Product Manager, AI at Versant3

About the Role

The AI Product Manager will lead the vision, strategy, and execution of artificial intelligence initiatives that transform how audiences discover, consume, and engage across CNBC, MS NOW and E!. This role bridges technology, editorial, and business priorities—leveraging machine learning, natural language processing, and generative AI to power personalization, recommendations, tagging, summarization, and content creation tools.

Key Responsibilities

• →Collaborate with product and tech leadership to define and execute the AI product strategy, enhancing news discovery, personalization, and content creation experiences.
• →Identify opportunities to leverage machine learning, NLP, and generative AI to improve editorial workflows and audience engagement.
• →Partner with newsroom, design, and engineering teams to translate journalistic needs into scalable AI solutions.
• →Own the roadmap for AI-driven features such as recommendations, summarization, tagging, transcription, and semantic search.
• →Evaluate and integrate third-party AI tools while ensuring alignment with brand standards, data privacy, and ethics policies.
• →Collaborate with data scientists to design and validate models that improve user retention and content relevance.
• →Establish success metrics and analyze the performance of AI initiatives using A/B testing and analytics.
• →Communicate complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders in clear, actionable terms.
• →Ensure AI systems support editorial integrity, bias mitigation, and responsible use of automation.
• →Partner with data governance and legal teams to maintain compliance with evolving AI regulations.
• →Drive continuous learning within the organization by sharing insights, prototypes, and emerging trends.