Editorial Developer, Schibsted Product Lab

About the role

Schibsted is setting up a Product Lab, a small autonomous team that builds, launches and tests the next generation of its media products with real users. As Editorial Developer you will work at the intersection of journalism, technology, product and design, combining deep editorial understanding with technical curiosity and hands-on experimentation. You will join the Lab's small permanent core team alongside product managers, designers and engineers.

Key responsibilities

• Identify new editorial opportunities and explore how emerging technologies and changing user behaviour could transform journalism.
• Develop, prototype and test new editorial concepts with Product, UX and Tech teams.
• Define the editorial logic of new products, including how information is selected, produced and transformed, and how humans and AI systems collaborate.
• Shape editorial quality and principles such as accuracy, trust, transparency, accountability and editorial independence.
• Assess editorial and operational feasibility, including capabilities, workflows, resources and organisational changes.
• Connect Product Lab with Schibsted's editorial environments and help promising concepts enter existing brands.

Required profile

• Background in editorial development, digital journalism, newsroom innovation, interactive storytelling or editorial product development.
• Hands-on experience with editorial decision-making, journalistic methods and newsroom workflows.
• Experience developing and testing digital editorial products with a user-oriented approach.
• Experience working across editorial, product and technology disciplines.
• Curious, resourceful, collaborative and willing to challenge established assumptions.

Required skills

• Technical fluency and hands-on prototyping, able to build, configure or experiment with code, AI tools, low-code platforms or similar.
• Strong understanding of AI and emerging technologies.
• Experience with AI-native products, editorial automation, data journalism or interactive storytelling is particularly valuable.

What we offer

• Join the Lab's first core team and help shape its culture.
• Work on real products that can later reach VG, Aftonbladet and other Schibsted brands.
• A space to work outside current roadmaps and KPIs, with clear decisions at set points.