Staff Product Manager

About

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 serve 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.

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 understand complex workflows across varied teams, 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 primary customers.
• Establish platform success metrics—including adoption rates, productivity improvements (time‑to‑publish, reduced duplication), system reliability, and user satisfaction—and use 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, 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 addressing 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 to support diverse team workflows, heterogeneous 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.
• Experience with complex stakeholder management and exceptional ability to navigate competing priorities and feedback across multiple stakeholder teams and engineering organizations; a background in consulting or professional services is an asset.
• Track record of effective user research and empathy on work‑tracking workflow pain points, 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: $142,800 – $265,200 per year (base pay).
• Additional rewards may include annual bonuses, short‑ and long‑term incentives, and program‑specific awards.
• Benefits include health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, sick time, and vacation.