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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.\nAbout AP Intelligence\nThe Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual, accurateand nonpartisan reporting.\nAP 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.\nBy 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.\nWe 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.\nThe Role\nWe 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.\nYou 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.\nHere, “research” means structured product investigation: framing unanswered questions, working directly with data and product outputs, testing hypotheses, evaluating results and learning from customers.\nThis 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.\nThe 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.\nWhat You’llDo\nResearch, Prototype & Evaluate\nLead research into ambiguous product questions across event intelligence, structured news data, knowledge graphs, real-time informationand AI systems.\n\nTurn 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.\n\nWork hands-on with AP datasets and product outputs, using tools such as SQL, Python, notebooks, LLMsand lightweight prototypes to test ideas.\n\nDesign benchmarks and evaluation methods for dimensions such as accuracy, timeliness, confidence, relevanceand usefulness.\n\nIdentifypatterns that can become scalableschemas, taxonomies, scoring systemsand product capabilities.\n\nDefine Products & Influence the Roadmap\nTranslate research into clear product concepts, requirements and recommendations engineering teams can build.\n\nDefine how concepts such as event importance, impact, velocity, provenanceand confidence become usefulAP Intelligence capabilities.\n\nPartner with engineering and applied AI teams to identifyfailure modes, improve product qualityand move promising ideas from prototype to production.\n\nUse evidence to recommend which ideas should advance, change or stop and to informAP Intelligence priorities.\n\nLearn With Customers & Lead Across Disciplines\nWork directly with prospective customers and design partners to understand workflows, test emerging conceptsand determinewhere AP Intelligence creates meaningful value.\n\nAssess not only whether a capability is technically possible, but whether customers will integrate it, rely on itand pay for it.\n\nPartner closely with journalists, engineers, AI teams, commercial teamsand senior leaders.\n\nSynthesize editorial, technical, customer and commercial perspectives into clear decisions and communicate complex ideas to technical and nontechnical audiences.\n\nWho You Are\nWe expect strong candidates to bring many, but not necessarily all, of the following:\n6+ 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.\n\nA strong track record of taking ambiguous problems and independently turning them into structured questions, experiments and product recommendations.\n\nExceptional analytical and conceptual thinking, with an ability to find patterns in complex information and develop clear points of view from incomplete evidence.\n\nStrong 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.\n\nFamiliarity with structured or semi-structured data and areas such as APIs, taxonomies, ontologies, knowledge graphs, search, retrievalor related information systems.\n\nWorking knowledge of modern AI systems and concepts, including LLMs, RAG, embeddings, information retrieval, structured outputsand model evaluation.\n\nStrong product and customer judgment, including the ability to distinguish an interesting research problem from a capability customers will use and value.\n\nExcellent written and verbal communication skills and comfort working across engineering, AI, journalism, commercial teamsand senior leadership.\n\nExperience 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.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn your first year, you will have:\nTurned important unanswered AP Intelligence questions into rigorous product investigations and clear recommendations.\n\nEstablished benchmarks and evaluation frameworks for emerging capabilities.\n\nHelped define and validatenew event, signaland intelligence capabilities from research through product definition.\n\nInfluenced the AP Intelligence roadmap through evidence from data, customersand experimentation.\n\nWhy This Role\nAP Intelligence sits at an unusual intersection of journalism, data infrastructure, artificial intelligenceand real-world decision-making.\nAP 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.\nFor 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.\nLocation, Salary & Benefits\nThis role may be based in New York, NY or remotely within the United States.\nThe anticipatedsalary range is $140,000-$185,000 , based on a candidate’s skills, qualificationsand location.\nThe 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.\nAP seeks to build an inclusive organization grounded in respect for differences. 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