Sr. Manager BI & Data Products (AJC)

Cox Enterprises • Atlanta, GA

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

As the AJC continues its transformation into a modern media company, the Data and Technology team is modernizing its data stack and reporting portfolio. To support this work, we are seeking a Senior Manager, Business Intelligence & Data Products. The Senior Manager, Business Intelligence & Data Products is responsible for owning the organization’s reporting layer and data products that power decision making across Product, Marketing, Editorial, Finance, and Executive leadership. This role sits at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and business strategy—translating data into trusted, scalable, and well governed data products. This is a hands-on leadership role. The Senior Manager manages BI developers and analysts while also setting standards for how BI work is prioritized, developed, and governed across teams. In addition to owning metric definitions, semantic models, and executive-facing dashboards, this role establishes consistent BI methodologies and operating approaches, partners closely with Data Engineering and Analytics leadership, and ensures a single, trusted view of the business at scale. At The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC), our mission is to be the most essential and engaging source of news for the people of Atlanta, Georgia and the South. As we transition from a historic daily newspaper to a dynamic modern media company, we are seeking a talented Sr Manager, BI & Data Products to join our team. The AJC believes that when you cover the South, you uncover the nation. It’s a belief that’s produced award-winning journalism, elevated our community, and captured the substance and soul of our hometown. If you're ready to make headlines with your talent and drive, we want you on our team. Apply now and be a part of the next chapter in the AJC’s transformation.

Requirements

• Must live within a commutable distance to AJC Midtown Atlanta office
• 8+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data engineering roles
• 3+ years managing BI or analytics teams
• Expertise in SQL and strong experience working with Data Engineering teams
• Strong experience with BI tools (Tableau required)
• Proven experience building executive-level dashboards and data products
• Demonstrated product mindset, including owning a roadmap, prioritizing work based on impact, and managing stakeholder expectations
• Experience defining requirements, success metrics, and adoption goals for data products
• Experience partnering closely with Product Management on roadmap planning and prioritization
• Ability to balance technical depth with business context

Nice To Haves

• Experience in subscriptions, digital media, SaaS, or consumer digital businesses
• Familiarity with modern data stacks (Snowflake, dbt, cloud data warehouses)
• Experience partnering with cross-functional teams on metric frameworks
• Exposure to product analytics tools (e.g., Amplitude) and semantic layers
• Experience applying product management concepts (e.g., user needs, MVPs, iteration, lifecycle management) to data products
• Familiarity with Agile Methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban

Responsibilities

• Own BI & Data Product Strategy
• Build Trusted, Scalable Data Products
• Lead Reporting & Self-Service Enablement
• Manage & Develop the BI Team
• Partner Cross-Functionally
• Governance & Quality

Benefits

• The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company’s needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members.
• Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
• Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed