Business Operations Associate - Emerging Products

Job Description

CNN is the world's most essential and engaging source of video and digital news, and we're embarking on a crucial mission to invent the next generation news and information experiences online.

The Job

CNN Emerging Products is building the trusted new digital experiences that put CNN's talent, expertise, and content programming directly in the hands of consumers. We have an ambitious product roadmap that emphasizes our unique ability to redefine the news with content, people, and technology.

The Emerging Products Business Operations team works across the organization to support effective decision-making, build our commercial capabilities, and scale operations to meet our product expansion strategy. We view the business as a complex system, and strive every day to better understand, optimize, and accelerate it. As we develop new products and business models, we are looking for a highly adaptable business generalist to help us clarify, stay focused on, and execute towards our shared objectives.

The Daily

As the Business Operations Analyst for Emerging Products, you will drive consistent, collaborative performance for our cross-functional team. You'll have opportunities to narrow your focus over time, but we value flexibility to:
• Improve visibility and alignment across our cross-functional teams by building excellent documentation, communications, and workflows
• Keep the team connected in our distributed environment, and create opportunities for us all to learn, grown, and have fun together
• Maintain our team's focus on the most important outcomes by managing our OKR process and removing obstacles as they arise
• Manage scoping, progress, and reporting for complex, highly-visible project
• Partner with functional leaders to help them scale and execute their most critical activities

The Essentials

We believe that success in BizOps can come from many different paths and flavors, but here are some things we think will help for this role:
• 2+ years experience working with digital product teams at a startup, technology company, or media company
• Positive ''get stuff done'' approach in a highly collaborative environment; you naturally build partners and lift up the teams around you
• Well organized, able to multitask, balance competing priorities, and manage complex stakeholder relationships
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with an ability to synthesize complex information into simple ''explain it like I'm 5'' updates, implications, and recommendations
• Natural problem-solver and strategic thinker; comfortable bringing structure to chaos for your own work and for others

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rnwyq1-3-15-235-196-42 in your application.