Senior Product Marketing Manager, Games

Columbia, MD, United States

Senior Product Marketing Manager, Games page is loaded Senior Product Marketing Manager, Games Apply locations New York, NY time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago job requisition id REQ-016532 The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for.

Job Description About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a motivated, collaborative, creative, analytical, and user-centric product marketer to support its consumer engagement efforts on the Product Marketing team. Reporting to the Executive Director and Head of Product Marketing, you will be directly responsible for growing and improving engagement with New York Times Games. Your role will involve a combination of strategic work and execution excellence, partnering with product and editorial teams to shape the roadmap, developing messaging and go-to-market strategies with your peers in marketing, and collaborating across many other departments to make Games launches a success. You will bring digital, mobile-first, full-funnel marketing experience to the team, creating engaging lifecycle product and marketing strategies that help our customers feel connected to our brand and each other. You will be in a hybrid position, where you'll be in the office three times per week.

Responsibilities:

You will validate unique market opportunities: Gather insight into consumer perspectives and market dynamics to identify product opportunities. Create audience segmentation frameworks and personas to build customer empathy, and partner with product teams to build solutions that meet market needs.

You will create compelling positioning and messaging: Identify the factors that increase the worth of our products to consumers, and develop messaging frameworks that convey the value propositions that compel them to subscribe. Conduct message tests to evaluate what resonates with our target audience, and launch the most performant variant.

You will develop go-to-market strategies: Use market and consumer insights to develop GTM strategies that create demand, write clear creative briefs, and determine the ideal marketing mix to meet our goals.

You will increase habitual product usage and retention: Build dashboards and monitor metrics to measure campaign and product health, supplementing that with qualitative consumer feedback to determine optimization opportunities. Develop new strategies to increase demand and adoption based on performance.

You will lead app store optimization: Use your subject matter expertise in ASO to increase awareness and downloads for all New York Times apps, partnering with Apple and Google to implement listing best practices, secure in-app events to promote product launches and content series, and improve app rankings across several categories.

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years of related experience in mobile growth marketing, product marketing, or product management, including insights-driven go-to-market experience.

3+ years of experience with B2C, mobile-first, digital subscription products with repeat user engagement patterns.

1+ years of experience leading app store optimization for iOS and Android.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on multi-game, multi-platform, and multi-app product portfolios.

Practice gamifying product experiences to delight users and improve loyalty.

Interest in playing puzzle games and participating in new game prototyping sprints.

The annual base pay range for this role is between $145,000.00 and $155,000.00.

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