Product Owner - CTV Growth and Engagement

We’re looking for a Product Owner to take ownership of the CTV/Streaming product roadmap, ensure alignment between business goals and user needs, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, high-quality digital products. As the bridge between stakeholders and development teams, you’ll help shape product vision into actionable stories and features that deliver real value.

Who you are

The Product Owner is the nexus of the digital organization – strategically aligning and driving teams forward to deliver value for TEGNA and for our end users. You are user-obsessed and constantly looking for ways to improve customer experience. You have a bias for action, and you’re comfortable making decisions with limited information. You’re a natural translator, skilled at turning complexity into clarity—both for users and development teams. You thrive in cross-functional teams and have the collaboration chops to bring people together and align around a shared vision. You understand agile principles and love working iteratively, using data and feedback to guide your decisions. You’re organized, pragmatic, and focused on delivering real outcomes—not just features. Moreover, you are motivated and inspired by TEGNA’s mission to connect and service local communities everywhere.

Scope of Responsibility

Lead high functioning lean full-stack product teams (product, design, copy, engineering, QA) to deliver best in class mobile centric products. Develop and maintain a robust and transparent product backlog.  Create epics and user stories that align with Product strategy and vision. Partner with Product Leadership to plan and execute roadmap goals by facilitating agile scrum ceremonies, removing obstacles and ultimately delivering quality products on time and on budget.  Own and improve all processes to drive value, quality, and team velocity.  Document and effectively communicate risks or impediments that hinder team progress. 

Top Key Activities

• Backlog Ownership: Own and prioritize the product backlog to ensure the team always works on the most valuable features by balancing content priorities, user experience, platform capabilities, and delivery timelines
• Requirement Gathering & Refinement: Translate business needs, customer feedback, and market trends into clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. Obsession with Backlog health (actionable user stories and minimal to no carryover)
• Sprint Planning & Delivery: Work closely with designers, engineers, and QA during sprint cycles to ensure smooth delivery, clarity of scope, and fast decision-making.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact between product teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of priorities, expectations, and progress.
• Customer Focus: Champion the voice of the customer in all product decisions, ensuring we build intuitive and valuable experiences. Leverage qualitative research, analytics, and engagement signals/data to inform product decisions.
• Strategy & Roadmap Definition: Contribute to product strategy and road mapping in collaboration with Product Leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze product performance, gather user feedback, and iterate features to continuously improve user experience and business outcomes.
• Communications: Leads core team and stakeholder communications. E.g., dependencies, launches, setbacks, learnings, tradeoff decisions, etc.
• Team output: Leverages team velocity and capacity planning to continually improve product delivery.

Domain Acumen

• Ability to drive product requirements for dynamic sponsorship formats/monetization, off-platform discove