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CNN is hiring a Senior Technical Program Manager to lead high-impact programs that span product, technology, design, and product operations. This is a deeply technical senior individual-contributor role for someone who can move between architecture, code, product strategy, operating models, and executive decision-making without losing the thread. Lead a portfolio of high-priority, cross-organization technical programs from early problem framing through execution, launch, adoption, and measurable business or customer impact.

Build and maintain integrated plans, dependencies, critical paths, decision logs, risk views, and executive-level narratives that make the real state of the work visible. Identify the technical, product, organizational, and operational constraints that will determine success; Work with senior leaders, including VPs, to clarify priorities, expose trade-offs, remove blockers, and create durable alignment without relying on formal authority. Develop trusted relationships across Product, Engineering, Design, Product Operations, Architecture, Data, Security, Editorial, Revenue, and other partner organizations as the work requires.

Raise the quality of program leadership across the organization by modeling strong judgment, direct communication, technical curiosity, and disciplined execution. TECHNICAL LEADERSHIP EXPECTATIONS This role is not a software-engineering position, but it is intentionally more technical than a traditional program-management role. The successful candidate must be able to engage engineers and architects as a credible peer and independently investigate technical questions.

Use (ai) code when it is the fastest way to validate an assumption, automate work, inspect data, reproduce a problem, or demonstrate a solution. Understand modern software-delivery practices, including source control, pull requests, testing, CI/CD, observability, incident response, release strategies, and production operations. Evaluate system architecture, service boundaries, API contracts, event flows, data models, cloud infrastructure, security constraints, reliability concerns, and integration risks well enough to shape the program plan.

Lead technical discovery with engineers and architects, translate findings into decisions and sequencing, and recognize when a proposed plan is technically incomplete or unrealistic.



Use data and technical evidence to distinguish symptoms from root causes and to challenge estimates, assumptions, or dependencies constructively. Communicate technical choices and consequences in language that product, design, operations, and executive stakeholders can act on.

Frame the customer, user, editorial, operational, or business problem before converging on a solution; Pressure-test prioritization using customer impact, strategic fit, technical leverage, cost, risk, reversibility, and opportunity cost. Work with Product Operations to improve planning, decision-making, portfolio visibility, adoption, feedback loops, and repeatable ways of working across teams. Recognize when a program needs a product decision, a technical decision, an operating-model change, or an executive trade-off, and drive the correct conversation.

Present complex situations to senior leaders with clarity: what changed, why it matters, what choices exist, what you recommend, and what decision is needed. Stay effective under ambiguity, organizational change, incomplete information, and shifting priorities while maintaining a high bar for quality and accountability. Create an environment in which teams can raise risks, make decisions, and move quickly without losing transparency or ownership.

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. Demonstrated ability to understand architecture and implementation details, ask precise technical questions, and convert technical realities into an effective program strategy.

Solid product judgment, including problem framing, customer or user thinking, prioritization, metrics, experimentation, and trade-off analysis.

Experience influencing Directors, VPs, and other senior leaders through clear reasoning, evidence, strong recommendations, and persistent follow-through.

A practical approach to process: rigorous where risk and complexity demand it, lightweight where speed and learning matter more. Previous experience as a software engineer, engineering lead, architect, technical product manager, or similarly technical role.

Experience with large-scale consumer digital products, media or publishing systems, subscriptions, advertising, data platforms, AI-enabled products, or platform modernization.

Experience working across multiple time zones, business units, vendors,



or shared-platform organizations. Comfort using modern development, analytics, planning, and collaboration tools to investigate work directly rather than relying only on reported status. WHAT STRONG PERFORMANCE LOOKS LIKE Establish credibility with technical and product leaders and create momentum on the highest-value issues.

Run multiple high-stakes programs with reliable visibility, strong technical and product framing, timely decisions, and fewer avoidable surprises. Senior leaders should view the role as a force multiplier, not an additional reporting layer. Deliver measurable program results, improve the organization's ability to execute across boundaries, and leave behind reusable decision, planning, and operating patterns that make future work faster and clearer.

The interview process will evaluate the complete shape of the role rather than program-management mechanics alone. A practical coding assessment focused on problem solving, code comprehension, implementation quality, debugging, automation, data handling, or API/system interaction. It is not intended to be a trick-algorithm exercise, but candidates must demonstrate genuine hands-on ability.

A product-thinking component that evaluates problem framing, customer or user value, prioritization, success metrics, sequencing, trade-offs, and the ability to connect technical work to product outcomes. A technical program deep dive covering architecture, dependencies, delivery strategy, risk, decision-making, and how the candidate personally changed the outcome.

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Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.

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