3 days ago
Oslo, NorwayStaff+
Responsibilities
- Assess new product ideas for technical feasibility, cost, and risk, and recommend whether to stop, continue, or scale them.
- Build and ship rapid prototypes and experiments using code, AI tools, APIs, and Schibsted platforms.
- Build AI-native media products using language models, agents, and retrieval over journalism content.
- Choose appropriate architectures and technologies for prototypes and evolving production products.
- Collaborate with product, design, editorial, engineering, data, AI, and platform teams.
- Set technical direction across Product Lab initiatives and remain strongly hands-on in implementation.
- Coach engineers joining Lab teams and help strengthen engineering practices and culture.
- Help shape technical teams and potentially take on people management as the Lab grows.
Requirements
- Significant experience building digital and AI products as a software engineer, tech lead, or comparable senior professional.
- Hands-on experience building products or features on AI models, including language-model agents, retrieval, or generated content.
- Experience evaluating AI output quality and operating costs.
- Broad technical skills across front end, back end, APIs, and data sufficient to build complete prototypes.
- Daily experience using coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex, with the ability to explain their appropriate use.
- Experience taking products from prototype to production and making pragmatic trade-offs under uncertainty.
- A track record of stopping features, systems, or products when evidence does not support continuing them.
- Technical leadership, coaching, and the ability to provide direction without formal authority.
- Strong ownership of independent learning and professional growth.
Benefits
- Join the first core team of a new autonomous Product Lab and help shape its culture and ways of working.
- Build on Schibsted’s trusted brands, journalism, data, and millions of users, with successful products able to reach real audiences.
- Work outside existing roadmaps and KPIs with clear decisions at defined points.
- Work on how AI is changing media and journalism consumption across Schibsted’s brands.
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About Schibsted
Schibsted is a Nordic media company that publishes news and runs digital products in Norway and Sweden, including VG, Aftonbladet, Aftenposten, and Svenska Dagbladet. It earns revenue from reader subscriptions, advertising, and branded content across web, apps, and print. Founded in 1839 and headquartered in Oslo, the group recently separated its marketplace operations into Vend.