Principal Product Manager

Job TitlePrincipal Product ManagerJob DescriptionAbout The RoleFOX News Media is looking for a Principal Product Manager to own the content experiences that shape how audiences discover, navigate, and engage with content across FNM digital properties. This is a senior individual contributor role with broad scope and significant cross-functional influence. This role is the product authority for the structural layer of the FNM audience experience: the architecture, surfaces, and standards that translate content strategy into what users actually find and explore.You will own how audiences browse, navigate, and find content: the navigation systems, brand and vertical destinations, topic pages, and content structures that make FNM's editorial output accessible and engaging at scale.The right candidate brings fluency in information architecture alongside a genuine understanding of how content strategy shapes user behavior. You are comfortable navigating multi-brand complexity, setting standards that work across a portfolio of distinct properties, and partnering closely with other leaders across the product-technology team.A Snapshot Of Your ResponsibilitiesContent Architecture & DiscoveryPartner with editorial teams to define how brand and vertical hubs are structured, curated, and maintained, balancing editorial control with scalable content organizationDefine and evolve the information architecture for FNM digital: content organization, topic and vertical structures, brand hubs, and the navigational logic that connects audiences to contentBuild and maintain the user-facing discovery surfaces that help audiences explore FNM content: navigation menus, topic pages, brand and vertical destinations, related content surfaces, and searchPartner with the Personalization PM to ensure the standards editorial defines produce the signals that power algorithmic recommendation across FNM surfacesEditorial Content PartnershipPartner with editorial stakeholders to understand content strategy priorities and translate them into user-facing product decisions that serve both audience needs and editorial goalsServe as the product voice on content quality and digital best practices, ensuring that how content is structured and presented meets audience expectations and platform standardsCoordinate with the Tooling & Platform Operations PM to ensure the user-facing content architecture remains aligned with the publishing infrastructure that supports itMulti-Brand OwnershipOwn the content experience product roadmap across FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Weather, OutKick, and FOX Radio digital properties, balancing brand-specific needs against shared platform investmentsEstablish clear standards for how brand-specific content organization differs from shared infrastructure, and define the intake process for brand-specific content experience requestsCoordinate with product, tech, delivery and design leads to ensure alignment across brand needs and strategiesCross-Functional ExecutionServe as the primary product point of contact for editorial, engineering, design, SEO, and data teams on all content experience workstreamsWrite clear, detailed PRDs and user stories that give engineering teams what they need to build confidentlyOwn ceremonies, including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint reviewsDrive execution, unblocking dependencies and maintaining delivery momentumData & MeasurementDefine success metrics for content experience initiatives: navigation engagement, content depth per session, hub performance, organic discoverability, and audience return rate driven by content structurePartner with data, analytics, and SEO teams to instrument features and generate actionable insightsUse experimentation to validate content architecture decisions and iterate with rigorAI-Powered Ways Of WorkingActively uses AI agents as a core part of daily product workflows, not as an occasional tool but as a practiced default approach to getting work doneApplies AI to research, synthesis, and analysis including competitive research, user behavior pattern recognition, and data summarizationLeverages AI for PRD drafting, user story creation, and sprint preparationWhat You Will NeedRequired10+ years of product experience at the intersection of content strategy and digital product; you understand how a newsroom thinks, how editorial decisions shape what audiences encounter, and how users discover and consume content across digital platforms, especially mobile appsStrong fluency in information architecture: you understand how content taxonomy, metadata standards, and tagging frameworks affect both user experience and search and SEO performanceExperience working in or alongside editorial environments; you understand how newsrooms operate under deadline pressure and can translate that context into product decisionsProven ability to translate content strategy into user-facing product decisions that serve audience needs across a multi-brand portfolioSolid understanding of SEO principles as they relate to content architecture and page structureComfort navigating multi-brand complexity; you can hold standards that work across a portfolio of distinct properties without defaulting to a one-size-fits-all solutionExcellent written and verbal communication; you can write tight PRDs, present a roadmap to leadership, and facilitate alignment across opinionated editorial and engineering stakeholdersActive, practiced use of AI agents across research, synthesis, PRD drafting, stakeholder communications, and sprint preparationRegular, on-site attendance at the workplace a minimum of 3 days per week is an essential function of this positionNice To Have, But Not A DealbreakerExperience at a digital media, news, or publishing company with a multi-brand or multi-property portfolioFamiliarity with how CMS platforms and editorial publishing workflows shape the user-facing content experienceExperience with personalization or recommendation systems in the context of content metadata and signal qualityTrack record improving audience engagement metrics tied to content navigation and discoveryBackground managing content governance or information architecture standards across a complex editorial organizationWe are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $175,000.00-229,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.View more detail about FOX Benefits.