Antenna Group is a leading international content, media and entertainment organization, owning and operating a diverse portfolio of global media assets across a variety of platforms: Television, Pay TV, OTT, Radio, Cinema Exhibition, Digital, Music, Publishing and Education, throughout Europe, North America and Australia. Antenna Group is currently seeking, to cover the following position:
Head of Technology & Digital Product
About the Role
The Technology & Digital Product Manager is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for the architecture, front-end development, live platform operations, and continuous technical evolution of ANTENNA Group's digital products.
This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering, product delivery, and team leadership. Operating above our developing team resources, you will provide day-to-day guidance, technical direction, and code quality oversight—specifically for our in-house front-end environment—while collaborating with our backend CMS vendor and cloud platform.
You will bridge the gap between technical operations, newsroom editorial, commercial, creative, and external vendors, ensuring high-traffic live site reliability (especially during high-stakes news broadcasts and evening sports events) while delivering innovative, commercial, and user-facing digital features.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable troubleshooting a critical platform issue, evaluating a third-party technology, designing the technical approach for a new digital feature and working with Product teams to bring a new idea into production.
Job Description
Digital Product Implementation & Development
Work closely with the Product Manager to translate product requirements into technical specifications, implementation plans and production-ready solutions.
Lead or coordinate the technical implementation of new digital products, features and services across ANTENNA’s digital properties.
Support the implementation of products and features such as newsletters, registration and login systems, commenting platforms, web push notifications, personalization, recommendation engines, gamification mechanics, live scores and other interactive services.
Design the technical approach for new features, identifying required APIs, integrations, CMS capabilities, data flows and third-party services.
Assess whether solutions should be developed internally, implemented through existing platform capabilities or delivered through external technology providers.
Manage technical testing, QA, deployment and post-launch monitoring of new products and features.
Identify dependencies, technical risks and scalability requirements early in the product development process.
Technology Scouting & Product Innovation
Continuously research emerging technologies, tools and digital product solutions relevant to media and publishing.
Monitor international publishers and digital platforms to identify new features, technologies and implementation approaches that could be relevant to ANTENNA.
Proactively propose technology-driven product improvements and new capabilities.
Research and evaluate potential technology providers for services such as AI-powered audio/text-to-speech, personalization, commenting, live data, sports data, recommendation systems and audience engagement tools.
Run technical evaluations and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) before recommending new technologies or vendors.
Maintain awareness of developments in AI and automation that could improve editorial workflows, content distribution and user experience.
SEO, Performance & Growth Technology
Work closely with SEO, Performance and Audience & Growth teams to ensure that technical implementation supports audience and business objectives.
Conduct technical reviews related to site speed, Core Web Vitals, crawlability, indexation, structured data and overall technical SEO.
Support the implementation and technical validation of analytics, attribution, consent, audience measurement and…