Careers at The Associated Press

Senior Product Manager, Digital Video & Audio (London, GB)

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting. Founded in 1846, AP today remains the most trusted source of fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and the essential provider of the technology and services vital to the news business. More than half the world's population sees AP journalism every day.

The Associated Press seeks a Senior Product Manager, Digital Video and Audio. This is a full-time position based in London and reporting to the Director, Global Visuals and Audio Products.

Why this role matters:

With oversight of AP’s video and audio supply chain across all regions, this role has an emphasis on modernizing our product portfolio to meet new opportunities and markets. A key priority is enhancing AP’s video footprint on digital platforms. The goal is to achieve new, sustainable revenue while ensuring that our product mix meets evolving market demands as technology, customers, competition and our resources undergo ongoing transformation.

Working with the Global Director, the Senior Product Manager will develop and execute a digital-first product strategy focused on platform-native formats, modular content delivery, and growth in emerging markets. The role will lead execution of related initiatives across teams and regions.

The Senior Product Manager will partner with stakeholders across numerous departments, including editorial, sales, technology, business development, finance and operations as well as among other product leaders. The Senior Manager will also work with customers and other senior stakeholders to develop and maintain a deep understanding of use cases, needs, opportunities and risks.

What you will do:

Own and evolve a product strategy that results in increased global revenue for video.

Deliver consumer insights that drive product roadmaps and ensure our products evolve as our customers’ and audiences’ needs do.

Analyze and anticipate market developments to identify opportunities and risks.

Ensure appropriate U.S. domestic and international product sets, combining and differentiating where needed.

Evaluation and development/implementation of business models, including advertising-based and hybrid monetization strategies for digital video platforms.

Identify and establish key strategic content and technology partners to expand AP’s product capabilities.

Development/management of KPIs, tracking progress against them and reviewing results with senior leadership.

Alignment with editorial management, especially on strategic adjustments to coverage and output for various regions and strategic products

Alignment with technology partners in the monitoring and evaluation of production processes and delivery methods, considering strategic possibilities

Set strategic prioritization for technology projects to align with market opportunities and risk-management objectives, establishing business requirements and oversight of projects until completion.

Protect AP’s intellectual property and also protecting AP from IP risks

Support a metadata strategy that enables data-driven decision making across the organization.

Who you are:

Bachelor’s degree or higher education degree in a relevant discipline preferred.

7+ years of experience in Product or a digital news team, including in senior or leadership roles.

Strong understanding of news video and/or audio content and technology throughout the supply chain, including YouTube publishing and platform strategies.

Experience with B2B content licensing and/or e-commerce licensing platforms strongly preferred.

Demonstrated strategic planning and analytical skills on global-level projects.

Financial analysis skills, including ability to project revenue/profit impacts of various pricing and revenue models.

Facility with data and analysis to develop fact-driven plans and decisions, including use of YouTube Analytics and other video performance tools.

Comfort performing competitive analysis and ability to discern competitive position using market and direct data as well as customer research. Includes analysis of products & perceived value gaps.

Ability to turn product roadmaps into deliverable operational plans and experience with product development in an agile environment.

Familiarity with different departments’ roles in product lifecycle and ability to work effectively with them.

Proven record developing and managing successful relationships with customers, vendors, and other partners.

History of successful business judgement.

Creativity, especially in managing complexity and with constrained resources.

Thrives in and promotes a collaborative team environment.

Why join us:

A mission-driven, inclusive environment focused on both individual and collective success. 
Opportunities for professional development to help you reach your career goals. 
Access to tools, mentorship, and resources tailored to elevate your proficiency and contributions.

Salary & Benefits: 

Competitive salary, based on a candidate’s skills and qualifications. The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, which include:   

Retirement benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid parental leave for any new parent

Mental well-being resources

AP seeks to build an inclusive organization grounded in respect for differences. We support all aspects of diversity and provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, marital status, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, status as a veteran, or other characteristic protected by law.

Solutions Engineer, AP Intelligence (New York, NY, US, 10281)

For nearly 180 years, The Associated Press has set the global standard for accurate, nonpartisan journalism. AP Intelligence is the next evolution of that mission, transforming our firsthand reporting into structured, verified data that’s easy to integrate into any existing technology stack or user flow. Filling a critical gap in the world’s data infrastructure, AP Intelligence enables organizations of all kinds to enrich their models, deepen their analysis, and improve their decisions with a real-time understanding of real-world events.

The AP is expanding the team responsible for driving growth of the AP Intelligence Partner Ecosystem. We are seeking a collaborative, revenue minded Solutions Engineer to join our team. Reporting to Product Leadership for AP Intelligence, this role will identify high-value opportunities across the data ecosystem, develop and validate technical solutions, and lead their implementation with customers, ensuring AP Intelligence delivers meaningful real-world outcomes.

What you will do:

Partnership Development & Commercial Solutioning

- Proactively identify and evaluate new partnership and customer opportunities across data marketplaces, AI infrastructure providers, and enterprise platforms––assessing strategic fit, technical architecture, and commercial potential

- Lead technical discovery, solution scoping and POC engagements alongside product and sales teams, providing technical expertise, outlining the value proposition, and answering product, API, and LLM-related questions. Demonstrate how leveraging AP Intelligence’s APIs combined with data marketplace technology can meet customers’ business needs and deliver substantial business value. This includes developing and scoping customer use cases, building and presenting representative demos that demonstrate the value of AP Intelligence, and communicating the technical detail and value to the customer.

- Develop and nurture strong customer relationships during the evaluation, validation, and purchasing process.

- Evaluate customer environments and advise on integrations directly with AP APIs and across various types of cloud-based data platforms (including Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP, and more).

- Own technical responses in RFPs, security reviews and due diligence

- Support customer security and compliance reviews in partnership with internal teams

- Explain standardized collateral, guiding partners and customers toward relevant resources, and escalating complex requirements to the appropriate teams.

Integration & Onboarding

- Lead technical onboarding, ensuring clean integrations from day one

- Coordinate access provisioning, licensing terms and data delivery workflows with Technology, Product and Legal teams

- Build and maintain onboarding guides, integration playbooks and technical documentation

Ongoing Customer Success & Growth

- Monitor integration health and usage, surface potential churn and expansion opportunities

- Foster partner and customer advocacy and represent the voice of the customer with internal teams by gathering and relaying customer feedback, identifying themes across customers, and incorporating them into product planning.

- Translate technical insights into commercial opportunities for the Revenue team

- Track and report customer health and technical engagement metrics

- Identify whitespace opportunities within the partner ecosystem and propose new commercial structures, use cases, or integrations that expand AP Intelligence’s revenue surface

Who you are:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

5+ years in Solutions Engineering, Technical Business Development, or hybrid technical/commercial role in B2B enterprise data or SaaS

Hands-on experience with cloud-based data platforms

Can demonstrate experience using AWS or other cloud provider technology to build solutions.

Proficiency in Python (preferred) or similar language for building or integrating with data pipelines, RESTful APIs, JSON schemas.

Strong working knowledge of data pipelines, low-latency data concerns (streaming), data query and analysis technologies (ex. SQL), APIs, metadata management and cloud ecosystems

Strong working knowledge and passion for AI technology and concepts including LLMs, RAG, GPTs, MCP/A2A. Track record organizing, planning and executing POC projects from technical discovery through build; communicating status, maintaining project momentum and suggesting pivots when necessary

Have a passion for translating ambiguous business challenges into structured technical solutions

Location:

This position follows a hybrid work model based in AP’s New York headquarters. AP employees are onsite three days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Salary & Benefits:

The anticipated salary range for this position is $125,000 – $143,000, based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and location. The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, which include:

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid parental leave for any new parent

Mental well-being resources

Media Planner (New York, NY, US, 10281)

The Associated Press is seeking a highly detail-oriented and strategic Media Planner to join AP’s B2C effort, building on AP’s reputation, reach and high-quality content to bring unique advertising opportunities direct to the market. This position will report to the Senior Media Planner.

The Media Planner works closely with the Senior Media Planner, sales team, integrated marketing team and the rest of the revenue operations team to develop both custom and standard proposals and media plans, and to assist in building and maintaining relationships with advertisers.

The ideal candidate has knowledge of digital advertising campaign planning and management, including sponsorships, display, video, native solutions, branded content and social media. This role assists with the development of strategies, pricing and media plans to support our sales team. The position plays an integral role in ensuring that every proposal is crafted thoughtfully and tailored to achieve the brand’s objectives. To be considered, you must be motivated, independent, and able to manage multiple projects at a time in a fast-paced environment.

What you will do:

Assist with creating media plans and proposals, both proactively and in response to client requests and RFPs.

Work with Senior Media Planner to provide recommendations using all relevant ad formats and placements (display, video, branded content, social media, high impact and native advertising across desktop, mobile web, in-app and newsletter).

Receive, understand, and react to inquiries and RFPs from brands and agencies, building advertising solutions that meet or exceed their campaign goals.

Participate in brainstorms across internal and external teams and compile ideas into client-facing proposals.

Work with the sales and ad/revenue operations teams to encourage renewals and identify areas for account growth.

Develop advanced proficiency in AP’s ad stack, formats, targeting, monetization capabilities and best practices, and use this knowledge to address client inquiries and inform planning.

Support Senior Media Planner in evaluating inventory, revenue, performance and other data to create plans and pricing that achieve the planned KPI goals and balanced profit margins.

Utilize data platforms to forecast targeted inventory, and to build and utilize segments to reach advertisers’ target audiences. Share insights and learning with integrated marketing and sales teams.

Participate in calls with clients to communicate campaign components, expectations and timelines.

Who you are:

1-2+ years in media planning/sales planning roles at a publisher or agency.

Experience creating ad packages across direct, programmatic guaranteed, preferred and private auction deals.

Experience working across ad formats including display, video, branded content, high impact and native advertising across desktop, mobile web, app and email newsletter.

Possesses the ability to offer creative solutions to grow revenue and provide the optimal client experience.

Comfort with Excel and analyzing data sets to be able to provide recommendations back to either clients directly or various internal teams (pivot tables, VLOOKUP, formulas, charts, etc.).

Experience using a DMP/CDP to organize, analyze and utilize audience segments for planning purposes and campaign targeting is preferred.

Experience utilizing Google Ad Manager and Google Analytics or Looker to run reports, forecast inventory and inform the creation of media plans.

Proficiency in Excel, Outlook, and Microsoft Word is required.

Knowledge of the programmatic landscape, as well as PMP and programmatic guaranteed deals is preferred.

Excellent interpersonal skills for communication across multiple departments and levels of management, as well as with clients and external contacts.

Must be highly motivated, independent and detail oriented.

Must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and within deadlines.

B.A. or B.S. degree or equivalent.

Advanced-level professional competency in written and spoken English language.

Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

Location:

This position follows a hybrid work model based in AP’s New York headquarters. AP employees are onsite three days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Why join us:

A mission-driven, inclusive environment focused on both individual and collective success.

Opportunities for professional development to help you reach your career goals.

Access to tools, mentorship, and resources tailored to elevate your proficiency and contributions.

The anticipated salary range for this position is $68,000-$75,000, contingent on experience and other job-related factors. Employees are eligible to participate in a 401(k) plan and an employer-sponsored health insurance plan, as outlined in the official plan documents. Additionally, they are eligible for paid time off and holidays per AP policy.

The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits which include:

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid parental leave for any new parent

Mental health resources

Application deadline is 11:59pm EST on Friday May 1, 2026

Sr. Director, Reader Revenue Growth & Acquisition (New York, NY, US, 10281)

Why this Role Matters

As The Associated Press continues to diversify its revenue base by investing in its consumer-facing business, we are seeking a Sr Director, Reader Revenue Growth and Acquisition to lead strategy and execution for our fast-growing consumer donations business. This is a revenue leadership role accountable for scaling recurring donations by expanding and activating engaged consumer audiences and converting that engagement into durable financial support for AP’s journalism. You will drive growth through scalable systems, lifecycle strategies, funnel optimization, and experimentation. This relatively new line of business holds significant growth potential and is a key area of investment across the organization.

What You’ll Do:

This person drives growth, user acquisition, and retention to maximize recurring donation revenue and LTV. In this role you will blend marketing, product, and data to design and operate scalable growth systems that turn audience reach into durable financial support. You will manage the donor lifecycle across acquisition, conversion and retention through funnel design and optimization, lifecycle journeys and experimentation -- working closely with product, engineering, and editorial partners. With a compelling brand value proposition and the underlying infrastructure in place to scale growth, you have the opportunity to make an immediate impact to the AP’s bottom line.

Key Responsibilities:

Define and lead scalable growth strategies and systems across acquisition, conversion, and retention

Coordinate with teams to execute marketing campaigns and product-led growth initiatives across on-site and off-site experiences

Conduct data analysis to understand user behavior, cohort performance, and market trends

Drive acquisition and retention of high-intent users across on-site experiences, owned channels (registration, newsletters, app), and paid media.

Identify and test growth levers, analyze results, and scale successful initiatives

Partner with product, engineering, and editorial teams to optimize registration flows, reg walls, on-site acquisition modules, and other conversion experiences.

Partner closely with editorial and audience teams to align growth systems with newsroom priorities.

Shape and own the lifecycle and retention strategies that increase return frequency, engagement depth, and recurring donor conversion

Improve our capabilities and operational processes to enable faster growth and ensure quality of our user experience and system

Apply financial acumen; able to align strategy and initiatives to business outcomes

Who You Are:

10+ years of experience leading subscription or donations revenue growth, including ownership of revenue strategy and/or P&L performance in a fast-growing consumer business

Direct experience building, scaling, or operating a reader-revenue or donations business within a media or mission-driven organization

Demonstrated expertise in the dynamics of digital subscription or recurring B2C revenue

Experience with donor tools and systems, lifecycle stewardship, and retention tactics that drive recurring contributions

Strong knowledge of digital marketing channels and strategies

Proficiency in data analysis and performance metrics

Excellent project management skills and ability to lead cross-functional teams

Experience with A/B testing, funnel optimization, and user engagement strategies

Strong decision-making skills based on data-driven insights

The ability to communicate clearly and regularly with teams, stakeholders, and executives to align on progress, challenges, and opportunities

Location:

This position follows a hybrid work model based in AP’s New York headquarters. AP employees are onsite three days a week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Salary & Benefits:

The anticipated salary range for this position is $190,000 – $220,000, based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and location. The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, which include:

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid parental leave for any new parent

Mental well-being resources

Sales Operations Specialist (New York, NY, US, 10281)

The AP is seeking a Sales Operations Specialist to support our Americas Revenue team as we launch AP Intelligence and continue to expand content licensing across industries and platforms. In this role, you'll be instrumental in enabling our sales teams to successfully bring AP Intelligence and our growing data, tech and AI business to market.

As a Sales Operations Specialist, you'll work at the intersection of sales strategy, data, and process optimization during a critical growth phase for the organization. You'll collaborate closely with Revenue leadership, Sales, Marketing, and Product teams to ensure our go-to-market motion is efficient, scalable, and data-driven. You’ll support our AP Intelligence Sales cycle, with related cross-functional support for our other Americas B2B sales teams as needed.

This role reports to the Senior Director of Global Customer Operations.

What You'll Do:

Prioritize support for AP Intelligence and related data, technology, and AI initiatives, aligned with business priorities.
Prepare accurate contracts and orders when directed and process sales orders in a timely manner; ensure accurate billing.
Ensure sales pipelines are accurate at all times and updated using Salesforce
Ensure agreements and other orders are processed quickly and efficiently.
Support smooth daily operations with a customer-first mindset and assist account directors with onboarding and service activation, including coordinating handoff to Customer Engagement.
Collaborate with manager on the design and implementation of sales processes, workflows, and best practices to support AP Intelligence, sharing knowledge with other revenue teams and owning documentation.
Create and optimize CRM workflows, dashboards, and reporting infrastructure to track pipeline and revenue metrics.
Identify bottlenecks in the sales cycle and implement solutions to improve conversion rates and deal velocity.
Work across departments to help solve billing, legal, support and service issues.
Crosstrain and collaborate with other sales operations teams to provide coverage and manage overflow.

Who You Are:

3+ years of experience in sales operations, revenue operations, or business operations.
Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets and data visualization tools.
Experience with Salesforce.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet deadlines.
Excellent communication skills with ability to translate data insights into actionable recommendations.
Process-oriented mindset with attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
Self-starter who thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments.
Curious problem-solver who asks "why" and seeks continuous improvement.
Collaborative team player who builds strong cross-functional relationships.
Passion for leveraging technology and data to drive business outcomes.
Advanced-level professional competency in written and spoken English language.
Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

What Will Set You Apart:

Experience supporting B2B SaaS or enterprise software sales teams.
Familiarity with AI/ML industry, data products, or enterprise data services.
Background in subscription or usage-based business models.
SQL skills or experience with business intelligence tools (Tableau, Looker, Power BI).

Location:

This is a 100% fully remote role open to candidates based in and authorized to work in the United States.

Salary & Benefits:

The anticipated salary range for this position is $65,000 - $78,000, based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and location.

The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, which include:

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage
Retirement benefits
Company paid life insurance
Paid vacation and sick days
Paid parental leave for any new parent
Mental well-being resources

Application deadline is May 4th at 11:59PM ET.

Audience Data Strategist (New York, NY, US, 10281)

As an Audience Data Strategist, you'll be the bridge between data and decision-making across our digital publishing platforms. You'll uncover patterns in how millions of users discover, consume, and engage with AP journalism and then translate those insights into strategies that inform editorial priorities, product development, and revenue optimization. This role requires someone who can speak both the language of data and the language of newsrooms, comfortable presenting findings to both engineering teams and editorial leadership.

What You'll Do

Uncover Audience Insights & Content Trends

Mine large datasets using Google Analytics 4, Looker Enterprise, and Hex.Tech to then identify patterns in audience behavior, content performance, and engagement trends across our publishing platforms
Discover opportunities in user journeys, content placement, and engagement funnels that drive strategic recommendations for homepage optimization, recirculation strategies, and content distribution
Analyze how different audience segments interact with our journalism and identify opportunities to deepen engagement and build loyalty

Translate Data Into Strategic Recommendations

Transform complex audience data into compelling narratives that inform editorial strategy, product roadmaps, and monetization decisions
Build relationships with editorial teams to understand their questions and translate them into data-driven insights about what content resonates, when, and with whom
Partner with product managers and engineers to identify data patterns that reveal opportunities for platform improvements and new features

Create Insights Through Advanced Analytics Tools

Use SQL, Python, and R to query large datasets, identify trends, and build repeatable analyses that surface actionable insights about content performance and audience behavior
Design and build dashboards in Looker Enterprise and Hex.Tech that make complex audience patterns accessible to non-technical stakeholders
Implement tracking strategies in Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager to ensure we're capturing the right data to answer critical business questions

Drive Revenue & Engagement Optimization

Uncover patterns in highly engaged users and design strategies to grow this valuable audience segment
Evaluate A/B tests and product experiments to determine impact on engagement, retention, and revenue metrics

Partner Across the Organization

Build trusted relationships with editorial leaders, helping them understand audience trends and content performance patterns
Collaborate with technical teams (data engineering, product development) to ensure data infrastructure supports strategic decision-making
Communicate findings to diverse stakeholders; from reporters asking about story performance to executives evaluating strategic priorities

What You Bring

Publishing & Audience Analytics Background

3+ years professional experience working with content analytics, audience insights, or digital publishing platforms
Deep experience with Google Analytics 4 in an enterprise publishing environment; you understand pageviews, sessions, engagement metrics, and user journeys in the context of editorial content
Proven track record of uncovering actionable insights from large datasets related to content performance, audience behavior, or user engagement

Analytics Tools & Platforms

Hands-on experience with Looker Enterprise for building dashboards and exploring data
Familiarity with Hex.Tech or similar collaborative analytics platforms for reproducible analysis
Practical experience using SQL to query datasets and Python to analyze patterns and trends (you don't need to be a software engineer, but you should be comfortable writing queries and scripts to answer questions)
Experience implementing and managing Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4), including custom-event tracking

Strategic Thinking & Communication

Ability to identify patterns and trends in data that others might miss, then articulate why they matter
Comfort translating technical findings into strategic recommendations for non-technical audiences; you can explain user behavior patterns to editorial teams and technical requirements to data engineers
Track record of building relationships across diverse teams: working with both highly technical stakeholders (data engineers, developers) and creative/strategic leaders (editors, product managers, executives)

Publishing Domain Knowledge

Understanding of how audiences discover and consume news content across platforms (web, mobile web, apps)
Familiarity with content management systems, homepage modules, recirculation strategies, and the metrics that matter in digital publishing
Interest in questions like: What makes content engaging? How do users navigate between stories? What drives return visits and loyalty?

Personal Attributes

Curiosity about audience behavior and a passion for understanding why users make the choices they do
Collaborative approach—you see your role as enabling others to make better decisions, not gatekeeping data
Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to define your own analyses when questions are open-ended
Adaptability to propose new approaches, test them, and iterate based on results

Nice to Have

Experience with donation, subscription, or reader revenue analytics in publishing
Background working with BigQuery or other large-scale data warehousing platforms
Familiarity with content recommendation systems or personalization strategies
Experience with A/B testing platforms and experimental design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field (Communications, Journalism, Statistics, Data Science, Marketing) or equivalent experience in digital publishing analytics

Hybrid

We are a hybrid environment on-site three days a week.

Salary & Benefits:  

The anticipated salary range for this position is $103,000 – 128,000 , based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications and location. The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, which include:    

Competitive medical, dental and vision coverage

Retirement benefits

Company paid life insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid parental leave for any new parent

Mental well-being resources