Director of Product - CTV

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 visionary and business-minded Head of Product – CTV & Streaming to lead our product strategy and execution across Connected TV platforms and streaming services. You'll be responsible for delivering high-performance, scalable, and user-centric viewing experiences on platforms like Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung Tizen, and others. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how audiences interact with our content across devices—owning everything from discovery and playback to personalization, monetization, and innovation. In this role, you are accountable for TEGNA's CTV plus apps, FAST Channel strategy, CTV creator workflow requirements, Stream performance, CTV monetization and more.

Who you are

You are a product leader with deep expertise in streaming and CTV platforms, with a track record of building intuitive, responsive, and high-quality experiences across devices. You understand the technical nuances of OTT distribution and bring strong experience across both client-side and backend systems involved in delivering video content at scale. You're obsessed with viewer experience—from seamless playback and content discovery to reducing buffering and ensuring platform consistency. You know how to balance business needs (subscriptions, ads, engagement) with world-class UX, and can prioritize what moves the needle for both users and stakeholders. You lead with clarity, are collaborative by nature, and thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment. You're data-driven and comfortable diving into KPIs like engagement, churn, buffering rates, ad fill rates, MAUs, and time spent. You have passion for local news, communities, and entertainment – and are deeply motivated to serve our consumers with elegant, intuitive, and helpful tools that will drive deep habituation and engagement.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the CTV and streaming product roadmap aligned with company strategy, business objectives, user needs, and platform partner requirements.
• Build and manage a team focused on CTV and streaming experiences across devices.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, content, data, and monetization teams to deliver high-impact features and platform optimizations.
• Own the end-to-end experience across apps (Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, etc.), including navigation, playback, personalization, and recommendations.
• Drive innovation in streaming quality, user onboarding, cross-platform continuity, and content discoverability.
• Manage relationships with platform partners (e.g., Roku, Apple, Google) to ensure compliance, feature adoption, and optimal app performance.
• Use analytics, A/B testing, and viewer insights to continuously improve engagement, retention, and monetization.
• Lead efforts in AVOD, SVOD, or hybrid monetization models, ensuring integration with ad tech partners and subscription infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading content, streaming, OTT, or CTV product initiatives.
• Deep understanding of video streaming technologies, encoding, CDN delivery, and player frameworks.
• Experience with CTV development platforms (e.g., Roku SDK, tvOS, Android TV) and cross-platform challenges.
• Strong analytical and prioritization skills; experience with streaming analytics tools, viewer engagement data, and monetization strategies.
• Proven leadership and team-building skills.
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.

Why Join Us?

• Shape the future of storytelling in a mission-driven media company.
• Work with award-winning editorial and creative teams.
• Lead at scale: millions of downloads, diverse audiences, and daily impact.
• Competitive compensation and excellent benefits.
• A fast-paced culture that values innovation, ownership, and collaboration
• High-impact role with visibility and influence at the executive level. #LI-MS1

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. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]

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