Senior Product Manager (New York)

Position Title: Senior Product Manager – Privacy Platform

ABOUT THE POSITION

As People Inc. expands and scales its product offerings, maintaining user trust is foundational to our growth. We are looking for a Senior Product Manager – Data Privacy, Trust & Platform to lead the product strategy, platform capabilities, and user experiences that power data privacy, consent, and user trust across our ecosystem.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between business strategy, legal requirements, and engineering execution, serving as the platform owner for backend data pipelines and compliance automation, and the functional strategist defining user-facing consent controls and preference touch points.

ABOUT THE TEAM

At People Inc., reader trust is essential. This team builds the critical platform infrastructure and defines the user-facing privacy logic that ensures data rights are honored seamlessly for our readers, operationally efficient for internal teams, and fully compliant across global regulations.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Product Strategy & Leadership: Define and execute a comprehensive product roadmap for user trust, data privacy, and consent management. Serve as the strategic bridge aligning Legal, Engineering, Product, and Revenue leadership around complex trade-offs.
• Platform Architecture & Data Systems: Partner with engineering teams to design and scale backend data infrastructure, event tracking, and automated compliance pipelines that streamline operations and eliminate manual drag.
• Agile Team Leadership & Day-to-Day Execution: Lead and run the dedicated engineering scrum team on a day-to-day basis, owning sprint planning, backlog prioritization, refinement, discovery and continuous delivery of platform capabilities.
• User Experience & Product Taste: Lead the functional strategy and design logic for user-facing privacy controls, consent touch points, and account preferences across web and mobile applications, ensuring they build brand trust without introducing unnecessary user friction.
• Cross-Functional Alignment & Revenue Safety: Balance competing business priorities by negotiating clear trade-offs between regulatory risk, user conversion, and ad revenue/analytics sustainability.
• Internal Tools: Build operational tools and capabilities for internal stakeholders (Legal, Support, Operations) to audit data lineage, monitor compliance metrics, and ensure operational efficiency.

QUALIFICATIONS & REQUIREMENTS

• 5+ years of Product Management experience owning software roadmaps, driving strategy, and shipping technical products end-to-end.
• Demonstrated track record of managing up and driving alignment across product leadership, legal, revenue, and technical stakeholders.
• Strong technical and systems acumen: Comfortable working with backend data platforms, event tracking, APIs, and data routing infrastructure.
• User-centric mindset: Passion for building intuitive, high-quality user experiences that simplify complex privacy choices for consumers.
• Cross-functional leadership: Proven ability to define functional requirements and strategy for neighboring engineering, design, and growth teams.

PREFERRED BACKGROUNDS & TARGET ENVIRONMENTS

• Experience in digital media, digital publishing, subscription services, high-scale consumer apps, or B2B data infrastructure balancing subscription growth, user accounts, and revenue sustainability.
• Background in Data Platform, Growth Infrastructure, Core Platform, Data Governance, or Monetization Systems.
• Exposure to environments like digital subscription media (The New York Times, Vox Media, Spotify), consumer apps (Airbnb, Uber, Calm, Duolingo), or data platform architectures (Twilio Segment, Snowflake).
• General understanding of privacy frameworks and how user consent choices impact analytics, ad targeting, and revenue.