Product Manager

OVERVIEW

A thriving, mission-driven multimedia organization, NPR produces award-winning news, information, and music programming in partnership with hundreds of independent public radio stations across the nation. The NPR audience values information, creativity, curiosity, and social responsibility – and our employees do too. We are innovators and leaders in diverse fields, from journalism and digital media to IT and development. Every day, our employees and member stations touch the lives of millions worldwide. 

Across our organization, we’re building a workplace where collaboration is essential, diverse voices are heard, and inclusion is the key to our success. We are committed to doing the right thing in our journalism and in every role at NPR_._ This means that integrity, adherence to our ethical standards, and compliance with legal obligations are fundamental responsibilities for every employee at NPR.

Intro to Position

NPR is scaling and maturing our audience engagement practice into a unified, data-driven, cross-platform growth and engagement engine, and lifecycle management is at the center of that transformation. This role owns the lifecycle activation tools, with a mandate to replace manual, campaign-by-campaign execution with scalable, AI-enabled (where appropriate) processes, and their work focuses on key touchpoints of engagement such as email acquisition, repeat engagement and donation conversion/retention. This role works in daily partnership with Data, Editorial, Marketing, Design, Engineering and Product teams with a mission to make every relationship touchpoint personalized, measurable, user-friendly and tied to business outcomes.

This is a union-represented role covered under the terms of a collective bargaining agreement with NABET-CWA DMU. 

Responsibilities

• Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: Lead the product roadmap for NPR's audience lifecycle and martech ecosystem (including Piano.io and Salesforce Marketing Cloud), translating stakeholder requirements into prioritized engineering backlogs.
• Martech Operationalization & Tooling: Build, configure, and operationalize internal-facing audience activation tools, establishing intuitive self-serve processes, user permissions, and governance guardrails for content and marketing leads.
• Audience Journey Optimization: Partner with cross-divisional teams to design scalable automation rules and capabilities that enhance the full listener journey—from email discovery and content re-engagement to recurring donation conversion and win-back.
• Collaborate with Data and Analytics teams to enhance customer data platform (CDP) segmentation, tracking taxonomy, and attribution modeling to measure the direct impact of activation campaigns.