Director, Product Marketing

Key Responsibilities

Product and Sales Collaboration

• Partner deeply with Product to translate CTV/streaming and Premion DSP capabilities into positioning, messaging, and sales-ready narratives
• Act as the voice of the customer in product conversations, advocating for solutions and features that deliver the most value to advertisers and agencies
• Build strong working relationships across product, sales, customer success and other key stakeholders to stay ahead of roadmap changes and market shifts

Messaging and Positioning

• Own product marketing messaging for Premion and TEGNA's broader CTV/streaming offering, ensuring consistency with TEGNA's brand pillars and current terminology
• Develop clear, differentiated positioning against competitors in the CTV/streaming ad tech space
• Translate complex product and data capabilities - outcomes-based buying, first-party data, audience targeting - into messaging that resonates with agencies and advertisers

Sales Enablement

• Design, create and oversee sales enablement assets - pitch decks, one-pagers, talking points, objection-handling guides, case studies - that equip the sales organization to grow streaming advertising revenue
• Partner with sales leadership to identify enablement gaps and prioritize asset development accordingly
• Train and support sales teams on new product launches, features, and positioning updates

Revenue Growth and Market Focus

• Support pipeline growth for streaming advertising by arming sales with the right tools at the right moments in the sales cycle
• Build messaging and enablement tailored to local and regional agency buyers, a key and growing segment for TEGNA
• Partner with Marketing Strategy and Insights on packaging, upfront kits, and go-to-market campaigns tied to CTV/streaming priorities

Team Leadership

• Manage and develop a Product Marketing Analyst, setting clear priorities, providing regular coaching, and building their capability over time
• Model strong cross-functional partnership and help the broader B2B Marketing team understand and use product positioning effectively
• Build scalable processes for asset management, messaging governance, and sales enablement delivery

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product marketing, with meaningful experience in digital content, CTV, or streaming media (ad tech, media company, or streaming platform background preferred)
• Demonstrated leadership experience - prior people management preferred, but strong mentorship and cross-functional leadership also considered
• Proven track record building messaging and positioning for advertising or media products, ideally in a DSP, ad platform, or programmatic environment
• Demonstrated success partnering cross-functionally with Product and Sales, including building sales enablement materials that directly drove revenue
• Experience working with or selling to local and regional agencies is a strong plus
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to translate technical/product complexity into clear, persuasive messaging for both internal and external audiences
• Comfortable operating in a fast-changing, ambiguous market and adapting messaging as the competitive and product landscape shifts
• Bachelor's degree required; MBA a plus but not required

Location and Reporting

• New York City or Washington, D.C. metro area preferred but not required; hybrid work model
• Reports directly to the VP of B2B and Integrated Marketing
• Manages: Product Marketing Analyst
• Some travel expected for sales meetings, agency visits, and industry events #LI-MS1

Benefits

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.