Specialist, AI Innovation, CNN Digital Products & Services

Your New Role

CNN is seeking a Specialist, AI Innovation to support and drive the day-to-day execution of AI work across the newsroom. This position plays a key role in operationalizing projects and turning ideas into real tools, workflows and editorial use cases that improve how journalists work.

Role Accountabilities

• Manage timelines, priorities and deliverables across a portfolio of AI Innovation projects, ensuring consistent progress across broad, cross-functional teams
• Support intake and prioritization of new ideas and requests from across the newsroom, helping focus efforts on the highest-impact opportunities
• Work closely with reporters, producers and editors to understand workflows and identify practical opportunities for AI to improve day-to-day work
• Uphold CNN’s standards of accuracy, fairness and transparency across AI-powered tools and AI-generated output
• Partner with teams across editorial, product, engineering, legal, and business to keep projects aligned and moving forward
• Champion adoption of AI tools and workflows, including trainings, onboarding and ongoing journalist support

Qualifications & Experience

• 2+ years of experience in a newsroom, digital media organization, or cross-functional role supporting editorial teams
• Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple workflows, prioritize effectively, and deliver against deadlines in a fast-paced newsroom environment
• Strong understanding of newsroom workflows, including reporting, editing, and video production
• Hands-on experience applying AI tools to editorial or product workflows, including prompt development, testing, and evaluating outputs for accuracy and quality
• Experience working with project management systems, data and analytics to assess performance, identify trends, and inform decisions
• Experience collaborating with product and engineering teams on tool development, integrations, or workflow improvements
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams and align stakeholders