Product Manager, Programming & Back Office, REMOTE

The E.W. Scripps Company is seeking a Product Manager who will be responsible for translating business needs into actionable product requirements and driving day-to-day execution within a cross-functional pod. This role focuses on the systems and workflows behind Scripps' content programming and back office operations, ensuring initiatives are well-defined and delivered in a way that supports Scripps' broader transformation goals.

Responsibilities:

• Help translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements
• Own the day-to-day management of your product's backlog in Atlassian (Jira), including writing user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritization
• Partner with engineering to plan sprints, track delivery progress and unblock issues as they arise
• Support tracking of milestones and impact, escalating risks or hygiene issues proactively
• Work closely with business stakeholders to gather requirements, validate assumptions and ensure what gets built actually solves the intended problem
• Help identify interdependencies between your initiatives and other pods' work, flagging conflicts early
• Contribute to roadmap planning and sequencing discussions, bringing data and user insight to prioritization conversations
• Communicate progress and blockers clearly to your Product Lead and stakeholders
• Build low-fidelity prototypes and mockups (e.g., Figma, wireframes) to validate concepts with stakeholders before committing engineering resources
• Use prototypes to pressure-test assumptions and surface edge cases
• Identify opportunities within your pod's initiatives where AI or automation could improve speed, quality or cost, and help scope them appropriately, and identify systemic solutions to the business problem
• 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:

• Generally, 3+ years digital and product management experience or related field
• Experience in product management, software development, data engineering, or technical project coordination
• The ability to explain a technical tradeoff to a non-technical stakeholder and vice versa
• Basic familiarity with agile/scrum practices and tools like Jira or similar work-management platforms
• Experience with data analysis and interpreting performance metrics
• Comfortable working across disciplines including engineering, UX, and marketing
• Bachelor's degree preferred; or equivalent work experience preferred