Director, Software Engineering

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CNN is the world's most essential and engaging source of video and digital news, and we're embarking on a crucial mission to invent the next generation of news and information experiences to inform, engage, and empower the world. We have a unique ability to marry content, design, product, and technology to spark connection, fulfill utility, and build community. With our consumer and facts-first strategy, we’re developing new platforms and formats that put CNN’s talent, expertise, and content programming directly in the hands of consumers.

Your New Role...

Our CNN Platforms team is looking for a Director, Software Engineering to lead several critical pillars of our CNN.com and CNN app digital experiences — Data Privacy, Site Performance & Accessibility, and Design Systems. The CNN Platforms team builds, operates, and optimizes our digital content platform to empower journalists and product teams to drive essential, sustainable, and facts-first storytelling. Our focus areas include the content management system powering our CNN editorial experiences, content distribution to internal systems and external partners, media management for assets, website and app performance, data privacy and governance, and our core CNN design system.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a technology leader who’s passionate about user-first product development and wants to make a meaningful impact at scale. You’ll play a key role in ensuring that our CNN.com and CNN app digital experiences are trustworthy, fast, inclusive, and visually consistent for millions of users around the world.

As the engineering steward of these core areas, you’ll collaborate with our product, design, program management, and legal partners to:

• Champion privacy-forward features that earn and maintain user trust

• Drive performance optimizations to keep our site and apps lightning fast

• Lead accessibility improvements so our platforms serve everyone

• Evolve our design systems to create consistent, intuitive, and beautiful user interfaces for CNN experiences and internal systems

Your Role Accountabilities...

Technical Leadership:

• Lead architecture and implementation of core tools and integrations supporting user consent flows, data privacy, performance monitoring, and design systems.

• Champion the evolution of scalable, extensible, and secure technical frameworks powering CNN’s platform experiences.

• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering leaders to embed these capabilities into rendering workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and internal observability systems.

• Engage in high-level roadmap planning, feature prioritization, and cross-functional delivery updates to ensure alignment across the CNN organization.

Team Management & Mentorship:

• Lead, mentor, and grow multiple teams of software engineers and managers, fostering a culture rooted in collaboration, innovation, and ownership.

• Champion engineering excellence through best practices, high-quality code standards, and efficient developer workflows.

• Oversee architectural design reviews and maintain active involvement in code