Apprentice Product Manager

Duration: 2 Year Apprenticeship

Start Date: January 2027

Location: London Bridge 

Course: Digital Product Manager Level 4

Your team: You will be joining the Times Media - Product team. We shape the digital experiences of The Times and The Sunday Times, helping millions of readers discover, consume, and engage with our journalism across our website and mobile apps. You will collaborate in multidisciplinary groups across three main areas: Content, Customer experience, and Monetisation, working alongside engineers, designers, researchers, delivery managers, and colleagues from our newsroom and commercial teams.

Your role: As a Product Manager Apprentice, you will kickstart your career by learning how to identify problems, explore exciting opportunities, and build digital products for one of the most trusted news brands. Working alongside experienced colleagues, you will gain hands-on exposure to the full product lifecycle from generating ideas to measuring success while investigating how emerging technologies like AI can enhance our offerings. You do not need prior product management knowledge; we are looking for a curious, tech-savvy mindset and an eagerness to understand how digital products operate.

Being an apprentice at News UK: During your time with us, you will earn above the national  living wage while receiving comprehensive, hands-on training. You’ll work 4 days a week with News UK and spend 1 day studying toward a fully funded Digital Product Manager Level 4 qualification. Along with mentorship from top industry professionals, we will provide any tailored support you need to reach your full potential.

Day to day you will:

• Understand our readers using research and analytics.

• Experiment with new ideas, explore AI opportunities.

• Work closely with design and engineering teams, to turn concepts into live features and use data to evaluate their real-world impact for Times subscribers.

What we're looking for from you:

• We are looking for curious, tech-minded individuals with a passion for problem-solving and emerging tools like AI. 

• You should be analytical, customer-focused, and comfortable using data to test assumptions. 

• Excellent communication skills and an experimental, open-minded approach to learning are essential.

Application Process 

Online Application > Google Meet Interview > Assessment Centre

As part of the Online Application process, we would like you to provide answers to the following 3 questions:

• Briefly introduce yourself and tell us why you’re interested in pursuing a career in the apprenticeship you’ve applied to?

• Describe a recent experience or interaction you have had with a digital brand, what did you like about this interaction? What would you change to improve the experience you had?

• Describe a learning curve you recently navigated. Outline the steps you took, the challenges you faced and what the outcome was.

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.

At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.

Benefits

• Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks

• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions

• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes

• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme

• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books

• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities

• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, as well as an extra anniversary day off

• Up to 3 paid volunteering days per year to support causes you care about

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at [email protected] to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.