Chief of Product

Coda is seeking an energetic digital publishing leader for the role of Chief of Product. The successful candidate will be able to take charge of developing our editorial products and connect audiences with our ambitious international journalism in a senior management role that spans editorial, product, technology, and revenue strategy. This entails: 

• Guiding strategic decisions on the delivery of our storytelling across platforms and partnerships.
• Identifying the ways our editorial content and products can most effectively contribute to greater public understanding of the topics we cover.
• Grappling with audience metrics, user experience, and revenue models to expand and deepen our audience loyalty and engagement.
• Spearheading newsroom innovation.

The Chief of Product will work side by side with Coda’s Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief to champion our unique editorial mission by growing the reach and impact of our dynamic newsroom of reporters, editors, multimedia producers, and videographers. Our journalists in multiple countries have been recognized for their work on surveillance, disinformation, human rights, historical memory, among other interconnected topics, and have won prestigious awards from investigative reporting to podcasting.

Coda is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to diversity and inclusion and a workplace that centers these principles in our culture and practices. We look to hire staff who are committed to furthering these objectives.

The person in this role will work intensively and holistically on our journalism, audience, and business roadmaps to help us reach ambitious editorial and revenue milestones. This job is about identifying opportunities, setting priorities, working on budgets, understanding emerging technologies underpinning new editorial products, informing our story offerings with new product features, sparking new businesses, and collaborating with our staff across function areas.  

Responsibilities include:

• Defining our product objectives and their market opportunities — including audience and revenue — and establishing success metrics and development cycle.
• Overseeing and maintaining engagement strategies and membership programming in support of our reader revenue and loyalty goals.
• Managing our editorial product creation.
• Implementing a development process that employs analytics and testing for products in alignment with audience goals.
• Overseeing audience growth strategies.
• Guiding strategy on the products underpinning our storytelling and revenue generation.
• Working with our journalists to foster an intellectually curious and collaborative workspace that embraces innovation.

The job is remote-working, full-time, and includes benefits. All global locations are eligible for consideration. To apply, submit a resume and cover letter to anna@codastory.com. We are happy to answer emailed questions but no phone calls please.

 About Coda

We are an award-winning 501(c)3 non-profit newsroom dedicated to journalism that breaks through the noise of the news cycle and tells stories in context. Our journalists investigate the trends that are shaping the world, stay on stories long after they have left the spotlight, and empower readers to see the connections between seemingly unrelated crises. We tell stories on digital platforms, on podcasts, and in videos and film. We have offices in New York City and Tbilisi, Georgia (the two hometowns of Coda’s two co-founders) and staff spread around the world. 

Website: https://www.codastory.com/