Director, Homepage Programming
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Your New Role
We’re on the lookout for a Director of Digital Programming, Weekends to join our dynamic team. Reporting to the VP of Programming, you will lead the editorial team responsible for curating and optimizing the content experience across our core digital platforms—web, mobile web, and mobile apps—for a 24/7 global news organization.
This role sits at the exciting intersection of journalism, audience behavior, and product innovation. The ideal candidate will possess sharp editorial judgment, strong leadership skills, and a strategic mindset grounded in data. You will ensure our digital front doors consistently reflect the urgency, depth, and breadth of our journalism, serving the evolving needs of our audiences around the clock.
Please note: This role is based out of our London newsroom, working a 4-day, 40-hour week inclusive of Saturday and Sunday.
Your Role Accountabilities
- Lead a team of editors programming the organization’s home and front-door digital experiences (web, mobile web, and app).
- Guide programming strategy across formats—including live video, text, audio, and visuals—ensuring each is optimized.
- Exercise strong editorial judgment in real-time, especially during high-pressure breaking news situations.
- Ensure content selection aligns with core editorial values while meeting user needs (Catch me up, Take me deeper, Entertain me).
- Frame stories with clarity, accuracy, and impact, including writing or approving high-quality headlines and promotional language.
- Make sophisticated editorial decisions and seamlessly curate across live, text, visual, and video formats.
- Monitor real-time analytics to inform programming decisions and adjust content placement dynamically.
- Manage and mentor a distributed editorial team, providing direction, feedback, and growth opportunities.
Qualifications & Experience
- Extensive experience in digital journalism, audience programming, or editorial operations within a fast-paced news or media environment.
- Experience managing teams in a 24/7 publishing operation, ideally with global coordination.
- Demonstrated ability to balance real-time editorial instincts with long-term strategic thinking.
- Deep understanding of audience engagement, digital consumption behaviors, and cross-platform storytelling (text, video, audio).
- Experience working with product and design teams to enhance digital storytelling or homepage surfaces.
Working Conditions
This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, combining remote and in-office work, in line with our current company policy and to be agreed upon with your Line Manager. Please note that WBD reserves the right to adjust this working agreement as necessary for business needs.
How We Get Things Done
At WBD, our guiding principles are the core values that shape how we operate. We encourage you to explore these values and see how they resonate with you. We look forward to discussing them during your interview!
Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery is committed to building a diverse workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider qualified candidates based on merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability, or any other category protected by law.
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