Staff Product Manager, Editorial Experience

SupportFinity™; Washington; On-site; USD 143,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Wellness program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Sick time

Vacation

Job summary

Warner Bros. Discovery is seeking a Staff Product Manager for the Editorial Experience platform at CNN.

You will define the strategy and requirements for the newsroom’s next-generation work tracking and collaboration system, enabling global scale and cross-team coordination. You will partner with newsroom leaders, engineers, designers, and producers to design core platform capabilities, drive adoption, and measure impact with clear metrics like time-to-publish and content throughput across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience with 2+ years on B2B collaboration platforms, workflow tools, or editorial/content production systems at scale.
• Editorial or newsroom workflow experience addressing content production across formats and deadlines.
• Experience in platform and systems thinking, APIs, data models, and CMS with real-time collaboration; able to collaborate with Engineering partners.
• Experience with complex stakeholder management and cross-team coordination; consulting background is a plus.
• Track record of user research and driving platform adoption through strong UX with Design partners.
• Data-driven product management with metrics to inform prioritization and ROI for work-tracking capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Execute and iterate on the platform strategy for an editorial work tracking system with real-time collaboration and visibility capabilities.
• Partner with leaders, engineers, designers, and newsroom stakeholders to streamline story production and improve cross-team coordination.
• Design and deliver core platform capabilities that provide visibility into work-in-flight across the organization.
• Drive platform adoption across editorial teams with excellent user experiences, docs, training, and adoption strategies.
• Establish platform success metrics and use data insights to demonstrate business impact.

Skills

Product management

B2B platforms

Editorial workflows

Platform thinking

APIs

CMS

Real-time collaboration

Job description

Staff Product Manager, Editorial Experience

CNN |

CNN | Posted Mar 2

Full-time

Washington

Unknown

Welcome to Warner Bros. Discovery… the stuff dreams are made of.

Who We Are…

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

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We are CNN. THE WORLD'S MOST ESSENTIAL AND ENGAGING SOURCE OF DIGITAL NEWS. We are in the midst of rapid transformation and need our next generation of innovators, makers, and dreamers who will lead and drive our growth. We aim to make the world a better, more connected place.

Your New Role

The Staff Product Manager is responsible for CNN's next-generation news work tracking and collaboration platform, the foundational system that enables our newsroom to coordinate story development, asset production, and cross-team workflows at a global scale. You will define and realize the platform strategy and requirements that serves as the connective tissue across our news and media teams. This role requires familiarity with newsroom workflows and the ability to develop platform capabilities to deliver measurable improvements in editorial efficiency and coordination.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Execute and iterate on the platform strategy for an editorial work tracking system with real-time collaboration and visibility capabilities.
• Partner with leaders, engineers, designers, and newsroom stakeholders to understand complex workflows across varied teams with different ways of working to streamline story production, reduce work duplication, and improve cross-team coordination.
• Design and deliver core platform capabilities that create comprehensive visibility into work-in-flight across the organization.
• Drive platform adoption across many editorial teams by creating exceptional user experiences, comprehensive documentation, training materials, and adoption strategies, treating journalists, editors, and producers as your primary customers.
• Establish platform success metrics including adoption rates across teams, productivity improvements (time-to-publish, reduced duplication), system reliability, and user satisfaction using data insights to drive continuous improvement and demonstrate business impact.
• Shape integration strategy with a range of content management systems and enterprise systems to facilitate multidirectional data flow and seamless workflows that aid editorial planning and content programming coordination.
• Serve as subject matter expert on editorial work tracking and collaboration platforms and present platform strategy to executive audiences, manage cross-team product dependencies, and advocate for platform investments alongside customer-facing product initiatives.

Qualifications & Experience…

• 8+ years of product management experience with 2+ years on B2B collaboration platforms, workflow tools, or editorial/content production systems at scale.
• Editorial or newsroom workflow experience which addresses content production and the unique needs of editorial teams working across multiple formats (text, video, graphics), geographies, and tight deadlines.
• Experience in platform and systems thinking, especially to support diverse team workflows, heterogenous metadata structures, and cross-team coordination and collaboration. Highly preferred experience includes technical depth regarding APIs, data models, content management systems, real-time collaboration technologies, and integration patterns, all to collaborate on architectural decisions with Engineering partners.
• Experience with complex stakeholder management and exceptional ability to navigate competing priorities and feedback across multiple stakeholder teams and engineering organizations. A background that includes work in a consulting or professional services capacity will be an asset.
• A track record of effective user research and empathy on work tracking workflow pain points, and driving high platform adoption through superior user experience with Product Design partners.
• Data-driven platform product management defining and tracking platform metrics (adoption by team, content throughput, workflow efficiency, system performance) to inform prioritization and demonstrate ROI regarding work tracking capabilities or products.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $142,800.00 - $265,200.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

About the company

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