Product Owner - Mobile Apps

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) 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.

Background

We’re looking for a Product Owner to take ownership of the mobile product roadmap, ensure alignment between business goals and user needs, and work with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful, high-quality digital products. As the bridge between stakeholders and development teams, you’ll help shape product vision into actionable stories and features that deliver real value.

Who you are 

The Product Owner is the nexus of the digital organization – strategically aligning and driving teams forward to deliver value for TEGNA and for our end users. You are user-obsessed and constantly looking for ways to improve customer experience. You have a bias for action, and you’re comfortable making decisions with limited information. You’re a natural translator, skilled at turning complexity into clarity—both for users and development teams. You thrive in cross-functional teams and have the collaboration chops to bring people together and align around a shared vision. You understand agile principles and love working iteratively, using data and feedback to guide your decisions. You’re organized, pragmatic, and focused on delivering real outcomes—not just features. Moreover, you are motivated and inspired by TEGNA’s mission to connect and service local communities everywhere.

Scope of Responsibility 

Lead high functioning lean full-stack product teams (product, design, copy, engineering, QA) to deliver best in class mobile centric products. Develop and maintain a robust and transparent product backlog. Create epics and user stories that align with Product strategy and vision. Partner with Product Leadership to plan and execute roadmap goals by facilitating agile scrum ceremonies, removing obstacles and ultimately delivering quality products on time and on budget. Own and improve all processes to drive value, quality, and team velocity. Document and effectively communicate risks or impediments that hinder team progress.

Top Key Activities 

• Backlog Ownership: Own and prioritize the product backlog to ensure the team always works on the most valuable features by balancing content priorities, user experience, platform capabilities, and delivery timelines
• Requirement Gathering & Refinement: Translate business needs, customer feedback, and market trends into clear, detailed user stories and acceptance criteria. Obsession with Backlog health (actionable user stories and minimal to no carryover)
• Sprint Planning & Delivery: Work closely with designers, engineers, and QA during sprint cycles to ensure smooth delivery, clarity of scope, and fast decision-making.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact between product teams and stakeholders, ensuring clear communication of priorities, expectations, and progress.
• Customer Focus: Champion the voice of the customer in all product decisions, ensuring we build intuitive and valuable experiences. Leverage qualitative research, analytics, and engagement signals/data to inform product decisions.
• Strategy & Roadmap Definition: Contribute to product strategy and roadmapping in collaboration with Product Leadership.
• Continuous Improvement: Analyze product performance, gather user feedback, and iterate features to continuously improve user experience and business outcomes.
• Communications: Leads core team and stakeholder communications. E.g., dependencies, launches, setbacks, learnings, tradeoff decisions, etc.
• Team output: Leverages team velocity and capacity planning to continually improve product delivery.

Mobile Domain Acumen 

• Experience working alongside Ad Tech/Product teams on elegant mobile friendly ad formats and monetization tactics.
• Practical knowledge of user guides/surveys, VOC (voice of consumer), and A/B tests/experiments.
• Experience delivering iOS and/or Android applications at scale
• Familiarity with app store submission and release criteria including metadata and screenshot requirements.

Key Professional Traits and Requirements 

• Thrives in fast-paced environments
• Works collaboratively across all consumer domains, business partners
• Strong communicator (written &