Senior Engineering Manager, Storytelling - Mobile

Title: Senior Engineering Manager, Storytelling - Mobile
Type;Hybrid

Location: New York, NY

Job Description:

The mission of The New York Times is to seek the truth and help people understand the world. That means independent journalism is at the heart of all we do as a company. It’s why we have a world-renowned newsroom that sends journalists to report on the ground from nearly 160 countries. It’s why we focus deeply on how our readers will experience our journalism, from print to audio to a world-class digital and app destination. And it’s why our business strategy centers on making journalism so good that it’s worth paying for. 

About the Role

The New York Times is looking for a product-minded Senior Engineering Manager to lead iOS and Android development within our Storytelling group.

In this role, you will guide delivery of news format and visual journalism innovation in the Times' iOS and Android applications. You'll also collaboratively shape the strategy for the group's approach to iOS, Android and Hybrid mobile engineering. Within this, you'll manage and grow a native engineering team.

Through this work, you'll expand the reach of our newsroom's mission into mobile platforms and touch the lives of millions of readers around the world.

This is a hybrid role based in our New York City headquarters, reporting to the Senior Director of Storytelling Engineering. You can typically expect to come into our office two days a week.

 

Responsibilities:

• Build and operate a highly performant iOS and Android engineering team

• Foster a culture of innovation, product thinking, and engineering excellence

• Partner closely with Product, Design, and engineers on the team to define and deliver exceptional, distinctive mobile news storytelling experiences

• Develop and lead technical strategies for news experiences in our mobile applications with a 12-18 month vision

• Lead development of flexible architectures that allow us to tweak and iterate quickly, in response news-driven ideas

• Ensure all work that released is performant, and secure

• Manage a cohesive technical vision across iOS, Android, and Hybrid technologies

• Bridge the team's work into the wider iOS, Android, and Hybrid communities at NYT

• Demonstrate support and understanding of our value of journalistic independence and a strong commitment to our mission to seek the truth and help people understand the world.

 

Basic Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience as an Engineering Manager, leading native iOS or Android engineers

• Experience setting and executing technical strategies to deliver complex mobile UX

• Demonstrated history of delivering high-quality, performant, and reliable features

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with video or other rich media handling

• Experience with hybrid mobile development technologies and their integration

• Background in media, news, or other content-driven application development

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The annual base pay range for this role is between:

$176,000 - $205,000 USD

The New York Times Company is committed to being the world’s best source of independent, reliable and quality journalism. To do so, we embrace a diverse workforce that has a broad range of backgrounds and experiences across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. We encourage people from all  backgrounds to apply.

We are  an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate on the basis of an individual's sex, age, race, color, creed, national origin, alienage, religion, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation or affectional preference, gender identity and expression, disability, genetic trait or predisposition, carrier status, citizenship, veteran or military status and other personal characteristics protected by law.