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Product Manager, Editorial Jobs in Washington, USA at Warner Bros. Discovery
Position: Staff Product Manager, Editorial Experience
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Who We Are…
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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
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We are CNN. THE WORLD’S MOST ESSENTIAL AND ENGAGING SOURCE OF DIGITAL NEWS. We are in the midst of rapid transformation and need our next generation of innovators, makers, and dreamers who will lead and drive our growth. We aim to make the world a better, more connected place.
Your New Role
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 serves 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.
Your
Role Accountabilities
- 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 with different ways of working to 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 your primary customers.
- Establish platform success metrics including adoption rates across teams, productivity improvements (time‑to‑publish, reduced duplication), system reliability, and user satisfaction using 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 and 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 which addresses 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, especially to support diverse team workflows, heterogenous 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,…
Title: Product Manager, Editorial
Company: Warner Bros. Discovery
Location: Washington, USA
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