Product Manager (Mobile Apps)

Location: London; 50% hybrid working model, averaging two to three days onsite.

Company

hirify.global is a global news organisation delivering digital journalism and services to more than one million digital subscribers daily.

What you will do

• Translate the long-term FT app strategy into product requirements, priorities, and a deliverable roadmap with the Principal Product Manager.
• Own and prioritise defined areas of the mobile app roadmap, balancing customer value, strategic impact, technical dependencies, and commercial outcomes.
• Work with engineering, design, data, editorial, identity, subscriptions, and customer lifecycle teams from discovery through development, release, and iteration.
• Deliver mobile experiences covering navigation, discovery, personalisation, notifications, offline use, cross-device continuity, and multiple content formats.
• Use research, analytics, experimentation, and customer feedback to define success measures and optimise engagement, retention, acquisition, and subscriber growth.
• Build mobile product expertise across the organisation, including platform conventions, app-store requirements, release management, analytics, experimentation, and iOS and Android practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience owning and delivering meaningful improvements to consumer-facing iOS and/or Android apps, ideally at significant scale, with frequent usage, or with complex customer journeys.
• Practical experience working with native and/or cross-platform development teams, understanding architecture differences, opportunities, trade-offs, and product implications.
• Familiarity with Apple and Google platform conventions, app-store policies, submission and release processes, in-app purchases, push notifications, device capabilities, and high-quality app delivery.
• Strong product management fundamentals, including customer discovery, problem and opportunity definition, prioritisation, roadmap management, experimentation, and outcome measurement.
• Proven iterative delivery experience with cross-functional engineering and design teams, including navigating technical complexity and balancing short-term improvements with longer-term investment.
• Ability to use qualitative and quantitative evidence to understand customer needs, evaluate success, and connect product experience with engagement, retention, and commercial performance.
• Ability to collaborate across organisational boundaries, bring disciplines together, and influence decisions without formal authority.
• Ability to operate effectively amid evolving technology choices, team structures, and delivery approaches, turning strategic ambition into practical action.

Nice to have

• Experience with subscription-based digital products, especially in publishing, media, content, or other habit-forming consumer services.
• Experience developing products that combine native and web-based capabilities.
• Experience with personalisation, content discovery, notifications, offline functionality, or other features that drive regular app engagement.
• Experience working with external development partners while retaining internal product ownership.
• Experience helping organisations establish or mature mobile product development practices.

Culture & Benefits

• 50% hybrid working model averaging two to three onsite days, with flexible working pattern requests accommodated where feasible.
• Generous annual leave, medical cover, inclusive parental leave packages, and subsidised gym memberships; benefits vary by location.
• Opportunities to give back to the community and work in an inclusive, disability-confident environment.
• Reasonable adjustments and personalisation are available during the application process and interviews.

Hiring process

• Applicants may use AI tools to assist with their application, but all information provided must be authentic and accurately represent their skills, experience, and qualifications.
• Requests for reasonable adjustments or application and interview accessibility support can be sent to talent@ft.com.