VP, Software Development - Delivery
Core
Senior technology leader responsible for ensuring predictable, high-quality delivery across CNN's mission-critical engineering functions, balancing speed, quality, reliability, and scale in a fast-paced news environment.
Role type
VP, Engineering Delivery (Senior IC/Leadership)
Builds
CNN's global journalism platforms, systems, and on-demand experiences
Domain
Digital media, news, streaming, live content platforms
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
Leading large, complex engineering organizations, end-to-end delivery ownership, operational excellence, scaling teams in fast-paced environments, partnering with product and business stakeholders, managing geographically distributed teams, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, modern cloud-native operating models
Preferred skills
Digital media, news, or streaming industry experience, live and on-demand video workflows, large-scale technical program management
Technologies
Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, cloud-native operating models
Responsibilities
Lead engineering delivery strategy aligned with CTO priorities, own end-to-end delivery outcomes for Editorial Support, SRE, and TPM teams, ensure reliable technical support for newsroom staff, lead SRE teams for production environments and incident management, oversee TPM teams for complex product delivery, partner with QA for quality at scale, establish delivery frameworks and governance, drive operational excellence culture, collaborate with Product/Editorial/Design leaders, communicate delivery status to executives, attract and develop senior engineering leaders
Seniority
VP, hands-on leadership
