Job Overview
Location
London - Commercial
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Product
Date Posted
May 14, 2026
Full Job Description
đź“‹ Description
- • Lead product development strategy and trajectory within The Economist AI Lab, shaping early-stage product and service concepts for a world-leading media brand adapting to AI advances.
- • Be the voice of the future customer, coordinating design, research, and technical exploration to turn ideas into testable concepts, and lead validation efforts from problem framing to beta launches.
- • Work with a small, innovative team at the heart of The Economist Group’s AI research programme, driving innovation that aligns with editorial independence, intellectual rigour, and classical liberal values.
- • Develop high-level product visions, create roadmaps, and translate them into product briefs and user stories while collaborating with editorial, technology, business, and external stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment.
- • Thrive in uncertain, formative environments by connecting emerging technical capabilities—especially Generative AI—to customer needs, embracing fast-failure and autonomous decision-making in a dynamic setting.
🎯 Requirements
- • Experience leading product development involving emerging or experimental technologies, ideally including Generative AI
- • Experience working with product development frameworks and methodologies within an early-stage, 0-1 product lifecycle
- • Experience leading within B2C product contexts, particularly in content-led industries such as news, media, and entertainment
- • Skilled at communicating complex product and technology ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- • Understands The Economist’s core values of classical liberalism, intellectual rigour, and editorial independence
🏖️ Benefits
- • Highly competitive pension or 401(k) plan and private health insurance
- • 24/7 access to counselling and wellbeing resources through the Employee Assistance Program
- • Work From Anywhere program allowing up to 25 days per year of remote work from any location with legal right to work
- • Free access to all The Economist content, including online subscription, apps, podcasts, and more
- • Generous annual and parental leave, plus dedicated days off for volunteering and moving home
Skills & Technologies
About The Economist Group Limited
The Economist Group is a global leader in international affairs, business, and finance. Its flagship publication, The Economist magazine, provides in-depth analysis and opinion on global events. Beyond the magazine, the Group operates a diverse portfolio of businesses. These include Economist Impact, which offers data-driven insights and advisory services for businesses and governments; Economist Intelligence, providing economic forecasting and political risk analysis; and Economist Education, offering executive education programs. The company aims to help individuals and organizations understand the forces shaping the world and make better decisions.
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