Senior Product Manager, Core Experiences

The Washington Post•Washington, DC

20h•Onsite

About The Position

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. This is not a role solely focused on launching new standalone products (though, you will do that). 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.

Requirements

A product manager who has improved meaningful, at-scale consumer experiences, not just shipped features.
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.

Nice To Haves

Bonus points for prior news/journalism product experience.

Responsibilities

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.