Product Manager, Engagement

TEGNA Inc. is looking for a Product Manager, Engagement to own the mobile product roadmap with a focus on driving engagement while maintaining platform integrity. In this role, you will translate business goals into user-centered outcomes, lead cross-functional delivery, and use data and research to continuously improve the customer experience.

What you’ll do

• Lead high functioning lean full-stack product teams across product, design, copy, engineering, and QA to deliver best-in-class, mobile-centric experiences.
• Develop and maintain a robust, transparent product backlog.
• Create epics and user stories aligned to Product strategy and vision.
• Partner with Product Leadership to plan and execute roadmap goals by facilitating agile scrum ceremonies, removing obstacles, and delivering quality products on time and on budget.
• Own and improve product processes that drive value, quality, and team velocity.
• Document and communicate risks or impediments that hinder team progress.
• Prioritize the product backlog by balancing content priorities, user experience, platform capabilities, and delivery timelines, keeping work focused on the most valuable features.
• Build rapid prototypes and interactive mockups to validate product concepts before full development.
• Use AI coding assistants (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate development and explore design alternatives.
• Translate design concepts into working prototypes using low-code/no-code tools or AI-powered code generation.
• Review and iterate on AI-generated code with engineering teams to support quality, maintainability, and alignment to the product vision.
• Translate business needs, customer feedback, and market trends into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain strong backlog health, emphasizing actionable user stories and minimal to no carryover.
• Collaborate with designers, engineers, and QA during sprint cycles to ensure smooth delivery, scope clarity, and fast decision-making.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between product teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of priorities, expectations, and progress.
• Champion the voice of the customer across product decisions.
• Leverage qualitative research, analytics, and engagement signals/data to inform product decisions.
• Contribute to product strategy and roadmapping with Product Leadership.
• Analyze product performance, incorporate user feedback, and iterate features to improve user experience and business outcomes.
• Lead core team and stakeholder communications, including dependencies, launches, setbacks, learnings, and tradeoff decisions.
• Use team velocity and capacity planning to improve product delivery over time.

What you’ll need

• Practical knowledge of user guides/surveys, VOC (voice of consumer), and A/B tests/experiments.
• Experience delivering iOS and/or Android applications at scale.
• Familiarity with app store submission and release criteria, including metadata and screenshot requirements.
• Comfort working in fast-paced environments and collaborating across consumer domains and business partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication with active listening skills.
• Experience supporting and facilitating healthy team dynamics.
• Professional approach that reflects TEGNA values.
• Strong planning and organizational skills, with a proactive mindset.
• Ability to negotiate and ability to say “No” when appropriate.
• Attention to detail, ability to multitask, and ability to work under pressure.
• Organized, pragmatic, and focused on delivering real outcomes, not just features.
• Bias for action and comfort making decisions with limited information.
• Ability to turn complexity into clarity for users and development teams.
• Understanding of agile principles and preference for iterative work guided by data and feedback.
• User-obsessed approach to continuously improving customer experience.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to align teams around a shared vision.

Tools and technologies

• Claude, GitHub Copilot
• Atlassian products, Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence
• Figma, Miro, MS 365 Suite (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Amplitude, Launch Darkly, New Relic

Location and compensation

• Location: New York, NY (onsite)
• Compensation: USD 130,000 - 150,000 per year

Benefits

• Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, plus dental and eye care coverage
• Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) program with company match up to the first 4% of pay (100% match from the company) and 100% vested from day one
• Nine free virtual doctor appointments with Teladoc (regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans)
• 12 free annual therapy sessions with Spring Health (regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans)
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year