Senior Product Manager
Job Description
Fox Corporation is hiring a Senior Product Manager to help shape the digital product experience for tentpole events across Fox News Media. This role pairs high-stakes, moment-driven product work with AI-enabled workflows, helping teams move faster while keeping quality high from strategy through live execution and post-event learning. The position is based in New York, NY with onsite expectations (minimum 3 days per week).
What you’ll own
- Own end-to-end product strategy for tentpole event experiences across all FNM brands and properties
- Build and maintain a forward-looking tentpole calendar covering elections and political coverage, major national moments, cultural and lifestyle events, breaking news, weather events, and FNM brand-specific franchises
- Define what a differentiated FNM digital experience looks like per tentpole category and create a roadmap to get there
- Identify and build reusable, scalable event product infrastructure to reduce build time and improve quality across the portfolio
- Sequence tentpole investments against the broader C&E roadmap, coordinating dependencies with adjacent teams
- Lead product readiness planning for each tentpole event, including feature requirements, go/no-go criteria, runbooks, and rollback plans well in advance of air
- Partner with editorial to translate coverage priorities into product decisions under real-time constraints
- Drive pre-event testing, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional readiness reviews for peak traffic and editorial demand
- Own post-event retrospectives that document outcomes, gaps, and what carries into the next event cycle
- Serve as the primary product point of contact for editorial, engineering, design, and operations on all tentpole workstreams
- Write detailed PRDs and user stories that enable confident engineering execution on compressed timelines
- Own sprint ceremonies including backlog grooming, sprint planning, and sprint reviews, driving prioritization and delivery without dedicated delivery support
- Define success metrics such as traffic handling, engagement depth, feature adoption, and audience retention during live coverage windows
- Partner with data and analytics to build event-specific dashboards and provide real-time visibility during live events
- Use post-event data to identify the highest-leverage improvements for future tentpole cycles
AI-enabled product workflows
- Actively uses AI agents as a practiced, default part of daily product workflows
- Applies AI to research, synthesis, and analysis, including competitive research, user behavior pattern recognition, and data summarization
- Leverages AI for PRD drafting, user story creation, and sprint preparation
Qualifications
- 8+ years of product management experience, with a track record of owning high-stakes, time-bound product experiences
- Experience delivering live event, tentpole, or moment-driven digital products in any vertical (news, sports, entertainment, streaming, or similar)
- Demonstrated technical credibility to evaluate feasibility, engage with technical specs, and make build vs. defer decisions with engineers
- Strong operational instinct for readiness planning, failure mode anticipation, and cross-functional alignment under deadline pressure
- Comfort translating fast-moving editorial or business priorities into product requirements with minimal lead time
- Experience building scalable event product infrastructure (not only one-off builds)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including tight PRDs, leadership presentations, and stakeholder alignment across engineering and editorial teams
- Ability to operate independently on a lean team while managing multiple workstreams and event cycles
- Active, practiced use of AI to optimize daily workflows including research, synthesis, PRD drafting, stakeholder communication, and sprint preparation, with a habit of building and iterating on agent-assisted processes
- Regular, on-site attendance at least 3 days per week is essential
Compensation and benefits
Salary: USD 128,000 to 175,000 per year.
- Medical/dental/vision coverage
- Insurance
- 401(k) plan
- Paid time off
- Other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents
- Benefits for union represented employees per applicable collective bargaining agreement
Nice to have
- Experience at a digital media, news, streaming, or live entertainment company
- Track record delivering election or political event digital experiences
- Familiarity with live blog, real-time content, or results display product formats
- Experience managing product delivery under hard, immovable deadlines tied to real-world events
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