CareerPlan

Staff Product Manager, New Business Underscored

NY New York 30 Hudson Yards, USFull-time$133k–$247k2026-07-24 → 2026-11-11

Core

Own the end-to-end user journey and product lifecycle for CNN Underscored, a digital shopping guidance platform, translating user insights into a trusted experience from discovery to decision.

Role type

Staff Product Manager (New Business)

Builds

CNN Underscored (digital shopping guidance platform)

Domain

Media & Entertainment / E-commerce

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

End-to-end product lifecycle ownership, user research, persona development, Jobs-to-be-Done (JTBD) frameworks, cross-functional leadership, strategic product definition, MVP execution, performance metrics definition

Preferred skills

Experience in shopping, commerce, decision-making, or loyalty spaces, editorial content curiosity

Technologies

None stated

Responsibilities

Lead the end-to-end experience and user lifecycle of Underscored; Investigate user segments and shopping habits to identify friction points; Partner with Design, UX Research, Engineering, and Editorial leads to translate insights into product hypotheses and solutions; Define core performance metrics balancing business goals with user utility; Generate product briefs and user stories; Lead the execution of an MVP and iterate based on user and business needs