Senior Technical Program Manager leading CNN’s complex technology programs across product, engineering, design, and operations. Driving architecture-informed delivery, executive alignment, launches, adoption, and measurable outcomes.
Responsibilities
Lead a portfolio of high-priority, cross-organization technical programs from early problem framing through execution, launch, adoption, and measurable business or customer impact
Turn broad goals into program strategies, outcome metrics, decision rights, sequencing, governance, and executable plans across multiple teams
Build and maintain integrated plans, dependencies, critical paths, decision logs, risk views, and executive-level narratives
Identify technical, product, organizational, and operational constraints; resolve them or drive leaders to timely decisions
Work with senior leaders, including VPs, to clarify priorities, expose trade-offs, remove blockers, and create alignment without formal authority
Create effective operating models for programs
Develop relationships across Product, Engineering, Design, Product Operations, Architecture, Data, Security, Editorial, Revenue, and partner organizations
Engage engineers and architects as a credible peer and independently investigate technical questions
Lead technical discovery and translate findings into decisions and sequencing
Frame customer, user, editorial, operational, or business problems and connect program work to value hypotheses
Partner with Product and Design on outcomes, success measures, scope boundaries, and paths to learning or value
Translate product strategy into delivery approaches covering discovery, design, engineering, operational readiness, launch, measurement, and follow-up
Present complex situations, recommendations, and decisions to senior leaders
Build alignment across leaders, surface disagreement, and drive action across organizational boundaries
Deliver measurable program results and improve reusable decision, planning, and operating patterns
Requirements
At least 5 years of direct experience leading complex technical programs, with demonstrated principal- or senior-level scope in a matrixed organization
A strong software-engineering foundation or equivalent hands-on technical background, including the ability to complete a practical coding assessment
Ability to understand architecture and implementation details, ask precise technical questions, and convert technical realities into an effective program strategy
Strong product judgment, including problem framing, customer or user thinking, prioritization, metrics, experimentation, and trade-off analysis
Record of driving cross-functional outcomes across Product, Engineering, Design, and Operations from ambiguity through launch and adoption
Experience influencing Directors, VPs, and other senior leaders through clear reasoning, evidence, strong recommendations, and persistent follow-through
Exceptional independence, ownership, context switching, and organizational awareness
Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive updates, decision documents, program narratives, and direct facilitation of difficult conversations
Practical approach to process: rigorous where risk and complexity demand it, lightweight where speed and learning matter more
Preferred: previous experience as a software engineer, engineering lead, architect, technical product manager, or similarly technical role
Preferred: experience with large-scale consumer digital products, media or publishing systems, subscriptions, advertising, data platforms, AI-enabled products, or platform modernization
Preferred: experience leading programs requiring changes to technology and team planning, decision-making, or operations
Preferred: experience across multiple time zones, business units, vendors, or shared-platform organizations
Preferred: comfort using modern development, analytics, planning, and collaboration tools
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