Jobs at The Economist Group

Designs and governs end-to-end B2C Salesforce solutions across Core Platform, Service Cloud, Data 360, and Marketing Cloud. The role translates business requirements into scalable architectures, data models, integrations, and technical specifications; leads architecture reviews; establishes Salesforce governance and best practices; evaluates configuration versus custom development; mentors developers; and aligns Product, Engineering, and business stakeholders on technical direction.

Lead and manage an Applied AI and Data Science team while remaining hands-on. Own delivery, architecture, hiring, mentoring, and production quality for generative AI, agentic AI, NLP, predictive analytics, and machine learning systems. Establish standards for evaluation, security, observability, cost, compliance, and AI-native software development. Partner with product, engineering, security, legal, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable AI platforms and reusable capabilities.

Develops content-led marketing strategies across websites and social channels for Economist Impact. Responsibilities include creating content calendars, analyzing audience and platform data, coordinating internal and external stakeholders, producing and adapting multimedia content, optimizing user experience and engagement, amplifying strategic initiatives, and managing commissioning budgets and invoices.

Plans, executes, optimizes, and reports on paid social campaigns across Meta, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, and Reddit. Manages targeting, bids, creative, landing pages, budgets, A/B testing, KPIs, and performance analytics to support B2B lead generation, brand awareness, and engagement. Presents actionable insights to internal stakeholders and clients while collaborating with media, content, sales, and marketing teams.

Prepare monthly management accounts, analyze revenue, costs, headcount, and financial variances, perform balance sheet reconciliations, support reporting and external audits, and conduct financial modeling. The role also drives accounting process improvements, maintains financial controls, resolves reconciliation discrepancies, and coordinates with FP&A and cross-functional stakeholders.

Supports subscription performance reporting and analysis across traffic, engagement, churn, payment failure, and winback. Builds dashboards, leads weekly business reviews, monitors discount efficiency, prepares stakeholder insights, and contributes to forecasting, target setting, lifetime value frameworks, and ad hoc analysis. Collaborates with Customer, Finance, and Data teams to validate metrics, identify risks and opportunities, and improve reporting automation and usability.

Owns end-to-end delivery of major B2C programmes spanning product, engineering, marketing, editorial and commercial teams. Responsibilities include integrated planning, dependency management, governance, risk escalation, stakeholder communication, operational readiness, vendor oversight, benefit tracking and retrospectives. The role requires technical literacy, commercial judgment, senior stakeholder management and accountability for public launch dates.

Leads strategy and a team focused on growing registered users, increasing activation and engagement, building habitual content consumption, and converting users into long-term subscribers. Owns acquisition tactics, lifecycle journeys, experimentation, funnel measurement, audience segmentation, and cross-functional delivery across Product, Editorial, Data, Technology, Creative, and Growth teams.

Lead AI transformation across The Economist’s editorial organization by identifying high-value opportunities, redesigning workflows, building prototypes and AI agents, and taking successful solutions into production. Drive adoption through training and workflow integration, measure usage and business benefits, report progress to senior editorial leaders, and evaluate emerging AI capabilities responsibly. The role requires close collaboration with editorial, business, product, engineering, and platform teams.

Plan, launch, manage, and optimize paid search, paid social, and organic social campaigns focused on customer acquisition and subscription growth. Manage budgets, bidding, audiences, creative, attribution, and performance reporting across platforms including Google Ads and Meta. Partner with creative, analytics, product, editorial, and marketing teams to improve conversion, efficiency, revenue, and lifetime value while maintaining campaign standards and documentation.

Leads conversion-rate optimisation and experimentation across acquisition and retention journeys to improve customer lifetime value, revenue, and marketing efficiency. Owns the testing roadmap, analyses customer and performance data, partners with Product, Engineering, Data, Finance, and Marketing, and presents strategic recommendations to senior leadership. Establishes disciplined marketing operations and test-and-learn processes while managing one direct report.

Own the full lifecycle of high-value corporate partnerships, from prospect research and proposal development through negotiation, launch, performance management, and renewal. Build financial models, lead executive-level commercial discussions, coordinate cross-functional onboarding and delivery, track KPIs, manage CRM reporting, and optimize partnerships to increase subscriptions and revenue.

Lead The Economist AI Lab’s product and engineering strategy across the full 0-to-1 lifecycle. Set the innovation roadmap, lead a multidisciplinary product, design, and engineering team, guide customer discovery and validation, shape architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, and oversee AI-powered product development from prototypes through production. Partner with editorial, platform, data, and commercial teams while maintaining high standards for reliability, provenance, quality, and editorial independence.

Develop and maintain native Android applications using Kotlin and modern frameworks. Build user interfaces and features with Product and Design, contribute to architecture and code quality, write tested code, debug issues, improve performance, integrate backend APIs, and support testing, releases, and CI/CD. Collaborate through code reviews and team engineering practices in a hybrid, remote-first environment.

Develop and maintain native iOS applications using Swift and modern frameworks. Build features and interfaces with Product and Design, contribute to architecture and code quality, write tested code, debug performance issues, integrate backend APIs, participate in code reviews, and support testing, releases, and CI/CD workflows in a collaborative hybrid environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable iOS applications using Swift and modern frameworks. Improve architecture, performance, reliability, testing, CI/CD, and release processes. Collaborate with product, design, backend, and cross-platform teams to deliver user-focused features. Participate in code reviews, technical decisions, debugging, and mobile observability efforts while mentoring engineers and promoting strong engineering practices.

Leads the end-to-end design vision and quality bar for The Economist’s iOS and Android apps. Designs complex mobile experiences hands-on, including reading, audio, video, offline use, subscriptions, accessibility, and emerging AI-enabled features. Partners with product, engineering, research, editorial, and data teams; evolves the mobile design system; uses research, analytics, and experimentation to validate decisions; and mentors designers through influence rather than direct management.

Owns long-term Salesforce architecture and technical strategy across multiple clouds and enterprise systems. Resolves complex architectural challenges, establishes governance and integration standards, evaluates platform and vendor decisions, and influences engineering direction across teams. The role mentors senior engineers and architects, contributes to architecture reviews, and communicates high-stakes technical decisions to executive leadership. Deep Salesforce expertise and enterprise integration experience are required, along with Salesforce Application and System Architect certifications.

Leads and develops a web engineering team while remaining hands-on with React, Next.js, Node.js, and TypeScript. Owns delivery, architecture, product collaboration, web performance, accessibility, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, and technical direction. The role supports high-traffic consumer web experiences, including subscription conversion, engagement, personalization, and retention.

Leads and develops an iOS and Android engineering team while remaining hands-on with code review, architecture, implementation, and technical standards. Owns mobile delivery, planning, prioritization, release practices, CI/CD, app performance, accessibility, testing, and app store operations. Partners with product, design, QA, and platform teams to refine requirements, use product metrics for prioritization, and deliver reliable consumer mobile applications. Also manages recruitment, onboarding, mentorship, and cross-team engineering strategy.