Data Program Manager, Consumer Privacy
New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description

The New York Times seeks a Program Manager for the Data Platform mission's newly formed Privacy team. The Privacy team will focus on the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act) project through January 2020, and beyond that work on data privacy as The Times expands this privacy initiative, driven both by internal strategy and by regulation.

Our CCPA initiative is a large-scale project that will impact a broad array of teams, including NYT and Wirecutter, web and native applications, advertising, multiple data engineering teams, and more. The Program Manager will coordinate and collaborate with the leads of all impacted teams and directly manage parts of the Data Engineering implementation process. The person in this role will closely partner with a product owner and tech lead to deliver this initiative successfully.

This role can be hired at a Senior Project Manager or Program Manager level, depending on candidate experience.

Ideally, you have:

* A proven talent for building consensus and driving change.


* A high level of comfort with risk, change and uncertainty; a talent for bringing order to chaos.


* The experience and wisdom to lead project teams and manage risks, and have shipped multiple products on time and on budget. You can take ownership of complex efforts and mediate between competing interests and personalities to get alignment and motivate change.


* Excellent organizational skills. You are able to conscientiously manage and follow up on multiple concurrent tasks and requests on tight deadlines.


* Superb communication skills, including the ability to communicate between technical and non-technical contributors, and between project teams and senior leadership. Engage in information management on all sides, and continually work to improve and streamline this flow.



Job Responsibilities:

* Work closely with the team to drive definition and execution of features and products. Actively seek out, track and remove barriers to completing a project.


* Act as a strong leader and owner of software development projects; motivate and maintain momentum as you drive those projects to successful, smooth, on-time completion.


* Champion and support agile software development practices, and tailor that process (including scrums, planning, review and retrospective sessions, demos and more) to your project team.


* Partner with cross-disciplinary teams and stakeholders to ensure that product goals are clearly defined and are being met.


* Track project progress and report status on a regular basis to the project team and partners. Engage in information management on all sides, and continually work to improve and streamline this flow.



Qualifications:

* 4+ years relevant work experience in project management


* A basic understanding of several of these areas: big data, web and app tech stacks, privacy principles and regulation, online marketing and advertising data. You're excited to learn about new technologies and approaches to working with data.


* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and knowledge of Jira, Confluence, Rally, Version One, or other equivalent project and road-mapping management software tools


* Passion for The New York Times's mission and commitment to be part of our innovation and growth



Benefits and Perks:

* Support our original, independent and reported journalism.
* We provide great health, dental, vision and life insurance for employees and their families
* We support responsible retirement planning with a generous 401(k) company match.
* We offer a great parental leave.
* We are committed to career development and ongoing learning supported by a formal mentoring program as well as $8,000 annually for tuition reimbursement.
* We have frequent panel discussions and talks by newsmakers and industry leaders.
* Join a community committed to the richness of diversity, experiences and talents in the world we cover, supported by a variety of employee resource groups.

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The New York Times is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce, one that reflects the varied global community we serve. Our journalism and the products we build in the service of that journalism greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which can only come from diversity of all types, across our ranks, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do. It is also the smart thing for our business. So we strongly encourage women, veterans, people with disabilities, people of color and gender nonconforming candidates to apply.

The New York Times Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does 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. All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.