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We're a network of senior professionals who love solving interesting problems. Our engagements sit at the intersection of product strategy, AI systems, and marketing technology — and the people we work with tend to stick around because the work is genuinely fun. If you're the kind of person who gets energized by ambiguity, likes shipping real things, and wants to work with a small team that punches well above its weight, we'd love to hear from you.

Open Roles

All roles are contract-based and remote. Reach out at careers@summerfriday.co with your resume and a short note about why you're interested.

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Product Manager, Marketing Technology

New York Times — Marketing

We're looking for a product manager to lead workstream planning and delivery for our ongoing marketing technology engagement with The New York Times. You'll own the roadmap for AI-powered marketing systems, translate stakeholder needs into clear specs, and keep a cross-functional team shipping on cadence.

What you'll do

  • •Own the product roadmap for AI-driven marketing tools and systems across the engagement
  • •Translate stakeholder requirements into clear briefs, user stories, and acceptance criteria
  • •Run sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives with a small cross-functional team
  • •Coordinate with NYT marketing leads to prioritize initiatives against business impact
  • •Define success metrics for each workstream and report on progress to both internal and client leadership
  • •Identify opportunities to apply AI to marketing workflows — content production, audience targeting, campaign optimization
  • •Manage scope, timeline, and trade-off decisions with minimal escalation

What we're looking for

  • •5+ years of product management experience, ideally in marketing technology or media
  • •Experience working on contract or agency engagements with enterprise clients
  • •Strong understanding of marketing operations — campaigns, content pipelines, audience systems
  • •Comfort with AI/ML concepts and how they apply to real marketing workflows
  • •Excellent written communication — you write specs that engineers actually want to read
  • •Track record of shipping in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
  • •Experience with tools like Jira, Linear, Notion, or similar for project tracking

Nice to have

  • •Background in media, publishing, or subscription businesses
  • •Hands-on experience with AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Midjourney, etc.)
  • •Familiarity with marketing automation platforms (Braze, Iterable, Salesforce Marketing Cloud)
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Software Engineer, AI Systems

New York Times — Marketing

We need an engineer who can build and ship AI-powered marketing systems for our engagement with The New York Times. You'll work across the stack — from data pipelines and API integrations to front-end tools that marketing teams actually use day-to-day. This is hands-on, high-impact work where what you build goes live fast.

What you'll do

  • •Design, build, and deploy AI-powered tools for marketing workflows — content generation, campaign optimization, audience analysis
  • •Integrate with NYT's existing marketing stack and data infrastructure
  • •Build reliable data pipelines that feed AI models with the right context
  • •Develop internal-facing UIs and dashboards that make AI systems accessible to non-technical users
  • •Collaborate with the product manager to scope technical solutions and estimate effort
  • •Write clean, well-tested code that other engineers can maintain and extend
  • •Participate in architecture decisions and technical trade-off discussions

What we're looking for

  • •4+ years of software engineering experience with production systems
  • •Strong proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript and Python
  • •Experience building with LLM APIs (Claude, OpenAI, etc.) — prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, tool use
  • •Comfortable across the stack: APIs, databases, front-end (React/Next.js preferred)
  • •Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar)
  • •Ability to work independently, ship iteratively, and communicate progress clearly
  • •Familiarity with CI/CD, testing, and production monitoring

Nice to have

  • •Experience in media, publishing, or adtech
  • •Familiarity with marketing platforms and data (Braze, Segment, BigQuery)
  • •Contributions to open-source projects or personal AI/ML projects
  • •Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or agent frameworks
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