About the job

Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.

Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.

If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

We are the now and the next. The power behind the people building the future. We are born from the spirit of innovation. We are created from the idea that people around the world want more, need more, deserve more. We are the home of the global digital revolution. We are CNN.ㅤ

Your New Role…

We are CNN. THE WORLD'S MOST ESSENTIAL AND ENGAGING SOURCE OF DIGITAL NEWS. We are in the midst of rapid transformation and need our next generation of innovators, makers, and dreamers who will lead and drive our growth. We aim to make the world a better, more connected place.

The Staff Product Manager, Developer Experience, is responsible for the end-to-end experience of CNN's engineers, accelerating and amplifying their capability to deliver end user value, starting with their onboarding to when their code reaches production and over 100 million end users. Operating within the Digital Platform Group, this role partners across engineering and platform teams to improve the full developer lifecycle, from how engineers learn CNN's platform, workflows, tooling, and infrastructure, to how quickly and safely they can go from code commit to production deploy. This role is accountable for measurable improvements in time to productivity for new engineers, engineering velocity, and release safety across CNN's digital platform.

Your Role Accountabilities…

• Own Developer Experience and Operations, a strategic priority product area with high complexity, defining the product vision, strategy, goals, metrics, and roadmap in close partnership with engineering leads who bring the technical depth
• Collaborate with engineering leads to design and improve the end-to-end developer onboarding journey, ensuring engineers can learn CNN's platform, workflows, tooling, and infrastructure quickly and begin delivering value to end users as fast as possible
• Identify and reduce bottlenecks in CNN's build, test, and deployment pipeline, improving code commit to production cycle time while increasing release volume and deployment safety
• Drive adoption of developer platform tooling, deployment workflows, and engineering operations processes, measuring usage to validate impact and inform iteration
• Partner with engineering teams and data to develop insights that drive decisions, actively identifying and closing gaps in understanding of the developer experience
• Continuously monitor the developer experience landscape, developing data insights that inform strategy and influence decisions across engineering and product teams
• Lead through influence and cross-team collaboration to drive best practice adoption, increase organizational effectiveness, and continuously raise the bar for how CNN's engineers onboard, build, test, and deploy

Qualifications & Experience…

Required

• 8+ years of product management experience, owning a strategic priority product area with high complexity and ambiguity
• Demonstrated experience owning internal developer tools, developer platforms, or infrastructure related products, with engineers as the primary stakeholder
• Technical fluency in CI/CD, build systems, deployment pipelines, and developer tooling
• Familiarity with DORA metrics and demonstrated experience using engineering data to diagnose bottlenecks and drive product decisions
• Strong track record of driving adoption of platform tooling and engineering best practices across a large organization
• Proven ability to lead through influence and cross-functional collaboration, delivering measurable outcomes without direct authority
• Demonstrated ability to develop data insights that inform strategy and influence decisions across engineering and product teams
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, accessible language that resonates with product and business leaderships
• Excellent written and oral communication, producing clear product artifacts that are used as examples of quality work by the broader team

Preferred

• Experience at a media company, publisher, or complex multi-platform digital organization
• Background in engineering operations, incident management, or deployment governance
• Proven track record of driving organizational behavior change in engineering organizations
• Familiarity with AI-assisted developer tooling and a clear point of view on where it does and does not meaningfully accelerate engineering velocity

About Skydance

Skydance is a next-generation global media and entertainment company, comprised of three business segments: Studios, Direct-to-Consumer, and TV Media. Skydance's portfolio unites legendary brands, including Paramount, Warner Bros., HBO and HBO Max, Paramount+, Pluto TV, CBS, CNN, CBS Sports, TNT Sports, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV, Food Network, BET, HGTV, and Comedy Central.

Some Important Details

We embrace the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit. In line with the laws of the country or region in which the role is based, this includes consideration without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, citizenship status, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or protected veteran status, union status or any other category protected by applicable law.

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Hiring Salary Range: $133,000.00 - $247,000.00 per year

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing compensation, or a range thereof, for roles where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, external market data, internal equity, skill set, experience, training, education, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of our total compensation package. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. 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.