Director, Product Management - CNN AI Platforms

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.$175K — $325K *
Media
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in product management delivering innovative consumer-facing products
  • 3+ years of experience with AI/ML technologies, including large language models and recommendation systems
  • Proven ability to lead multiple product areas and teams in complex environments
  • Direct experience with AI and machine learning products, including evaluation and quality measurement
  • Exceptional communication skills for translating technical complexity into aligned narratives
  • Deep empathy for news consumers and a strong editorial sense
  • Experience in mission-driven environments (media, health, education) is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Own and refine the AI editorial product vision and roadmap
  • Define the use-case portfolio across various formats, prioritizing based on clear outcomes
  • Ensure all investments are tied to measurable business outcomes
  • Serve as the connective tissue between editorial, consumer, and platform teams for AI initiatives
  • Build strong relationships across multi-disciplinary teams without direct authority
  • Lead user-need discovery and validation to maintain newsroom trust
  • Act as a partner in leveraging AI capabilities to enhance news delivery and outcomes

Benefits

  • Access to leadership opportunities and professional growth
  • Be part of a mission-driven organization focused on making news accessible and impactful
  • Work in a collaborative environment that values influence over hierarchy
  • Engage with cutting-edge AI technologies in a prominent media setting
Full Job Description
Your New Role…    CNN is looking for a Director of Product Management, AI Platforms, to lead a team of product managers and own a portfolio of high-impact AI platform investments. You will partner closely with senior leadership, including the SVP of Product, Platforms, and serve as the product partner to editorial AI leadership, consumer AI experiences leadership, and AI enablement organizations across Warner Bros. Discovery. You willhelp todefine the vision, strategy, and operating model for AI Product platforms at CNN, ensuring teams are aligned, execution is coordinated, and delivery drives measurable business and editorial outcomes. This role requires a leader who canoperateacrosshighly complexand ambiguous environments, lead through others, and build the organizational capability to scale AI responsibly whilemaintainingCNN9s standards for accuracy, trust, and quality. The ideal candidate is fluent in AI and machine learning product, is a role model for strategic thinking and product excellence, leads through influence across teams and business units, and is passionate about building the foundations that let editorial move fast without sacrificing accuracy, provenance, or brand trust. Your Role Accountabilities... CNN AIPlatforms Product Strategy & Roadmap Ownand evolvethe AI editorial product vision and roadmap, translating editorial ambition into a sequenced, prioritized plan with clear outcomes rather than a task list Define the use-case portfolio across the format taxonomy, from simple transformations to multimodal and assembled experiences,and,anddeterminesequencing and prioritization Tie every investment to a clear business outcome, and bring rigor to the portfolio, adjusting priorities based on performance and opportunity Editorial, Consumer, and Platform Partnership Serveas the connective tissue between editorial, consumer, and platforms teams working on AI initiatives. Build strong relationships across editorial, standards, platform, and engineering, aligning partners who do not report to you Evaluation, Quality & Governance Own the governance horizontal for AI editorial product, including accuracy thresholds, disclosure, attribution, rights, provenance, andpermissioning Partner with AI enablement organizations across CNN and Warner Bros.Discoveryatlarge,toalign on shared platforms, standards, and governance Discovery & Prioritization Lead with user-need discovery and validation, earning the newsroom9s trust without disrupting live workflows Identifyandimprovethe processes that help multiple teams work better, and expand from org-wide influencetocross-org strategic leadership Act as a trusted partner in helping teamsleverageAI capabilities to move faster and deliver higher-impact, higher-trust outcomes Qualifications & Experience... 10+ years in product management with a proventrack recordofdelivering innovative consumer-facing products. 3+ years working with AI/ML technologies, including experience with large languagemodels, recommendation systems, or generative interfaces. Proven ability to lead multiple product areas and teams, delivering measurable business outcomes in complex environments Direct experience with AI and machine learning products, including LLMs, retrieval and RAG, evaluation and quality measurement, and model and platform tradeoffs, with the ability to hold a credible technical conversation with platform and ML engineers Demonstratedability to lead through influence in a highly cross-functionalenvironment. Exceptional communication skills, especially in translating technical complexityinto stakeholder-aligned narratives. Deep empathy for news consumers and a sharp editorial sense; passion for makingnewsmoreaccessible, relevant, and impactful. Experience working in a mission-driven or regulated environment (media, health,education, etc.) is a strong plus. Familiarity with editorial standards and AI governance is a plus Bachelor9s degree orcommensurateexperience How We Get Things Done… This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

About Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is an American video game publisher based in Burbank, California, and part of the newly-formed Global Streaming and Interactive Entertainment unit of Warner Bros. Discovery. WBIE was founded on January 14, 2004 under Warner Bros. and transferred to the Home Entertainment division when that company was formed in October 2005. WBIE manages the wholly owned game development studios TT Games, Rocksteady Studios, NetherRealm Studios, Monolith Productions, WB Games Boston, Avalanche Software, and WB Games Montréal, among others.
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