Principal Product Manager – Search & Discovery
The Economist
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Indonesia
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About the role
- 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
Requirements
- Experience with search, discovery, recommendation or navigation systems in content-rich products
- Strong judgement in defining strategy, translating it into roadmaps, and delivering outcomes through cross-functional teams
- Comfortable working with data scientists on ML-driven systems, evaluation frameworks and experimentation
- Confident balancing user intent, algorithmic optimisation and editorial integrity
- Adept at understanding the needs of editorial, engineering, design and senior business stakeholders
- Able to explain complex systems and trade-offs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- Bias for focused, high-impact delivery in lean teams
- Comfortable learning, iterating and working across disciplines in a fast-moving environment
Benefits
- Highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan
- Private health insurance
- 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through our Employee Assistance Program
- Work From Anywhere program
- Generous annual and parental leave
- Dedicated days off for volunteering and moving home
- Free access to all The Economist content
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
search systemsdiscovery systemsrecommendation systemsnavigation systemskeyword searchsemantic searchranking modelsrecommendation modelsevaluation frameworksmachine learning
Soft Skills
strategic judgementcross-functional collaborationcommunicationuser intent balancingeditorial integrityexplanation of complex systemsfocused deliveryadaptabilityiterationstakeholder management