About the position
TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) serves local communities across the U.S. through trustworthy journalism, engaging content, and tools that help people navigate their daily lives. Through customized marketing solutions, we help businesses grow and thrive. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches approximately 100 million people every month across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. We’re looking for a visionary and business-minded Head of Product – CTV & Streaming to lead our product strategy and execution across Connected TV platforms and streaming services. You’ll be responsible for delivering high-performance, scalable, and user-centric viewing experiences on platforms like Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Samsung Tizen, and others. You will play a pivotal role in shaping how audiences interact with our content across devices—owning everything from discovery and playback to personalization, monetization, and innovation. In this role, you are accountable for TEGNA’s CTV plus apps, FAST Channel strategy, CTV creator workflow requirements, Stream performance, CTV monetization and more.
Responsibilities
- Define and lead the CTV and streaming product roadmap aligned with company strategy, business objectives, user needs, and platform partner requirements.
- Build and manage a team focused on CTV and streaming experiences across devices.
- Collaborate with engineering, design, content, data, and monetization teams to deliver high-impact features and platform optimizations.
- Own the end-to-end experience across apps (Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Android TV, etc.), including navigation, playback, personalization, and recommendations.
- Drive innovation in streaming quality, user onboarding, cross-platform continuity, and content discoverability.
- Manage relationships with platform partners (e.g., Roku, Apple, Google) to ensure compliance, feature adoption, and optimal app performance.
- Use analytics, A/B testing, and viewer insights to continuously improve engagement, retention, and monetization.
- Lead efforts in AVOD, SVOD, or hybrid monetization models, ensuring integration with ad tech partners and subscription infrastructure.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading content, streaming, OTT, or CTV product initiatives.
- Deep understanding of video streaming technologies, encoding, CDN delivery, and player frameworks.
- Experience with CTV development platforms (e.g., Roku SDK, tvOS, Android TV) and cross-platform challenges.
- Strong analytical and prioritization skills; experience with streaming analytics tools, viewer engagement data, and monetization strategies.
- Proven leadership and team-building skills.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of employees and their families.
- Two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas.
- Access to dental and eye care coverage.
- Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance.
- Disability and life insurance.
- 401(k) program with a 100% match from the company on contributions up to the first 4% of pay.
- Nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc.
- 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
- Generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit and nine paid holidays per year.
