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About the role
The FT app is an important part of how subscribers engage with FT journalism, and we believe there is a significant opportunity to go further. We're looking for an experienced Product Manager with a strong background in native and/or cross-platform mobile apps to play a central role in this transformation.
You'll join at a pivotal moment, working alongside our Principal Product Manager, engineering and design colleagues to turn our app strategy into reality, delivering improvements to the app experience and building the capabilities that will support its continued evolution.
This is an opportunity to shape a product used by a highly engaged global audience, while helping establish a stronger mobile product discipline within the FT.
What you'll be doing
Help shape the future of the FT app
- Work with the Principal Product Manager to translate our long-term app strategy into clear product requirements, priorities and a deliverable roadmap.
- Bring specialist mobile product knowledge and experience to decisions about the future app experience, challenging assumptions and finding opportunities to make better use of native device capabilities.
- Develop a deep understanding of our customers, their behaviours and the moments in which they turn to the FT, using research, analytics and experimentation to see opportunities.
- Champion a mobile-first approach to product development, ensuring we're designing around the needs of app customers and complementing their web experience.
- Work across product teams to ensure the app delivers a coherent, premium experience that delivers meaningful value for the business, while making effective use of shared FT capabilities.
Deliver a distinctive, premium mobile experience
- Own and prioritise defined areas of the app roadmap, balancing customer value, strategic impact, technical dependencies and commercial outcomes.
- Work day-to-day with engineering, design, data and editorial colleagues to take initiatives from discovery through development, release and iteration.
- Help deliver experiences that make the FT more essential to customers' daily routines, including better navigation, discovery, personalisation, notifications, offline experiences and continuity across devices.
- Explore opportunities to make FT journalism more engaging and useful through native mobile interactions and seamless experiences across text, audio, video, data and other formats.
- Collaborate with teams responsible for identity, subscriptions and customer lifecycle to make the app a more effective platform for acquisition, engagement, retention and subscriber growth.
- Establish clear success measures, use experimentation and customer feedback to inform decisions, and continuously optimise the experience.
- Ensure that performance, accessibility, reliability and usability are treated as fundamental parts of the product experience.