General Manager Publishing and Distribution Technology

Role overview

Technology remit

• Oversees consumer websites and mobile applications, publishing platforms including WordPress and PHP, and content APIs and distribution services.
• Scope includes digital editions, partner products, video and audio publishing and streaming, media and digital asset management, and digital rights management.
• Also covers syndication, distribution workflows, print production integration and push messaging.
• Promotes reusable capabilities and well-designed APIs for product and audience squads.

Strategy, delivery and leadership

• Sets strategy, roadmap, standards and investment priorities aligned to audience growth, customer experience, editorial ambition and commercial outcomes.
• Owns delivery, service performance, reliability, resilience and continuous improvement.
• Leads teams across technology practices, centres of excellence, vendors and cross-functional squads; coaches senior leaders and develops capability.
• Represents the value stream in governance forums, manages demand and prioritization, and coordinates squads to increase reuse.
• Manages vendors and budgets and applies responsible governance to AI use in publishing workflows.

Candidate profile

• Established digital technology leader experienced in operating at scale and running mission-critical consumer platforms.
• Combines executive presence and commercial judgment with technical depth for architecture and technology decisions.