Technology Product Manager

Technology Product Manager at TEGNA will drive enhancements for an internal CMS/digital publishing platform and a native mobile collaboration application.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product discovery, definition, and lifecycle for the internal enterprise CMS and the mobile collaboration platform
• Collect requirements from newsrooms, business stakeholders, and technical teams and convert them into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria ready for development
• Maintain a prioritized backlog across both products
• Lead refinement sessions to ensure stories are well-defined, dependencies are identified, and engineering constraints are understood before development starts
• Partner with Editorial leadership and newsroom teams to understand current-state workflows, pain points, controls, and desired outcomes
• Observe journalists, editors, photographers, and producers in their day-to-day work to inform product decisions
• Collaborate with Engineering through sprint cycles, from refinement through delivery
• Communicate feature requirements in developer-friendly language and work pragmatically within technical constraints and dependencies
• Run agile planning and execution (including sprint execution, backlog refinement, and release planning) using Scrum and Kanban to support a predictable delivery cadence
• Apply agile principles and focus on workflow efficiency rather than rigid ceremony adherence
• Manage scope, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations, balancing internal customer value with technical debt, platform constraints, and risk
• Create traceability from customer requirements through delivery and release
• Support UAT, demos, and acceptance sign-off to validate that released 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 proven 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
• Comfort discussing technical constraints, dependencies, and design trade-offs with engineers
• Ability to write clear, testable user stories and acceptance criteria developers can execute
• Experience with Agile/Scrum delivery teams and backlog management 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 requirements, and validating solutions with customers
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences, including editorial leadership and engineers
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and decision-making skills
• Comfort making tradeoff decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments
• Data-informed decision maker with experience defining, measuring, and improving product outcomes

Technologies

• Jira, Azure DevOps
• Scrum, Kanban
• Amplitude
• Confluence, Figma, Visio/Lucid
• Microsoft Suite
• APIs
• Identity/Access management

Benefits

• Two medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas; access to 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% vested from day one for 401(k) contributions made up to the first 4% of pay
• Nine free virtual doctor appointments with a physician through Teladoc
• 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year

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 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

Location: Tysons Corner, VA (onsite)

Salary: USD 100,000 - 150,000 per yearly