Research Product Manager AP Intelligence

Date: Aug 21, 2026 Location:New York, NY, US, 10281Company: Associated PressThe 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, unbiasednews 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 fordeterminingwhat 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 01 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, researchplansand 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 theproductsand establishthe frameworks that allow engineering teams to build them.The role does not have direct reports at theoutset, 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. WhatYou'llDo Research, Prototype & Evaluate * Lead research into ambiguous product questions across event intelligence, structured news data, knowledge graphs, real-time information and 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, experiments and evaluation frameworks. * Work hands-on with AP datasets and product outputs, using tools such as SQL, Python, notebooks, LLMs and lightweight prototypes to test ideas. * Design benchmarks and evaluation methods for dimensions such as accuracy, timeliness, confidence, relevance and usefulness. * Identify patterns that can become scalable schemas, taxonomies, scoring systems and 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, provenance and confidence become useful AP Intelligence capabilities. * Partner with engineering and applied AI teams to identify failure modes, improve product quality and move promising ideas from prototype to production. * Use evidence to recommend which ideas should advance, change or stop and to inform AP Intelligence priorities. Le