TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.
TEGNA, a leading local media company, is looking for a Product Manager to manage the reporting and insights experience within our ad tech platform. Advertisers often seek answers to key questions: Did this work? Where should the next dollar go? Who did we reach? Your goal will be to enable them to find these answers themselves.
We have first-party audience and delivery data across 64 markets, which provides insights into local performance that larger platforms cannot offer. We emphasize storytelling with data, focusing on the data points that influence advertiser decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Insight Roadmap: Define what an advertiser should be able to learn from our data, and the sequence for delivering it.
- Experience Design: Own the reporting experience end to end, including how access is scoped across internal teams, agencies, and advertisers.
- Thought Leadership: Own the standard for what counts as an insight, and defend it in roadmap debates.
Core Product Ownership
These are some of the areas that you can expect to work in, but not exclusive
- Reporting Surfaces: Own the dashboards, views, and exports advertisers and internal teams work in.
- Insight Surfaces: Ship views that state the answer a buyer came for.
- Metric Definitions: One definition per metric, applied everywhere it appears, with the authority to close disputes.
- Applied AI: Use models to summarize performance, surface anomalies, and answer questions in plain language, and the tests that confirm the output holds.
- Data Contract: Own what the reporting layer promises for freshness and accuracy, and specify what engineering has to deliver to hold it.
Tactical Execution
- Agile Delivery: Write user stories and acceptance criteria the reporting engineering team can build from.
- UI UX: Design time lands here more heavily than anywhere else in the portfolio, most of it on presenting numbers with their associated uncertainty for spending decisions.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner daily with Engineering, Client Services, Sales, Ad Operations, and Program Management.
Required Experience and Skills
Technical Expertise
- Digital advertising reporting and measurement. What advertisers and agencies need to see once a campaign runs, and what they decide with it.
- Metric definitions and semantic layers, and what breaks when one metric carries two definitions.
- How a number gets misread. Denominators, comparison sets, and uncertainty.
- CTV, streaming, and local media dynamics are a plus.
Professional Experience
- 5+ years of product management, with at least 3 on an advertising reporting or measurement product used by advertisers or agencies.
- Shipped a view that changed what a customer did and can name the decision.
- Changed a metric definition knowing it would break historical comparability, and managed what followed.
- Shipped a product surface with a model behind it, and can explain how they tested it.
Soft Skills
- Tells a story with data.
- Highly analytical. Interrogates the data before specifying the view, and holds engineering to a data quality standard.
- Cuts a view down to what a buyer will act on.
- Builds a prototype before writing a spec.
TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
* Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.
EEO statement:
TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email [email protected]
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Recruiters or Hiring Managers will never request payments, ask for financial account information or sensitive information such as social security numbers.
Skills Required
- 5+ years of product management experience
- At least 3 years working on advertising reporting or measurement products used by advertisers or agencies
- Experience with digital advertising reporting and measurement
- Experience defining metrics and semantic layers
- Understanding of denominators, comparison sets, and uncertainty in data interpretation
- Experience shipping a product view that changed customer behavior and identifying the resulting decision
- Experience changing metric definitions while managing impacts to historical comparability
- Experience shipping a product surface supported by a model and explaining how its output was tested
- Strong data storytelling and analytical skills
- Ability to prototype before writing a product specification
- Experience with CTV, streaming, and local media dynamics
TEGNA Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TEGNA and has not been reviewed or approved by TEGNA.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, and vision options are complemented by company-supported mental health care and telemedicine, with HSA-eligible plans available. Resources such as Spring Health and Teladoc extend accessible care to employees and families.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with dollar‑for‑dollar match on the first 4% and immediate vesting is offered broadly, including to part‑time and temporary staff. This structure provides straightforward access to retirement savings from day one.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave covers at least six weeks for all parents and 12 weeks at full pay for birth mothers. Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement and fertility benefits support multiple paths to family building.
TEGNA Insights
What We Do
As one of the most geographically diverse broadcasters in the U.S., TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) is an innovative media company that serves the greater good of our communities. Across platforms, TEGNA tells empowering stories, conducts impactful investigations and delivers innovative marketing solutions. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA is the largest owner of top 4 network affiliates in the top 25 markets among independent station groups, reaching approximately 39 percent of all television households nationwide. TEGNA also owns leading multicast networks True Crime Network and Quest. TEGNA Marketing Solutions (TMS) offers innovative solutions to help businesses reach consumers across television, digital and over-the-top (OTT) platforms, including Premion, TEGNA’s OTT advertising service. Across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, TEGNA's stations have over 31 million social followers. In everything we do, we are driven by our strongly held values and our stated purpose to serve the greater good of our communities. TEGNA produces trusted, impactful and innovative content across platforms. We tell stories that matter, are an advocate for those in need and help bring positive change to our communities. Our award-winning journalists have been recognized with numerous national honors including Edward R. Murrow, Alfred I. duPont, George Foster Peabody, George Polk, Walter Cronkite and Emmy awards.
