Senior Product Manager (CMS & Content Services)

Senior Product Manager, Cms & Content Services

At Versant Media, we create world-class content distributed across our portfolio of television and streaming platforms. Here, you can be your authentic self. As a company uniquely positioned to educate, entertain, and empower through our platforms, Versant Media stands for inclusion and representation. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, coupled with our Corporate Social Responsibility work, are guided by our employees, audiences, and the communities we serve. We strive to foster a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture where everyone feels supported, embraced, and heard. Together, we'll continue to create and deliver content that reflects the ever-changing face of the world.

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 include :

• 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 / Legalevaluate 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 experiencereduce 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.

Required :

Preferred :

Why Join Us :

Help shape how Versant News Group creates, packages, and delivers content across platforms and partners. As the Product Owner for CMS & Content Services, you'll empower editors to work faster and smarterand ensure our stories travel farther with consistent quality and impact.

What We'll Offer :

At CNBC Headquarters in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, you'll have access to great perks and amenities :

Don't have a car? No problem! We offer free shuttle transportation to and from multiple locations in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Hoboken, and Jersey City.

This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, and a variety of other discounts and perks. Salary range : $160,000 - $175,000 (bonus eligible).

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with an NBCUniversal employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. NBCUniversal's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and / or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to AccessibilitySupport@nbcuni.com.

Although you'll be hired as an NBCU employee, your employment and the responsibilities associated with this job likely will transition to Versant in the future. By joining at this pivotal time, you'll be a part of this exciting company as it takes shape.