Alex Hardiman

Alex Hardiman is the Chief Product Officer at The New York Times where she oversees the company’s News, Cooking, Games and Audio products that power The Times’s subscription and digital advertising businesses. She also leads The Times’s enterprise-wide approach to Generative AI.

Alex has dedicated her career to amplifying high quality, independent journalism through technology. Alex previously spent a decade at The Times in a number of leadership roles before leaving for Facebook in 2016 where she served as Head of News Products. She also spent a year at The Atlantic as their Chief Business and Product Officer where she relaunched the company’s consumer products and subscription business.

In addition to her role at The Times, Alex serves on the board of directors of Pearson.

Alex holds a B.A. in Francophone Literature and History from Columbia University. She is also a graduating fellow of the Punch Sulzberger program at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism.