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Who We Are…
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From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.
We are seeking a Senior Editor, Audience Insights & Strategy, CNN to join a team focused on evolving and sharpening our digital product and centering our audience in our journalism. This person will play an essential role in advancing our audience-first approach by turning data into actionable insights, shaping our editorial and content strategies and developing workflows and products that scale the visibility, impact and accessibility of insights in the organization. This team will work in deep partnership with CNN's data and audience teams to ensure that our audience insights are robust, accurate and flow into every part of the business - from newsroom decisions to long-term product and platform strategies.
This is a role for a strategic thinker and skilled communicator who thrives at the intersection of audience-centered editorial judgment, data fluency and cross-functional collaboration.
Key responsibilities:
Analyze performance data across CNN’s digital platforms (site, app, social, video, audio) to uncover trends, insights and anomalies
Develop clear, actionable insights and prescriptive recommendations to grow CNN’s audience through editorial strategies
Present findings to internal stakeholders through written reports and visually compelling presentations
Develop scalable workflows and repeatable processes for insights generation and delivery
Pitch, assign and edit content analyses that align with CNN’s strategic priorities
Support the development of playbooks for repeatable coverage strategies
Work with newsroom staff to understand audience insights, tools and strategies
Serve as a voice of our insights in editorial conversations, advocating for user needs and behaviors
Proactively identify and support areas of opportunity for audience growth and experimentation
Measure and communicate the impact of insights-driven initiatives, editorial decisions and newsroom experiments
Collaborate with partners in audience, product, analytics and editorial to bring audience-first thinking and data-backed insights into our content, product and platform strategies
Your Qualifications & Experiences...
5-7+ years of experience in digital media, audience development, content strategy, or audience insights roles
Proven success working within complex editorial or media organizations to embed audience insights into decision-making
Ability to synthesize complex data points into clear narratives and prescriptive recommendations
Experience collaborating across editorial, product and analytics teams
Familiarity with newsroom dynamics and editorial decision-making processes
Fluency in analytics platforms (e.g., Adobe Analytics, Chartbeat, Parse.ly, Google Analytics, Looker Studio) and comfort with basic data manipulation and formulas in Excel or Google Sheets
Experience using Google Trends to understand and research audience behavior
Editorial sensibility and strategic perspective with the ability to balance brand mission and audience behavior
Strong communication and storytelling skills, with a track record of communicating strategic insights with editorial leaders
How We Get Things Done…
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Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.
In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, location, skill set, experience, and/or performance. Base pay is just one component of Warner Bros. Discovery’s total compensation package for employees. Pay Range: $91,000.00 - $169,000.00 salary per year. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards. In addition, Warner Bros. Discovery provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, an employee wellness program, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and sick time and vacation.