JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a transformational leader to join the Product T technology Team as the Director of Engineering & Delivery. As the Director, you will lead our multi-platform digital product organization across Web, Mobile, CTV, and orchestration services. Stepping into this role you will oversee Engineering, PMO, and QA — bringing unified accountability to technical execution, delivery predictability, quality, and operational rigor.

As local news continues to progress from linear to streaming and our development practices evolve toward AI-driven workflows, this is an exciting opportunity to modernize execution, increase velocity, reduce technical debt, and build a high-performing, product-aligned engineering culture.

This role reports to the SVP of Product & Technology and partners closely with Product leadership to translate roadmap priorities into scalable, reliable, high-quality digital experiences.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Engineering Leadership Across Platforms

• Lead engineering teams across Web, Mobile, CTV, and API services.

• Ensure scalable, maintainable, performant systems that support streaming and content delivery at scale.

• Improve engineering standards, development practices, and technical discipline.

• Identify structural inefficiencies and implement improvements.

• Drive down technical debt while maintaining delivery velocity.

• Establish pragmatic architectural alignment across platforms (without creating unnecessary process overhead).

Delivery Predictability & Execution

Product owns prioritization and roadmap definition. This role owns execution quality and delivery confidence.

• Own end-to-end delivery execution for product initiatives.

• Lead PMO, project managers, and scrum masters to improve planning rigor, forecasting accuracy, and cross-team coordination.

• Implement systems and metrics that increase visibility into systems health and transparency.

• Remove bottlenecks and reduce cycle time from concept to release.

• Improve release management and dependency management across teams.

QA & Quality Engineering

• Oversee QA under a dedicated QA Lead.

• Elevate automation, regression practices, and quality gates.

• Integrate QA earlier into the development lifecycle.

• Minimize escaped defects and production issues.

• Build a culture of shared quality ownership across engineering.

AI-Driven Engineering Transformation

• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows.

• Improve developer productivity through modern tooling, automation, and process redesign.

• Reimagine SDLC practices for a faster, more adaptive product organization.

• Partner with Product and Data to enable faster experimentation cycles.

Organizational Leadership & Culture

• Lead and develop Engineering Managers, PMO leaders, and QA leadership.

• Understand our codebases intimately and contribute when needed.

• Build a culture that is product-minded, accountable, collaborative, and high-ownership.

• Collaborate effectively with centrally owned platform teams (e.g., Profile, CMS, Video Player).

• Influence shared roadmaps while aligning to local product needs.

• Navigate internal dependencies and organizational complexity to unblock execution.

• Break down traditional silos between Product and Engineering, especially during solutioning and discovery phases.

• Recruit and scale talent strategically as needed.

• Establish clear performance expectations and career paths.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 10+ years of engineering leadership experience, including multi-platform digital products. With a focus on Reactjs, React Native, Roku, Swift/Kotlin, and Go languages.

• Experience leading engineering in media, streaming, consumer tech, or high-scale digital environments.

• Proven ability to improve execution rigor and delivery predictability.

• Experience overseeing PMO or delivery organizations.

• Strong understanding of mobile, web, backend architectures, and streaming ecosystems.

• Experience navigating federated technology organizations.

• Demonstrated success driving modernization initiatives (automation, AI adoption, DevOps improvements).

• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $228,000.00-250,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.