Senior Product Manager (CMS & Content Services)

The Senior Product Manager, CMS & Content Services serves as the Product Owner for newsroom publishing and content distribution across CNBC, MSNBC, and E! News. You’ll lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of tools that power editorial creation, efficient workflows, and the packaging and syndication of content to internal properties and external partners.Acting as the voice of the newsroom and distribution stakeholders, you’ll translate business priorities into a clear product plan that improves speed to publish, partner delivery quality, and overall editorial effectiveness. You’ll collaborate closely with Product, Design, Engineering, Editorial, Audience/Growth, Business Development, and Legal to ensure our publishing and distribution ecosystem scales with our brands.Key Responsibilities· Own the product roadmap for CMS and content distribution/syndication, balancing immediate newsroom needs with long-term platform goals.· Engage directly with editorial and distribution stakeholders to gather feedback, prioritize features, and ensure tools reflect real newsroom and partner use cases.· Define packaging and governance for distribution (what we send, to whom, when, and how it’s represented), including policies for branding, attribution, embargoes, and usage guidelines.· Manage the partner lifecycle in collaboration with BD/Legal—evaluate opportunities, set expectations, guide onboarding/offboarding, and ensure obligations are met.· Drive change management and release readiness for publishing and distribution updates; coordinate training, comms, and smooth adoption across teams.· Champion editorial and partner experience—reduce friction in workflows, improve reliability of outbound content, and enhance downstream findability and presentation.· Establish and track success metrics for publishing and distribution (e.g., time-to-publish, delivery success rate, partner satisfaction, referral impact, content reach).· Collaborate with Audience/Growth & Analytics to ensure tools support SEO, performance measurement, and insights that inform roadmap decisions.· Maintain a clear catalog of distribution endpoints and partnerships (internal products, apps, sites; external partners), ensuring ownership and documentation are up to date.· Foster continuous improvement via user feedback loops, best-practice playbooks, and training materials for editors and partner-facing teams.· Contribute to the multi-brand vision for unified content management, distribution, and syndication across Versant News Group.