Principal Product Manager in England

Your Team

The Sun's digital product teams are dedicated to the development and continuous improvement of a world-class portfolio, including our websites, apps, and various digital platforms. We operate as an agile, cross-functional programme, collaborating to ensure our products meet the ever-changing needs of our audience and business. Our focus is on optimising user experiences, enhancing platform capabilities, and refining tools that empower our editorial teams to deliver excellence every day.

Your Role

Reporting to the Head of Product, you will take ownership of key digital initiatives across our Newsroom to help shape the future of one of Britain's most iconic brands. You will act as the primary strategic bridge between editorial ambition, commercial requirements, and engineering capacity, ensuring our digital platforms remain robust, scalable, and future-ready. This is a leadership position where you will inspire a team of product managers to deliver impactful digital experiences to millions of readers.

Day to day You Will

• Deliver a clear and impactful vision for digital products in alignment with wider business goals and audience needs.
• Enhance newsroom capabilities by optimising editorial workflows to enable the quick delivery of multiformat content.
• Lead and mentor a team of product managers, providing guidance and support to help them grow and deliver their best work.
• Establish a robust data framework for internal tools, using usage metrics to prioritise high-value features and manage technical debt.
• Drive the practical integration of AI and emerging technologies directly into the publishing workflow to augment journalist capabilities.
• Solve complex problems with creativity to maintain alignment between business objectives and user needs.

What we're looking for from you

• Experience delivering successful products in an audience-focused, digital-first environment.
• Experience working across content curation and distribution platforms like WordPress, with a deep understanding of enterprise-scale ecosystems and technical trade-offs.
• Leadership skills used to foster a culture of collaboration and innovation while guiding a team of product managers.
• Subject matter expertise in publishing or media environments, specifically regarding newsroom processes and content planning.
• Communication skills used to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical teams when managing complex stakeholder requirements.
• Analytical mindset used to interpret data to prioritise initiatives and measure the success of product features.
• Agile proficiency applied to leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve.

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

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. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. 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.