Senior Product Manager (CMS & Content Services)
About The Position
The Senior Product Manager, CMS & Content Services serves as the Product Owner for newsroom publishing and content distribution across CNBC, MSNOW, and E! News. You’ll lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of tools that power editorial creation, efficient workflows, and the packaging and syndication of content to internal properties and external partners. Acting as the voice of the newsroom and distribution stakeholders, you’ll translate business priorities into a clear product plan that improves speed to publish, partner delivery quality, and overall editorial effectiveness. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Editorial, Audience/Growth, Business Development, and Legal to ensure our publishing and distribution ecosystem scales with our brands.
Requirements
- 5+ years as a Product Owner/Manager in digital publishing, media, or content operations.
- Deep understanding of newsroom workflows and the end-to-end publishing lifecycle.
- Experience prioritizing roadmaps that serve both editorial users and distribution/partner outcomes.
- Strong cross-functional communicator with a track record of aligning Editorial, Product, Design, Engineering, and Business stakeholders.
- Proven ability to deliver user-centric improvements that drive measurable efficiency, reach, or satisfaction.
- Excellent organization and prioritization skills in a fast-moving, multi-brand environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience overseeing content syndication or distribution partnerships (news, entertainment, or sports).
- Familiarity with audience growth, SEO, and content performance KPIs.
- Comfort working with SLAs, partner requirements, and basic contract terms in partnership with Business Development and Legal.
- Exposure to agile product practices and iterative releases.
- Passion for journalism, storytelling, and enabling newsroom innovation.
Responsibilities
- Own the product roadmap for CMS and content distribution/syndication, balancing immediate newsroom needs with long-term platform goals.
- Engage directly with editorial and distribution stakeholders to gather feedback, prioritize features, and ensure tools reflect real newsroom and partner use cases.
- Define packaging and governance for distribution (what we send, to whom, when, and how it’s represented), including policies for branding, attribution, embargoes, and usage guidelines.
- Manage the partner lifecycle in collaboration with BD/Legal—evaluate opportunities, set expectations, guide onboarding/offboarding, and ensure obligations are met.
- Drive change management and release readiness for publishing and distribution updates; coordinate training, comms, and smooth adoption across teams.
- Champion editorial and partner experience—reduce friction in workflows, improve reliability of outbound content, and enhance downstream findability and presentation.
- Establish and track success metrics for publishing and distribution (e.g., time-to-publish, delivery success rate, partner satisfaction, referral impact, content reach).
- Collaborate with Audience/Growth & Analytics to ensure tools support SEO, performance measurement, and insights that inform roadmap decisions.
- Maintain a clear catalog of distribution endpoints and partnerships (internal products, apps, sites; external partners), ensuring ownership and documentation are up to date.
- Foster continuous improvement via user feedback loops, best-practice playbooks, and training materials for editors and partner-facing teams.
- Contribute to the multi-brand vision for unified content management, distribution, and syndication across Versant News Group.
Benefits
- At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you’ll have access to great perks and amenities:
- Sweat it out -- Free onsite fitness center with state-of-the-art equipment, plus daily group classes
- Eat up -- Gourmet cafeteria with daily specials plus soup and salad bars
- Extras -- Dry cleaning, and sneak peeks
- Don’t have a car? No problem! We offer free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken and Jersey City .
- This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and a variety of other discounts and perks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
