Ian H.
Senior Product Manager, Nyt Games @The New York Times
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Product Manager, Nyt Games @The New York Times
New York, NY, US
Product Lead for the award-winning NYT Games App, leading strategy across platform and feature teams alongside engineering, design, data, and marketing to scale the Games App as our premier content destination• Completed a multi-year “metagame” strategy to evolve NYT Games beyond daily puzzle play by launching Wordle, Connections and Strands Archives, driving subscriber conversion and retention; WordleBot and ConnectionsBot in the Games App; and integrating in-app community forums, growing digital ad revenue• Transformed NYT Games into a social, multi-app ecosystem with the Friends Tab (multi-game leaderboard with social graph) and a Rive-animated Crossplay entry point, driving >1M incremental friendships and a 10% engagement lift for social players, helping Crossplay achieve >2.5M app downloads in its rst 4 weeks• Dened a from-scratch Push Notication strategy in partnership with Messaging Infrastructure teams to create targeted, dynamic daily reminders and streak-savers to drive deeper engagement and habituation• Leveraged AI prototyping tools (v0, Figma Make) to rapidly generate functional prototypes, accelerating design and development cycles and deepening collaboration across product, design, and engineering• Mentored and coached a mid-level PM to a senior-level promotion; manage a PM extern, providing guidance on product craft and career development
EDUCATION
Stevens Institute of Technology
Bachelors of Engineering , Engineering Management
SKILLS
ABOUT IAN H.
Product Leader specializing in consumer mobile apps at scale, known for cross-functional leadership and shipping high-impact features in complex orgs, driving DAU growth, retention, and subscription revenue. Experienced with modern AI tools to think faster, prototype faster, write sharper specs, explore data, and achieve stronger outcomes.
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