Temporary Product Manager, Production Planning Tools
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NPR
Job Description
OVERVIEW
A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide.
Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR. This means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.
Application Deadline: Wednesday, April 22nd at 10am ET
Intro to Position
As the Product Manager for Production Planning Tools, you will take the helm of NPR’s broadcast and digital production tooling roadmap. This is a critical role focused on maintaining momentum for our enterprise tool suite. You will help lead the Nexus suite (planning, scripting, sourcing, and delivery) and the IO asset management system, ensuring that our journalists, hosts, and producers have the seamless, high-performance tools they need to tell the world’s most important stories.
This role will report to the Sr. Manager of Product, Content Production Technology, working at the intersection of design, engineering, and editorial to ensure a coordinated flow of media from the newsroom to our audiences.
This is a union-represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with NABET-CWA DMU.
Responsibilities
- Roadmap Ownership & Continuity: Work alongside the Sr. Manager to maintain the overall Nexus roadmap and its associated tools. You will audit and refine existing priorities to ensure the roadmap remains ambitious yet achievable.
- Subject Matter Expertise: Quickly become the go-to expert for the Nexus tool suite; understanding the intricate dependencies between AP wires, asset collection, and broadcast/digital publication systems.
- Strategic Integration: Work in lock-step with the Product Manager for the publishing CMS (Grove) to optimize the "Nexus-to-Grove" pipeline for a frictionless transition from production to distribution.
- Agile Leadership: Lead Scrum ceremonies and Agile processes for a cross-functional build team, fostering a culture of iterative delivery and high-quality technical requirements.
- Stakeholder Advocacy: Act as a bridge between the technology teams and the newsroom. You will collaborate with Newshub, Editorial, Programming, and Podcast teams to ensure workflows are built for storytellers, not just software users.
- Collaboration & Inclusion: Maintain and contribute to NPR’s culture of inclusion, ensuring diverse perspectives are represented in the product development lifecycle.
The above duties and responsibilities are not an exhaustive list of required responsibilities, duties and skills. Other duties may be assigned, and this job description can be modified at any time.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years experience in product management, with experience in content production, and the news industry a plus
- Professional experience with content management systems (CMS) and strategies, including storage, sharing and distribution
- Experience leading Agile enabled teams
Required Skills/Competencies
- Operational Exc
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