The New York Times
Technical Product Manager II, Data Platforms
$120K–$142K
New York, NY · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years developing technical products as a product manager or in an equivalent role.
About the job
Shapes product direction for shared data compute and storage capabilities, enabling teams to build and operate data products without managing underlying infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Own strategy for shared compute, streaming, orchestration, lakehouse storage, and connective infrastructure.
- Translate user workflows into product outcomes and priorities; partner with engineering to manage scope, milestones, dependencies, and delivery risks.
- Deliver self-service capabilities and guide products through discovery, launch, adoption, migrations, deprecations, and feedback.
What they ask for
- Experience partnering with engineering teams and platform users to deliver complex technical products.
- Track record using data and structured reasoning to make product decisions and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Understanding of data infrastructure concepts, including pipelines, compute, storage, data modeling, and governance.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts, priorities, and tradeoffs to technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to have
- Background in software development, engineering, data science, or analytics; hands-on experience with data products or platform capabilities.
- Familiarity with processing engines such as Spark, Trino, Flink, Kafka, or Airflow, lakehouse or cloud data infrastructure, or SQL, Python, BigQuery, or Amazon Web Services.
Pay
$120,000 — $142,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Spark, Trino, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, SQL, Python, BigQuery
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