The New York Times
Senior Program Manager, People Data and Insights
$155K–$170K
New York, NY · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in product/program management or equivalent delivering data or analytics products; 5+ years translating ambiguous business questions into requirements. Preferred: 3+ years with HR/people data and 3+ years with BI/analytics tooling.
About the job
Leads the People Data & Insights roadmap, translating HR questions into scalable data solutions and driving delivery, adoption, and trust in the resulting insights.
What you'll do
- Own people-data solution roadmap and manage intake, prioritization, delivery, and adoption.
- Translate business questions into requirements and partner with engineering on scoping and execution.
- Support data governance, metric definitions, stakeholder management, and user education.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in product management, program management, or an equivalent role delivering data or analytics products.
- 5+ years translating ambiguous business questions into concrete requirements.
- Ability to read SQL queries and interrogate a data model.
Nice to have
- 3+ years with HR or people data and systems such as Workday or Greenhouse.
- 3+ years with BI and analytics tools such as Hex, Tableau, or Looker.
Pay
$155,000 — $170,000 USD annual base pay
Tools
SQL, Workday, Greenhouse, Hex, Tableau, Looker
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