Research Product Manager AP Intelligence

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.

About AP Intelligence

The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual, accurateand nonpartisan reporting.

AP Intelligence is building a new intelligence layer on top of AP’s global reporting-transforming verified journalism into structured facts, events, entities, relationships and signals that machines and people can use in real time.

By combining AP’s firsthand reporting, editorial standards, historical depth and global reach with modern data and AI infrastructure, AP Intelligence creates machine-readable intelligence that can be integrated into models, applicationsand decision systems.

We are expanding the product team responsible for determiningwhat intelligence can be derived from AP reporting, how we know it is useful and reliable, and which capabilities should become scalable products.

The Role

We are seekingan intellectually curious, highly analytical Research Product Managerto lead research and product definition for emerging AP Intelligence capabilities.This is a 0→1 individual contributor role. Much of the work begins before there is a roadmap-and sometimes before the precise product problem is fully understood.

You will turn broad questions into structured hypotheses, research plansand experiments; investigate them using data, customer conversationsand lightweight prototypes; and translate what you learn into clear product decisions and requirements.

Here, “research” means structured product investigation: framing unanswered questions, working directly with data and product outputs, testing hypotheses, evaluating results and learning from customers.

This is not a traditional feature-delivery PM role. You will help discover the problems, define the productsand establishthe frameworks that allow engineering teams to build them.

The role does not have direct reports at the outset, butoffers significant ownership and visibility. As AP Intelligence grows, its scope may expand based on business needs and the individual’s strengths and interests, including deeper product leadership, domain ownershipor peopleleadership.

What You’llDo

Research, Prototype & Evaluate

• Lead research into ambiguous product questions across event intelligence, structured news data, knowledge graphs, real-time informationand AI systems.

• Turn questions such as “What makes an event important?”or “How should we measure whether a signal is reliable and useful?”into hypotheses, experimentsand evaluation frameworks.

• Work hands-on with AP datasets and product outputs, using tools such as SQL, Python, notebooks, LLMsand lightweight prototypes to test ideas.

• Design benchmarks and evaluation methods for dimensions such as accuracy, timeliness, confidence, relevanceand usefulness.

• Identifypatterns that can become scalableschemas, taxonomies, scoring systemsand product capabilities.

Define Products & Influence the Roadmap

• Translate research into clear product concepts, requirements and recommendations engineering teams can build.

• Define how concepts such as event importance, impact, velocity, provenanceand confidence become usefulAP Intelligence capabilities.

• Partner with engineering and applied AI teams to identifyfailure modes, improve product qualityand move promising ideas from prototype to production.

• Use evidence to recommend which ideas should advance, change or stop and to informAP Intelligence priorities.

Learn With Customers & Lead Across Disciplines

• Work directly with prospective customers and design partners to understand workflows, test emerging conceptsand determinewhere AP Intelligence creates meaningful value.

• Assess not only whether a capability is technically possible, but whether customers will integrate it, rely on itand pay for it.

• Partner closely with journalists, engineers, AI teams, commercial teamsand senior leaders.

• Synthesize editorial, technical, customer and commercial perspectives into clear decisions and communicate complex ideas to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Who You Are

We expect strong candidates to bring many, but not necessarily all, of the following:

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience, including significant experiencein product management, data products, AI/ML products, applied research, search/information systemsor another highly analytical product environment. We care more about demonstrated0→1 product ownership and judgment than a conventional career path.

• A strong track record of taking ambiguous problems and independently turning them into structured questions, experiments and product recommendations.

• Exceptional analytical and conceptual thinking, with an ability to find patterns in complex information and develop clear points of view from incomplete evidence.

• Strong technical and data fluency. You do not need to be a production engineer, but should be comfortable exploring datasets, interrogating outputs and building lightweight analyses or prototypes.

• Familiarity with structured or semi-structured data and areas such as APIs, taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, search, retrievalor related information systems.

• Working knowledge of modern AI systems and concepts, including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, information retrieval, structured outputsand model evaluation.

• Strong product and customer judgment, including the ability to distinguish an interesting research problem from a capability customers will use and value.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort working across engineering, AI, journalism, commercial teamsand senior leadership.

Experience with AI/ML products, knowledge graphs, search/retrieval, real-time or event-driven data, intelligence platforms, AI evaluation, financial/risk/geopolitical information products, or early-stage 0→1 environments isespecially relevant, butnot required.

What Success Looks Like

In your first year, you will have:

• Turned important unanswered AP Intelligence questions into rigorous product investigations and clear recommendations.

• Established benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for emerging capabilities.

• Helped define and validatenew event, signaland intelligence capabilities from research through product definition.

• Influenced the AP Intelligence roadmap through evidence from data, customersand experimentation.

Why This Role

AP Intelligence sits at an unusual intersection of journalism, data infrastructure, artificial intelligenceand real-world decision-making.

AP has spent nearly twocenturies building a global system for determiningwhat happened, verifying it and communicating it accurately. AP Intelligence is exploring what becomes possible when that same reporting is structured for machines.

For someone who enjoys ambiguous problems, data, emerging technologyand building new products, this is an opportunity to help define a new category of product for AP.

Location, Salary & Benefits

This role may be based in New York, NY or remotely within the United States.

The anticipatedsalary range is $140,000-$185,000 , based on a candidate’s skills, qualificationsand location.

The Associated Press offers comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage; retirement benefits; company-paid life insurance; paid vacation and sick days; paid parental leave; and 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.