Principal Product Manager, Creator Experience at Tegnainc

About TEGNA TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager to define and lead the long-term strategy for TEGNA’s creator experience, the central entry point where newsroom users orient their day, understand what matters now, and move seamlessly into the tools and workflows they need. The creator experience connects planning, creation, publishing, and performance across TEGNA’s creator tools ecosystem. This role owns the multi-quarter roadmap and long-term vision across web and mobile apps, ensuring it delivers clarity, focus, and momentum for diverse newsroom roles, from reporters and producers to editors and leaders. You will operate at both strategic and execution levels, shaping multi-year platform direction while guiding cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact capabilities that transform how our newsrooms work. This role extends beyond a single team. You will influence architectural decisions, investment priorities, and cross-product alignment across the Creator Tools portfolio, ensuring the ecosystem evolves as a cohesive, scalable platform rather than a collection of features. Who you are You are a strategic product leader who operates comfortably at both executive and tactical levels. You bring clarity to complex, cross-functional initiatives and align diverse stakeholders around a shared product vision. You think in systems, not features. You identify leverage points across workflows, data, and platform capabilities to unlock meaningful improvements in efficiency, engagement, and performance. You are comfortable navigating ambiguity, framing problems that lack clear answers, and making principled trade-offs grounded in user impact, business value, and technical feasibility. You are deeply user-centered but equally focused on measurable outcomes. You define success clearly, hold teams accountable to impact, and continually raise the bar for product excellence. Scope of Responsibility You will define and drive the strategic direction of the Creator Experience ecosystem while directly leading a dedicated, cross-functional scrum team responsible for delivering key capabilities within that platform. You will translate long-term vision into clear quarterly priorities, ensuring day-to-day execution aligns with multi-year platform strategy. You will own the product roadmap for your area and partner closely with Engineering and Design to deliver high-impact features and platform improvements. This includes maintaining a prioritized backlog, refining epics and user stories, and ensuring sprint work is clearly tied to defined outcomes and measurable impact. You will operate at both strategic and tactical levels. You will guide discovery efforts, shape architectural and data decisions in partnership with Engineering leadership and proactively identify cross-team dependencies and risks. At the same time, you will stay closely connected to delivery, ensuring clarity of scope, quality of execution, and timely releases. You will also contribute to portfolio-level planning across Creator Tools, helping align roadmap priorities across adjacent teams and ensuring the ecosystem evolves cohesively rather than as siloed initiatives. Top Key Activities • Backlog Ownership: Own and prioritize a clear, outcome-oriented product backlog to ensure the team always works on the most valuable features. • Requirement Gathering & Refinement: Translate business needs, customer feedback, and market trends into clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. • Sprint Planning & Delivery: Work closely with designers, engineers, and QA during sprint cycles to ensure smooth delivery, clarity of scope, and fast decision-making. • Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact between product teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of priorities, expectations, and progress. • Customer Focus: Champion the voice of the customer in all product decisions, ensuring we build intuitive and valuable experiences. • Strategy & Roadmap Definition: Contribute to product strategy and roadmapping in collaboration with Product Leadership. • Continuous Improvement: Analyze product performance, gather user feedback, and iterate on features to continuously improve user experience and business outcomes. • Communications: Leads core team and stakeholder communications. E.g., dependencies, launches, setbacks, learnings, tradeoff decisions, etc. • Team output: Leverages team velocity and capacity planning to continually improve product delivery Cross-Functional Collaboration • Work closely with Engineering, Data Science, Content Operations, Design, and Consumer Product teams • Act as the primary point of alignment between platform capabilities and consumer-facing experiences • Communicate trade-offs, dependencies, and platform constraints clearly to stakeholders Measurement & Impact • Define success metrics such as discovery efficiency, recommendation performance, content engagement, and reuse of platform services • Track metadata quality metrics (coverage, freshness, accuracy) • Use experimentation and analytics to validate platform improvements and downstream impact Key Professional Traits and Requirements • Thrives in fast-paced environments • Works collaboratively across all consumer domains, business partners • Strong communicator (written & verbal) with active listening skills • Supports and facilitates healthy team dynamics • Professional and reflects TEGNA values • Strong planning and organizational skills • Proactive • Ability to effectively negotiate • Ability to say No (when appropriate) • Ability to maintain a keen attention to detail, multitask and work well under pressure Deep knowledge and proficiency with the following tools: • Atlassian products, Jira, Jira Product Discovery, Confluence • UX/UI tools, Figma, Miro • MS 365 Suite (Teams, Excel, Word, PowerPoint) Why Join Us? • Be a key voice in shaping a product used by millions of users every day. • Work in a collaborative, user-centered, and agile environment. • Join a company that values ownership, transparency, and impact. • Competitive salary and great benefits. #LI-MS1 Pay Range $150,000—$170,000 USD Benefits: TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance. Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one. Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health. TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year. * Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union. EEO statement: TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. 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