Senior Product Manager Core Experiences

About the Role We’re on a mission to deliver riveting storytelling for all of America. At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most. Why This Role Matters The Washington Post is looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the evolution of our core digital experience—how millions of people read, navigate, and build a relationship with our journalism every day. It’s about making The Post’s core experiences even more indispensable, faster, clearer, more intuitive, more trusted and more engaging for every user. You will work at the center of Product, Design, and Engineering to continuously improve the fundamentals: how The Post’s world‑class reporting is discovered, consumed, and remembered. The goal is simple to state and difficult to achieve: make The Post feel essential to daily life. How You’ll Support The Mission • Own the core experience. Drive the evolution of the Washington Post website and apps: homepages, article pages, navigation, and key user journeys. • Make quality–and trust–measurable. Define and improve the metrics that matter: engagement, retention, frequency, speed, and user satisfaction. • Turn insight into iteration. Use data, research, and instinct to identify friction, prioritize improvements, and ship continuously. • Partner deeply with Design and Engineering. Work side‑by‑side to refine interaction models, improve performance, and elevate the overall product experience. • Strengthen the daily habit. Identify and build the features, loops, and cues that bring users back, making The Post part of their routine, not just a destination. • Balance craft and scale. Care about the details that make experiences feel great, while ensuring solutions work across platforms and audiences. • Improve how journalism lives in the product. Continuously refine how stories are presented, structured, and surfaced—so great journalism reaches and resonates with more people. What We’re Looking For • A product manager who has improved meaningful, at‑scale consumer experiences, not just shipped features. Bonus points for prior news/journalism product experience. • Strong product judgment: you know what to fix, what to leave alone, and what to rethink entirely. • Comfort working in high‑traffic, high‑visibility surfaces where small changes have large impact. • Fluency with data, but not dependency on it. You use it to inform decisions, not avoid them. • Experience partnering closely with design and engineering to raise the quality of shipped work. • A bias toward iteration and momentum; you make things better week by week, not just quarter by quarter. • Sensitivity to content, storytelling, and how users actually experience information—not just interfaces. • A foundational belief in the importance of journalism and trusted expertise, and where that mission fits in an increasingly AI‑driven world. Collaboration and Work Environment Collaboration makes us stronger. Our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on‑site five days a week. Compensation and Benefits • Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage • Company‑paid pension and 401(k) match • Three weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave • Nine paid holidays and two personal days • Twenty weeks paid parental leave for any new parentRobust mental health resources • Backup care and caregiver concierge services • Gender‑affirming services • Pet insurance • Free Post digital subscription • Leadership and career development programs Benefits may vary based on the job, full‑time or part‑time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status. The salary range for this position is: $119,700 - $199,300 Annual The actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program.