Digital First Media - Denver, CO
posted 23 days ago
MediaNews Group is seeking a visionary Product Manager to lead our WordPress team, focusing on content product and distribution through our cutting-edge CMS platform. This strategic role is centered on enhancing how we serve our primary customers: our network of newsrooms and their diverse audiences. As the steward of our digital publishing capabilities, you'll play a crucial role in shaping the tools and technologies that empower our newsrooms to deliver compelling content efficiently and effectively to readers across various platforms. In this role, you will spearhead the creation, presentation, and ownership of the quarterly product roadmap. You will collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders—including the team project manager, the technical director, senior staff, and other teams' product and project managers—to incorporate their input and requests, ensuring our roadmap aligns with the evolving needs of our newsrooms and their audiences. You will oversee the sprint pipeline, maintaining a deep understanding of every new Jira story or bug on the CMS Jira board; you will assign stories to the appropriate sprints or the backlog, enriching each with clear and actionable descriptions to ensure our development efforts meet the needs of our content creators and their distribution strategies. Additionally, you will actively generate Jira stories for new requests or bugs, facilitating a robust and responsive development process that keeps pace with the dynamic nature of news production and distribution. Fostering strong communication channels with editors and other stakeholders will be pivotal in bridging the gap between the technological capabilities of our CMS and the editorial ambitions of our newsrooms, ensuring that our platform supports efficient content creation, management, and distribution. You will cultivate productive relationships with key vendors to enhance our CMS's capabilities, coordinating with vendors like Osano, Pushly, and CitySpark, among others, to secure the best tools and services that support our content distribution goals. Your role will also involve leading comprehensive training sessions for new site migrations/implementations and introducing new features to various stakeholders to ensure that our newsrooms are well-equipped to use our CMS effectively, maximizing the impact of our content on our audience. Employing tools such as Aha to meticulously track the CMS team's work, you will promptly respond to Ideas portal submissions and keep our product development efforts in lockstep with our strategic objectives to better serve our newsrooms and their audiences.