Digital Content Manager, National News

Hearst Television is seeking an experienced digital news leader who understands how to connect national news to a local audience in a meaningful way. As Digital Content Manager, National News, you'll collaborate with our team of talented journalists to strengthen storytelling, innovate responsibly and grow our digital reach by using data to inform decision-making. This role calls for a strong leader who can motivate their team with clarity, empathy and measurable impact. You will report to the Sr Director Digital Content and Strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, coach, and empower a national digital team, fostering collaboration while stepping in hands-on to execute when needed.
• Build a strong, supportive culture grounded in optimism, empathy and accountability for excellence.
• Guide teams through industry change with confidence—building trust, maintaining momentum and driving results through transition.
• Communicate with precision and structure, ensuring clear plans, aligned priorities and effective coordination across teams.
• Use analytics and performance data to shape editorial strategy, strengthen coverage and grow audience engagement.
• Combine creative vision with execution, innovating new approaches to national storytelling and digital growth.

Requirements:

• 5 years of experience in a professional newsroom
• At least 2 years experience leading a team of journalists
• This is an in-office position located at our station in Pittsburgh, PA
• Flexibility to work different shifts (including overnights, nights and weekends), holidays on short notice to cover a 24-hour news cycle
• Related military experience will be considered
• In-person attendance is required

Diversity Statement

At Hearst Television we tell stories every day. Stories about people of all cultures, backgrounds, perspectives, and identities. That's why, behind the scenes, we believe in being an organization as diverse and varied as the audience we reach, ensuring that the content we create is more compassionate, and more representative of the communities we serve.

Benefits

Hearst's benefit programs are modern, flexible and designed to focus on you. As a Hearst employee, you and your spouse or partner or dependents would have access to the following benefits.

• Medical | Dental | Vision
• 401(k) matching
• Emotional Wellness Support
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• LGBTQ+ Health Services
• Additional benefits to meet your and your family's needs

Every career with Hearst Television is like a story. How it develops, where it takes you, the milestones you reach along the way – you’ve got a lot to look forward to as your unique career story unfolds.

Hearst Television, a subsidiary of Hearst, owns and operates local television and radio stations serving 26 media markets across 39 states reaching over 21 million U.S. television households. Through its partnership with nearly all of the major networks, Hearst Television distributes national content over nearly 70 video channels including programming from ABC, NBC, CBS, CW, MY Net, MeTV, This TV, Estrella and more.

Hearst Television is recognized as one of the industry's premier companies. It has been honored with numerous awards for distinguished journalism and industry innovation, including the Walter Cronkite Award for political journalism, the national Edward R. Murrow Award, the DuPont-Columbia Award and the George Foster Peabody Award.