Product Manager, Marketing, REMOTE

The E.W. Scripps Company is seeking a Product Manager to translate business needs into actionable product requirements and drive day-to-day execution within a cross-functional pod, focusing on systems and workflows behind marketing and creative operations, including digital asset management, creative intake, and AI-driven creative production.

Responsibilities

• Help translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
• Own the day-to-day management of your product's backlog in Atlassian (Jira), including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization.
• Partner with engineering to plan sprints, track delivery progress, and unblock issues as they arise.
• Support tracking of milestones and impact, escalating risks or hygiene issues proactively.
• Work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure solutions address the intended problem.
• Identify interdependencies between initiatives and other pods' work, flagging conflicts early.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and sequencing discussions, bringing data and user insight to prioritization conversations.
• Communicate progress and blockers clearly to your Product Lead and stakeholders.
• Build low-fidelity prototypes and mockups (e.g., Figma, wireframes) to validate concepts with stakeholders before committing engineering resources.
• Use prototypes to pressure-test assumptions and surface edge cases.
• Identify opportunities within your pod's initiatives where AI or automation could improve speed, quality, or cost, and help scope them appropriately.
• Partner with the AI/architecture team to understand platform capabilities (e.g., Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio) and translate them into practical product use cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred; or equivalent work experience.
• Generally, 3+ years of digital and product management experience or related field.

Skills

• Experience in product management, software development, data engineering, or technical project coordination.
• The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa.
• Basic familiarity with agile/scrum practices and tools like Jira or similar work-management platforms.
• Experience with data analysis and interpreting performance metrics.
• Comfortable working across disciplines including engineering, UX, and marketing.

About Scripps

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating connection. As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of more than 60 stations in 40+ markets. Scripps reaches households across the U.S. with national news outlet Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, ION Plus, ION Mystery, Bounce, Grit, and Laff. Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum. Scripps Sports serves professional and college sports leagues, conferences, and teams with local market depth and national broadcast reach of up to 100% of TV households.