding The Economist brand digitally, maintaining high visual quality while ensuring technical constraints are considered to create intuitive user flows
• collaborating with key partners across the business to design and optimise experiences across discovery and personalisation areas
• planning, managing and running user research to understand user behaviour and needs
• articulating key insights and translating them into testable artefacts like sketches, user flows or interactive prototypes
• defining user flows and journeys, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams
• creating production-ready design assets and working with engineers to ensure high-quality experience is shipped
• facilitating workshops and/or design sprints and communicating progress and product rationale to key partners

Senior Product Designer – Search & Discovery

• Work with key partners across the business to design and optimise experiences to drive user satisfaction and business outcomes
• Carry out user research to understand user behaviour and identify needs
• Articulate key insights and translate them into testable artefacts
• Define user flows and journeys, ensuring clarity and alignment across teams
• Create production-ready design assets and collaborate with engineers for high quality experience
• Participate in workshops and design sprints to bring stakeholders along the product development journey
• Regularly share work with your team and designers that communicate progress and design rationale

Product Designer – B2B Impact, Ads

• Own the vision and roadmap for the core app experience and platform
• Be accountable for app engagement KPIs, stability and performance
• Own SDK strategy, platform dependencies and technical health
• Lead development of Home, Weekly and core reading flows
• Own backend-for-frontend capabilities, shared services and app foundations
• Ensure high-quality implementation of personalisation in the front-end, in partnership with the Personalisation team
• Define standards for native app quality, accessibility and best practice
• Oversee push notification mechanics (triggering and segmentation) and coordination
• Act as the central product contact for all app initiatives

Principal Product Manager – Search & Discovery

Product Designer – eComm, MarTech

Associate Product Manager – Subs Growth and Lifecycle

Senior Product Designer – Search & Discovery

Product Designer – B2B Impact, Ads

Principal Product Manager – Core App