As our journalism spans an ever-growing archive and range of formats, helping audiences find, explore and understand our content within our products is central to delivering long-term value. Search and discovery are not simply navigational utilities, but core expressions of how our journalism is structured, explained and trusted. 

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Principal Product Manager to lead Search & Discovery across The Economist’s web and app products. This role brings together responsibility for how users actively find content through search and how they browse, explore and build reading habits through discovery. 

This role is ideal for someone who is both strategic and hands-on - someone who can set a clear vision for a complex, editorially-grounded product area while also driving measurable improvements to engagement, satisfaction and long-term subscriber value. 

The role 

The Principal Product Manager for Discovery & Personalisation will own how subscribers find, explore and return to The Economist's journalism across web and app. This is a senior, cross-cutting role spanning two closely related disciplines:

Discovery. Owning the on-platform representation of our content - search, navigation, browse patterns and conversational interfaces that allow users to interrogate the archive and find authoritative journalism efficiently. This includes keyword and semantic search, ranking and surfacing logic, and generative AI features such as Q&A, content summarisation and conversational discovery experiences. A key part of this work is establishing the evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop processes that ensure AI-powered features are grounded in user trust and consistent with our editorial brand.       

Personalisation. Owning the recommendation and ranking algorithms that drive browse-led experiences — helping subscribers decide what to read, watch or listen to next. This means defining the behavioural signals and contextual inputs that feed personalisation models, partnering with data science on model development and evaluation, and ensuring our systems support habit formation without narrowing editorial perspective.

The role interfaces with Web, App, Data science, Editorial and Analytics teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and roadmap for Discovery & Personalisation across web and app.
• Lead the evolution of keyword and semantic search, including relevance, ranking and result quality.
• Own browse-led personalisation systems — defining the signals, models and decisioning logic that surface relevant, timely content for individual subscribers.
• Lead the creation of generative AI features including Q&A, content summarisation, explainer and conversational discovery experiences that help users explore and connect our journalism.
• Establish robust evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop processes to ensure AI-powered features are accurate, transparent and aligned with our editorial values.
• Partner closely with data science on the definition, evaluation and iteration of ranking and recommendation models.
• Maintain strong judgement around responsible, transparent and editorially-aligned personalisation — preserving journalistic breadth and integrity.
• Work closely with Editorial to ensure discovery and personalisation reflect journalistic judgement and trust, and that the right feedback loops are in place.
• Collaborate with Web and App teams to ensure consistent, high-quality implementation of discovery and personalisation experiences across platforms.
• Define and track success metrics related to findability, relevance, engagement, habit formation and trust.
• Communicate strategy, priorities and performance clearly to senior stakeholders across product, editorial and technology.

The ideal skills for this role are:

• Builder: You have owned and shipped complex search, discovery, recommendation or personalisation systems in content-rich or subscription products.
• AI-fluent: You have hands-on experience defining and evaluating generative AI features — you understand the product, trust and editorial considerations that make AI experiences succeed or fail.
• Data-informed: Comfortable working with data scientists on ML-driven systems, evaluation frameworks and experimentation.
• Product-led: Strong judgement in defining strategy, translating it into roadmaps, and delivering outcomes through cross-functional teams in lean environments.
• Editorially-aware: Confident balancing user intent, algorithmic optimisation and editorial integrity.
• Communicator: Able to explain complex systems and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative: Comfortable learning, iterating and working across disciplines — engineering, data science, design and editorial — in a fast-moving environment.

Domain knowledge

• Search and discovery systems, including semantic retrieval, ranking and evaluation.
• Personalisation systems, behavioural signals and experimentation.
• Generative AI product development and conversational interface best practices.
• Responsible AI, algorithmic transparency and human-in-the-loop design.
• Metrics for discovery quality, relevance, user understanding and trust.
• Subscription or habit-forming digital products.
• Multi-format digital content environments.
• Enthusiasm for The Economist's mission, journalism and global audience.

#LI-Hybrid 

With a growing global subscriber base and a reputation for insightful analysis and opinion on every aspect of world events, The Economist is one of the most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications and the foundation of our digital consumer product portfolio. We are developing a world-class product and design organisation and have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Product Designer to lead and manage the e-commerce and subscriptions design team. 

The role

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead and manage designers based in South East Asia and the UK across our e-commerce and subscriptions product area. The team consists of 3 designers - from Mid-weight to Senior level - working across registration, conversions, purchase flows, subscription management and help centre on app and web. You will partner with peers in engineering, product management and marketing to raise the bar of design, experience and product thinking in teams that are re-imagining and optimising crucial steps in our subscription funnel to drive new acquisitions and retain subscribers. 

Your role will be to connect product and business strategy with the product teams across the e-commerce and subscriptions area. This will be through producing end-to-end impactful designs for strategically important initiatives as well as managing and motivating designers to deliver outstanding work. This role combines individual contributor and managerial responsibilities. A typical day may range from helping to plan the approach, methods and workload of your team; pushing design craft by leading initiatives or pairing with designers on impactful projects—coaching through the work; to building trusted cross functional relationships and providing developmental support to your reports. 

You’ll be able to demonstrate experience designing for subscription business models across app and web, running workshops, working from discovery through to delivery and driving high quality design work within teams. 

You’ll be supported by a friendly and inclusive design team who have the autonomy to define and improve processes and care deeply about developing each other's capabilities. As a senior member of the team you will work closely with other design leads and the VP of Product Design to grow the team, shape our practices and foster our culture.

Responsibilities

• Work with key partners across the business (from product, engineering, editorial, marketing and data) to achieve shared goals. 
• Champion research across teams; planning, managing and running user research alongside your team to understand user behaviour and identify needs. 
• Build a vision for your product area, be an important part of roadmap planning and help to set the strategy for how your designers deliver it. 
• Be the design representative for strategically key initiatives—holding the bar for The Economist brand digitally—ensuring that quality experiences get into the hands of subscribers. 
• Create artefacts like sketches, user flows or interactive prototypes to test assumptions and ideas. You will create production ready design assets and work with engineers to ensure a high quality experience is shipped. 
• Facilitate workshops and/or design sprints that bring stakeholders and others along the product development journey. 
• Communicate progress and product rationale to key partners including the C-suite, by designing and delivering presentations; or through dialogue on an ad-hoc basis. 
• Grow and mentor your reports - helping to shape their career paths and raise the bar of design, experience and product thinking. 
• Contribute and evolve the design culture within the design team. 

Who you are

• You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates your most significant team and personal accomplishments. It will highlight your design process and core craft skills including interaction and visual design across a breadth of platforms and project types. 
• Experience leading teams to deliver many launched products by working collaboratively with product managers, engineers, stakeholders and users in an agile way. 
• You can move between focusing on the minute details of a project to the overarching strategic vision, communicating and reacting to required trade-offs and helping your team plan accordingly. 
• An understanding of technologies used to build world-class digital product experiences. You have experience in agile working and sprints, will be hands-on with user-acceptance testing (UAT) and have a familiarity with the fundamentals of accessibility and usability. 
• Experience in responsive design across multiple screen sizes and devices; with a well-trained eye for design quality, usability and consistency.
• Experience with prototyping and design tools like Miro, Figma or Protopie and can prioritise choosing the right tool at the right time. Experience in AI enabled prototyping tools would be a plus. 
• Experience working with subscription business models. 
• Experience in managing and leading a small team of product designers.
• You have great communication skills and fluency in English. 

If you think you are qualified for this role but don’t necessarily tick every box, please submit an application. The ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist.

#LI-Hybrid 

As our journalism spans an ever-growing archive and range of formats, helping audiences find, explore and understand our content within our products is central to delivering long-term value. Search and discovery are not simply navigational utilities, but core expressions of how our journalism is structured, explained and trusted. 

We are seeking an experienced and highly capable Principal Product Manager to lead Search & Discovery across The Economist’s web and app products. This role brings together responsibility for how users actively find content through search and how they browse, explore and build reading habits through discovery. 

This role is ideal for someone who is both strategic and hands-on - someone who can set a clear vision for a complex, editorially-grounded product area while also driving measurable improvements to engagement, satisfaction and long-term subscriber value. 

The role 

The Principal Product Manager for Discovery & Personalisation will own how subscribers find, explore and return to The Economist's journalism across web and app. This is a senior, cross-cutting role spanning two closely related disciplines:

Discovery. Owning the on-platform representation of our content - search, navigation, browse patterns and conversational interfaces that allow users to interrogate the archive and find authoritative journalism efficiently. This includes keyword and semantic search, ranking and surfacing logic, and generative AI features such as Q&A, content summarisation and conversational discovery experiences. A key part of this work is establishing the evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop processes that ensure AI-powered features are grounded in user trust and consistent with our editorial brand.       

Personalisation. Owning the recommendation and ranking algorithms that drive browse-led experiences — helping subscribers decide what to read, watch or listen to next. This means defining the behavioural signals and contextual inputs that feed personalisation models, partnering with data science on model development and evaluation, and ensuring our systems support habit formation without narrowing editorial perspective.

The role interfaces with Web, App, Data science, Editorial and Analytics teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision and roadmap for Discovery & Personalisation across web and app.
• Lead the evolution of keyword and semantic search, including relevance, ranking and result quality.
• Own browse-led personalisation systems — defining the signals, models and decisioning logic that surface relevant, timely content for individual subscribers.
• Lead the creation of generative AI features including Q&A, content summarisation, explainer and conversational discovery experiences that help users explore and connect our journalism.
• Establish robust evaluation frameworks and human-in-the-loop processes to ensure AI-powered features are accurate, transparent and aligned with our editorial values.
• Partner closely with data science on the definition, evaluation and iteration of ranking and recommendation models.
• Maintain strong judgement around responsible, transparent and editorially-aligned personalisation — preserving journalistic breadth and integrity.
• Work closely with Editorial to ensure discovery and personalisation reflect journalistic judgement and trust, and that the right feedback loops are in place.
• Collaborate with Web and App teams to ensure consistent, high-quality implementation of discovery and personalisation experiences across platforms.
• Define and track success metrics related to findability, relevance, engagement, habit formation and trust.
• Communicate strategy, priorities and performance clearly to senior stakeholders across product, editorial and technology.

The ideal skills for this role are:

• Builder: You have owned and shipped complex search, discovery, recommendation or personalisation systems in content-rich or subscription products.
• AI-fluent: You have hands-on experience defining and evaluating generative AI features — you understand the product, trust and editorial considerations that make AI experiences succeed or fail.
• Data-informed: Comfortable working with data scientists on ML-driven systems, evaluation frameworks and experimentation.
• Product-led: Strong judgement in defining strategy, translating it into roadmaps, and delivering outcomes through cross-functional teams in lean environments.
• Editorially-aware: Confident balancing user intent, algorithmic optimisation and editorial integrity.
• Communicator: Able to explain complex systems and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative: Comfortable learning, iterating and working across disciplines — engineering, data science, design and editorial — in a fast-moving environment.

Domain knowledge

• Search and discovery systems, including semantic retrieval, ranking and evaluation.
• Personalisation systems, behavioural signals and experimentation.
• Generative AI product development and conversational interface best practices.
• Responsible AI, algorithmic transparency and human-in-the-loop design.
• Metrics for discovery quality, relevance, user understanding and trust.
• Subscription or habit-forming digital products.
• Multi-format digital content environments.
• Enthusiasm for The Economist's mission, journalism and global audience.

#LI-Hybrid 

Advertising plays a vital role in funding our journalism and supporting our global reach. At the same time, The Economist is a subscription-led, editorial-driven product, and advertising must be delivered in a way that respects audience trust, protects the reader experience and upholds our brand. 

We are seeking a Head of Ad Product to lead the strategy, technical ownership and delivery of advertising products across The Economist’s digital ecosystem. 

This role sits within the Product organisation, reporting to the VP, Engagement, to ensure that advertising products are developed with a strong product mindset - balancing commercial value with user experience, editorial integrity and long-term sustainability. It will have a dotted line to the Global Head of Advertising. 

The role

The Head of Ad Product will be accountable for the end-to-end advertising product portfolio across The Economist’s owned and operated platforms. 

You will own the advertising product vision and roadmap, and provide technical product leadership across the advertising technology stack spanning web, mobile app, newsletters, Espresso and future surfaces. 

A core responsibility of this role is balance: ensuring advertising is an integrated, high-quality part of a subscription-first ecosystem - effective for advertisers, operationally sound for the business, and appropriate within a premium editorial experience. 

You will lead the evolution of advertising products that make responsible, privacy-safe use of The Economist’s first-party data, enabling relevant, high-value advertising while maintaining audience trust and complying with regulatory requirements. 

You will manage and lead a cross-functional product squad and work in close partnership with the Global Head of Advertising, who is your primary commercial stakeholder. Together, you will shape how advertising evolves at The Economist, while this role remains accountable for product quality, platform integrity and user experience.

Responsibilities 

• Own the product vision and roadmap for advertising across The Economist’s digital products. 
• Manage and prioritise the advertising product backlog, leading a dedicated product squad. 
• Define how advertising fits coherently within a subscription-led, editorial-first ecosystem. 
• Lead technical product ownership of the advertising stack across web, app, newsletters and Espresso. 
• Define how first-party data is responsibly leveraged to support targeting, measurement and performance - in line with privacy, consent and trust expectations. 
• Ensure advertising products are scalable, performant, privacy-compliant and future-ready. 
• Partner closely with the Global Head of Advertising to translate commercial strategy into product capabilities. 
• Lead the discovery, design, delivery and optimisation of advertising formats, sponsorships and integrations. 
• Set clear standards for ad quality, placement, relevance and user experience. 
• Work with engineering teams to define architecture and integrations that balance optimal ad delivery with uncompromised content performance and user experience. ● 
• Partner with Revenue Operations to streamline ad-related workflows and reduce operational complexity. 
• Own relationships with key ad tech vendors and platforms, ensuring they support first-party-data-led strategies. 
• Establish feedback loops between sales, editorial, product and operations to drive continuous improvement.
• Communicate product strategy, trade-offs and progress clearly to senior stakeholders.

Who you are

• Senior product leader: Significant experience owning complex, platform-level products. 
• Ad tech fluent: Deep understanding of digital advertising systems, including first-party data-driven models. 
• Product-first mindset: Strong judgement about balancing monetisation with user experience and trust. 
• Technically confident: Comfortable engaging deeply with engineers on architecture, data flows and trade-offs. 
• Data-aware: Experience working with audience data, consent frameworks and measurement systems. 
• Strategic thinker: Able to set direction while driving execution through teams. 
• Commercially aware: Understands how advertising products deliver value for clients and the business. 
• Collaborative: Effective partner to editorial, sales, operations and technology leaders. 
• Clear communicator: Able to explain complex decisions to technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Pragmatic and decisive: Comfortable making prioritisation decisions in a live, high-impact environment. 

Domain knowledge 

• Experience working with ad servers, programmatic platforms and sponsorship products. 
• Strong understanding of first-party data strategies in premium or subscription-led environments.
• Familiarity with privacy, consent, identity and regulatory requirements in digital advertising. 
• Experience delivering products across multiple platforms (web, app, email).
• Enthusiasm for The Economist’s mission and editorial standards.

#LI-Hybrid 

With a growing global subscriber base and a reputation for insightful analysis and opinion on every aspect of world events, The Economist is one of the most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications and the foundation of our digital consumer product portfolio. We are developing a world-class product and design organisation and have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Product Designer to lead and manage the e-commerce and subscriptions design team. 

The role

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to lead and manage designers based in South East Asia and the UK across our e-commerce and subscriptions product area. The team consists of 3 designers - from Mid-weight to Senior level - working across registration, conversions, purchase flows, subscription management and help centre on app and web. You will partner with peers in engineering, product management and marketing to raise the bar of design, experience and product thinking in teams that are re-imagining and optimising crucial steps in our subscription funnel to drive new acquisitions and retain subscribers. 

Your role will be to connect product and business strategy with the product teams across the e-commerce and subscriptions area. This will be through producing end-to-end impactful designs for strategically important initiatives as well as managing and motivating designers to deliver outstanding work. This role combines individual contributor and managerial responsibilities. A typical day may range from helping to plan the approach, methods and workload of your team; pushing design craft by leading initiatives or pairing with designers on impactful projects—coaching through the work; to building trusted cross functional relationships and providing developmental support to your reports. 

You’ll be able to demonstrate experience designing for subscription business models across app and web, running workshops, working from discovery through to delivery and driving high quality design work within teams. 

You’ll be supported by a friendly and inclusive design team who have the autonomy to define and improve processes and care deeply about developing each other's capabilities. As a senior member of the team you will work closely with other design leads and the VP of Product Design to grow the team, shape our practices and foster our culture.

Responsibilities

• Work with key partners across the business (from product, engineering, editorial, marketing and data) to achieve shared goals. 
• Champion research across teams; planning, managing and running user research alongside your team to understand user behaviour and identify needs. 
• Build a vision for your product area, be an important part of roadmap planning and help to set the strategy for how your designers deliver it. 
• Be the design representative for strategically key initiatives—holding the bar for The Economist brand digitally—ensuring that quality experiences get into the hands of subscribers. 
• Create artefacts like sketches, user flows or interactive prototypes to test assumptions and ideas. You will create production ready design assets and work with engineers to ensure a high quality experience is shipped. 
• Facilitate workshops and/or design sprints that bring stakeholders and others along the product development journey. 
• Communicate progress and product rationale to key partners including the C-suite, by designing and delivering presentations; or through dialogue on an ad-hoc basis. 
• Grow and mentor your reports - helping to shape their career paths and raise the bar of design, experience and product thinking. 
• Contribute and evolve the design culture within the design team. 

Who you are

• You have a strong portfolio that demonstrates your most significant team and personal accomplishments. It will highlight your design process and core craft skills including interaction and visual design across a breadth of platforms and project types. 
• Experience leading teams to deliver many launched products by working collaboratively with product managers, engineers, stakeholders and users in an agile way. 
• You can move between focusing on the minute details of a project to the overarching strategic vision, communicating and reacting to required trade-offs and helping your team plan accordingly. 
• An understanding of technologies used to build world-class digital product experiences. You have experience in agile working and sprints, will be hands-on with user-acceptance testing (UAT) and have a familiarity with the fundamentals of accessibility and usability. 
• Experience in responsive design across multiple screen sizes and devices; with a well-trained eye for design quality, usability and consistency.
• Experience with prototyping and design tools like Miro, Figma or Protopie and can prioritise choosing the right tool at the right time. Experience in AI enabled prototyping tools would be a plus. 
• Experience working with subscription business models. 
• Experience in managing and leading a small team of product designers.
• You have great communication skills and fluency in English. 

If you think you are qualified for this role but don’t necessarily tick every box, please submit an application. The ‘perfect candidate’ doesn’t exist.

#LI-Hybrid