Product Manager - Core & Innovation

Your Team

The Sun is one of the UK’s strongest brands and a cultural reference point that acts as an entertainer and instigator for its audience. Our product team owns a diverse digital portfolio, including Sun Savers, our Web and Mobile Apps, and the Sun Digital Newspaper. We are a fast-moving team adapting rapidly to the digital world to ensure The Sun remains a daily relationship for millions of people.

Your Role

You will own the strategy and development for the foundational, shared technologies that power our entire digital estate, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and enable other teams to deliver value faster. As our champion for innovation, you will explore and prototype new technologies, such as AI, to help our newsrooms drive efficiencies and keep The Sun at the cutting edge of media. Reporting into the product leadership, you will act as a technical and creative consultant to solve complex challenges across the business.

Day to day You Will

• Manage the product roadmap for core platform components, balancing foundational improvements with new feature enablement.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to define the technical strategy and architecture for our core platforms.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear, compelling proposals to gain buy-in from non-technical stakeholders.
• Research emerging technologies, particularly in AI and machine learning, to identify opportunities for application across the business.
• Lead the discovery and delivery of proofs‑of‑concept for new technologies to determine their viability and business impact.

What we’re looking for from you

• Experience in a technical or platform‑focused product management role where you have navigated complex technical roadmaps.
• Deep understanding of software development, APIs, and platform architecture used to partner effectively with engineering teams.
• Experience using Agile methodologies to run experiments or proofs‑of‑concept that validate new ideas quickly.
• A curious mindset focused on innovation, with a specific interest in how AI can be applied to digital media.
• Influencing skills used to evangelise a vision and build consensus among both technical and editorial stakeholders.
• Critical thinking skills used to analyse complex problems, weigh trade‑offs, and make data‑informed decisions.

At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in‑office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee‑led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre‑existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year