Director Product Management, Performance and Frameworks

Your New Role

The Director of Product Management, Performance and Frameworks, is responsible for leading a portfolio of four platform pods (Data Privacy, Site Performance, Design System, and Experimentation Tooling) that collectively reduce risk, identify optimizations, and increase organizational confidence across CNN's entire Product, Technology, and Design organization.

Role Accountabilities

• Own the vision and strategy for a portfolio of multiple complex product areas, defining the functional direction and aligning the team on clear metrics goals, priorities and execution

• Actively evaluate and implement AI powered features and workflows that create leverage across the portfolio

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships across Engineering, Privacy, Legal, Design, and Data organizations, representing the portfolio to executive audiences with clarity and championing platform investment

• Serve as the go-to authority for the Platform team on overall compliance priorities, continuously monitoring the evolving landscape and translating regulatory/legal shifts into strategic product decisions

• Develop strong product leaders, and coach PMs by providing strong examples of product work, product thinking, and demonstrating a commitment to fostering a culture of growth

• Establish operating mechanisms that result in clear priorities, remove blockers, deliver end user value, and hold the team accountable for consistent outcomes

• Drive measurable adoption of platform tooling, standards, and best practices across the organization

• Own measurable outcomes, connecting progress on performance, experimentation, Design System, and privacy to clear, quantifiable business results

Qualifications & Experience

• Required: 12+ years of product management experience, with at least 5 years leading and developing product teams in a people leadership role

• Demonstrated experience owning multiple complex product areas simultaneously, defining vision, strategy, and execution for a product portfolio

• Proven ability to operate in environments of high complexity and ambiguity, making clear decisions and driving alignment across the organization

• Track record of driving adoption of platform tooling, standards, or shared systems across a large engineering and product organization

• Experience building and maintaining strategic partnerships across Engineering, Legal, Design, and Data organizations, influencing without formal authority and representing a technical portfolio to executive audiences

• Experience with at least two of the following domains: Site Performance, Design Systems, Experimentation Platforms, Data Privacy and Compliance, and with demonstrated ability to ramp quickly in new areas

• PREFERRED: Ownership of a Design System in a multi-product organization, including driving adoption across product, design and engineering teams

• Familiarity with AI-powered product development and a track record of evaluating and implementing AI workflows that create meaningful leverage

• Familiarity with the regulatory and compliance landscape relevant to digital products, including privacy regulation and accessibility standards, with the ability to translate shifts into strategic product decisions and communicate across the organization

• Familiarity with A/B testing frameworks and driving experimentation culture at scale