Data Product Manager
Data Product Manager
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Job Description
The Texas Tribune the states go-to source for politics and public policy news is hiring a Data Product Manager to transform our robust data resources into powerful actionable business insights. Youll work across every layer of the organization to ensure everyone benefits from data thats clear connected and aligned with our mission.
This role is housed in the product department reporting to the Chief Product Officer and collaborating closely with the Director of Audience Growth and Engagement. The Tribunes product team is the bridge between editorial audience and revenue. We create systems to guide our organizations transformation as we launch and sustain local newsrooms to serve more Texans. This is not an editorial position but you will work closely with journalists to contribute to improving news products.
The salary for this position starts at $80000 depending on qualifications.
What youll do
Youll operate on three critical levels:
- Team collaboration: Work with the product team audience team and others to translate data into actionable insights and product recommendations. Partner with team leads across the organization to ensure major decisions are grounded in evidence not guesswork.
- Vision and infrastructure: Own maintain and iterate upon the core data infrastructure that powers how we track measure and understand newsroom and business activity. Collaborate with leadership on connecting daily operations to the Tribunes big-picture vision ensuring data tells the right story and our overall direction stays on course.
- Company-wide Storytelling: Distill the torrent of metrics trends and discoveries into impactful presentations for staff alongside the audience director. Your work will help us see the big picture and align efforts on what truly drives our mission.
Example of a major project
Build simple intuitive dashboards for our new Waco and Austin newsrooms. These tools will track local growth and impact by delivering real-time insights and engagement in a clear interface.
About you
- You know what questions data and analytics can answer and what it cant.
- You have experience building dashboards defining success metrics and working cross-functionally.
- You love finding clarity amid complexity and empowering others to do the same.
- You dont just maintain dashboards but constantly ask what we should measure next to further our mission.
- Youll shape the culture around data-driven decisions as we grow including proposing and driving KPIs.
- You thrive on turning raw data into alignment impact and mission-driven action.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree and 2 years of relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Experience working with newsroom digital media or audience engagement teams.
- Demonstrated ability to translate raw data into business product and editorial recommendations.
- Experience designing dashboards and analytics tools for non-technical end users using BI tools such as Looker or Tableau.
- Familiarity with audience measurement and CRM tools such as Google Analytics and Salesforce.
- Proven track record of cross-functional collaboration and project ownership.
- Strategic thinker with strong organizational and prioritization skills.
- Experience with SQL; knowledge of Python R or other programming languages for data queries pipelines or modeling.
- Technical experience that is a plus but not required includes integrating with third-party APIs and performing ETL work and knowledge of cloud services like BigQuery and dbt.
We know there are great candidates who wont check all of these boxes and we also know you might bring important skills that we havent thought of. If thats you dont hesitate to apply and tell us about yourself.
Location
The Tribune is headquartered in Austin and we have journalists in cities across the state. This position can be based anywhere in the U.S but we prefer candidates who are familiar with Texans and their news needs.
Benefits
This job is full-time and has the following benefits:
- Medical vision and dental insurance
- Monthly cellphone stipend
- 20 days of paid time off each year
- 12 paid holidays
- Up to 16 weeks of paid family leave plus four weeks of additional job protection
- Annual 401(k) match
- Support for professional training and career development
- Remote working flexibility
How to Apply
The Texas Tribune is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants of all identities backgrounds ages and abilities to apply. We cant wait to hear from you.
About The Texas Tribune
Heres what you should know about the Tribune. From day one weve had disruption innovation and risk-taking in our DNA. Were ambitious as all get out but still have the punch-above-your-weight mentality of a scrappy start-up. We believe we can meet the demands of our audience and our own expectations for excellence without breaking the bank or our staff. We understand not everything is a story for us we have to make choices but were always looking to expand our boundaries.
Were nonprofit because the challenging economic reality for media these days obligates us to find a different way reliable and sustainable to fund serious journalism. Were nonpartisan because we live in the United States of Confirmation Bias and we dont need to be part of the problem. We dont need to be yet another source of information affirming the voices and perspectives that are already in peoples heads. At the same time nonpartisan is not non-thinking. We call B.S. when B.S. needs to be called.
The Texas Tribune seeks to ensure that its newsroom and its news coverage reflect Texas by including a wide range of perspectives from people of different backgrounds ideologies and experiences.
Learn more about The Texas Tribune here.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
