Technology Product Manager

About the Role

TEGNA Inc. is seeking a Product Manager to lead the enhancement of its internal CMS/digital publishing platform and a native mobile collaboration application. This role involves partnering with editorial leaders, newsroom teams, and engineering organizations to translate complex workflows into intuitive, high-impact solutions that support journalists and producers in planning coverage, creating stories, collaborating in real time, and publishing content across multiple channels.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product discovery, definition, and lifecycle for the internal enterprise CMS and mobile collaboration platform.
• Gather requirements from newsrooms, business stakeholders, and technical teams; translate them into clear, testable epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria ready for development.
• Maintain a healthy, prioritized backlog across both products.
• Lead refinement sessions to ensure stories are well-defined, dependencies are identified, and technical constraints are understood before engineering begins.
• Build strong partnerships with Editorial leadership, business stakeholders, and newsroom teams to deeply understand current-state workflows, pain points, controls, and desired outcomes.
• Spend regular time observing how journalists, editors, photographers, and producers work to inform product decisions.
• Collaborate closely with Engineering teams throughout sprint cycles—from refinement through delivery.
• Develop a strong understanding of the software development process; communicate feature requirements clearly in developer-friendly language; and work pragmatically within technical constraints and dependencies.
• Lead agile planning, sprint execution, backlog refinement, and release planning using agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) to establish predictable delivery cadence.
• Manage scope, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations—balancing internal customer value with technical debt, platform constraints, and risk considerations.
• Establish traceability from customer requirements through delivery and release. Support UAT, demos, and acceptance sign-off to validate that shipped features meet intended outcomes.
• Monitor post-release feedback, adoption metrics, and operational KPIs. Drive continuous improvement cycles to reduce rework, improve user satisfaction, and enhance system performance.
• Lead stakeholder communications covering roadmap priorities, release plans, dependencies, tradeoffs, risks, and post-launch performance across editorial, engineering, and business teams.

Requirements

• 4+ years of Product Management or Product Owner experience with demonstrated ownership of customer-facing products or internal platform systems.
• Familiarity with content management systems, digital publishing platforms, media asset management systems (MAM), or collaborative editing tools.
• Strong understanding of the software development process and lifecycle. Comfortable discussing technical constraints, dependencies, and design trade-offs with engineers.
• Ability to write clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria that developers can act on.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum delivery teams and managing backlogs in Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools. Familiarity with agile frameworks and workflow principles.
• Demonstrated success gathering requirements from diverse stakeholders, translating them into actionable product requirements, and validating solutions with customers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences—from engineers to editorial leadership.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and decision-making skills. Comfortable making tradeoff decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments.
• Data-informed decision maker with experience defining, measuring, and improving product outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of newsroom operations, editorial workflows, journalism, or media technology.
• Experience with analytics platforms (e.g., Amplitude) to measure adoption, engagement, and feature success.
• Familiarity with enterprise integration concepts (APIs, data flows, identity/access management).
• Experience with governance, risk, and compliance requirements (audit readiness, data privacy).
• Proficiency with tools like Confluence, Figma, Visio/Lucid, and Microsoft Suite.

Key Competencies

• Stakeholder facilitation and influence without authority.
• Process-oriented mindset (current-state analysis, future-state design).
• Technical acumen and ability to translate between engineering and business languages.
• Customer empathy and user-centric product thinking.
• Clarity in defining requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Pragmatic prioritization and tradeoff management.
• Organized, proactive ownership with strong accountability.
• Comfort working in fast-paced, iterative, cross-functional environments.

Success Measures

• Requirements are consistently captured, validated, and translated into clear epics and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Backlog health improves across both platforms (fewer clarifications mid-sprint, reduced rework, clear prioritization).
• Internal stakeholders report improved alignment, transparency, and predictability of delivery.
• Delivered features improve newsroom workflow efficiency and user satisfaction metrics.
• Engineering team reports clear requirements, fewer blocking dependencies, and efficient sprint execution.

Pay

$100,000—$150,000 USD

Benefits

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental, and financial health of our employees and their families. Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage; fertility, surrogacy, and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance; a 401(k) program with company match; free virtual doctor’s appointments and therapy sessions; generous Paid Time Off (PTO); and nine paid holidays per year. Note: Some roles may be covered by collective bargaining agreements, affecting benefit eligibility.