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About the Role

The E.W. Scripps Company is seeking a Product Manager to translate business needs into actionable product requirements and drive execution within a cross-functional pod. This role focuses on systems and workflows for content programming and back office operations, with an emphasis on content decisioning and workflow optimization. The back office portion requires a deep understanding of data governance and controls. This role ensures initiatives are well-defined, tracked, and delivered to support Scripps' transformation goals, acting as a liaison between business stakeholders, creative teams, data, and software engineering.

Responsibilities

Translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements.
Own the day-to-day management of the product backlog in Atlassian (Jira), including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization.
Partner with engineering to plan sprints, track delivery progress, and unblock issues.
Support tracking of milestones and impact, escalating risks or hygiene issues proactively.
Work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure solutions meet intended problems.
Identify interdependencies between initiatives and other pods' work, flagging conflicts early.
Contribute to roadmap planning and sequencing discussions, using data and user insight for prioritization.
Communicate progress and blockers clearly to the Product Lead and stakeholders.
Build low-fidelity prototypes and mockups (e.g., Figma, wireframes) to validate concepts with stakeholders.
Use prototypes to pressure-test assumptions and surface edge cases.
Identify opportunities within initiatives for AI or automation to improve speed, quality, or cost, and help scope them.
Identify systemic solutions to business problems.
Partner with the AI/architecture team to understand platform capabilities (e.g., Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio) and translate them into practical product use cases.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent work experience.
Generally, 3+ years of digital and product management experience or related field.

Skills

Product management
Software development
Data engineering
Technical project coordination
Explaining technical tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa
Basic familiarity with agile/scrum practices
Familiarity with work-management platforms like Jira
Data analysis
Interpreting performance metrics
Working across disciplines including engineering, UX, and marketing
Figma
Wireframing
Azure AI Foundry
Copilot Studio

Location

Remote

Work Type

Remote

Experience Level

3+ years

Education Level

Bachelor's degree preferred
Equivalent work experience preferred

About the Company

The E.W. Scripps Company (NASDAQ: SSP) is a diversified media company focused on creating connection.
As one of the nation’s largest local TV broadcasters, Scripps serves communities with quality, objective local journalism and operates a portfolio of more than 60 stations in 40+ markets.
Scripps reaches households across the U.S. with national news outlet Scripps News and popular entertainment brands ION, ION Plus, ION Mystery, Bounce, Grit and Laff.
Scripps is the nation’s largest holder of broadcast spectrum.
Scripps Sports serves professional and college sports leagues, conferences and teams with local market depth and national broadcast reach of up to 100% of TV households.
Founded in 1878, Scripps is the steward of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
Scripps' longtime motto is: “Give light and the people will find their own way.”

Equal Opportunity

As an equal employment opportunity employer, The E.W. Scripps Company and its affiliates do not discriminate in its employment decisions on the basis of race, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, gender, color, religion, age, genetic information, medical condition, disability, marital status, citizenship or national origin, and military membership or veteran status, or on any other basis which would be in violation of any applicable federal, state or local law.
Furthermore, the company will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship for the company.