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Here, your voice is heard, your ideas are valued, and your unique perspective fuels our collective success. As part of our global team, you'll thrive in an environment that champions curiosity, collaboration, and innovation, all while making meaningful contributions to the brands we accelerate. \nJoin us in shaping the future of communication and building authentic connections that matter. Whether you're solving complex problems or driving bold innovations, your growth is our success, and together, we’ll create the conversations of tomorrow. \nEmpower your impact at Cision. Be seen, be understood, be you. \nAbout the role \nWe are looking for an experienced Director of Web Platform and Engineering to lead our web engineering capability, own Cision’s global web platform, and shape the next generation of our digital presence. \nYou’ll lead a blended internal and external engineering team, working closely with colleagues across Brand, Growth, Content, Product Marketing, and Technology to ensure Cision’s web estate is technically excellent, commercially effective and aligned to our wider business strategy. \nThe role has significant scope beyond the size of the immediate engineering team. You’ll provide senior technical leadership across a complex global web estate spanning multiple brands, markets and technology platforms. \nYour immediate priority will be leading the consolidation of multiple brand and regional websites into a single global platform. Beyond launch, you’ll own the platform strategy, technical roadmap, performance, resilience and continued evolution. \nThis role combines hands-on technology leadership, people development, and platform strategy, with the opportunity to build the capability needed to support a modern, high-performing global web platform. \nWhat you’lldo \nLead web engineering \nLead, develop and mentor a blended internal and external web engineering team, creating a culture of ownership, technical excellence and continuous improvement. \nSet technical direction, engineering standards and ways of working for the web engineering function. \nPlan and prioritise development capacity against business and digital priorities. \nProvide hands-on technical leadership when needed, including unblocking delivery, guiding architectural decisions and raising engineering quality. \nPartner with Brand, Design, Content, Growth, and Technology teams to create a cohesive digital experience across Cision’s web estate. \nBuild strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Growth, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Content, Design and Technology. - \nManage external development partners and specialist suppliers. \nOwn the web technology strategy \nOwn the technical strategy and roadmap for our websites and web platforms, ensuring it provides a scalable and resilient foundation for the wider digital estate. \nMaintain clear oversight of the architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility, and reliability. \nDefine scalable, secure, performant and maintainable web architectures. \nGuide technology decisions across the current estate while establishing the foundations for our future platform. \nChampion engineering standards across architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility and reliability. \nExplore AI-enabled web experiences and emerging digital capabilities in partnership with Technology and Product, shaping how the Cision platform evolves over time. \nLead a major web transformation \nProvide senior technical leadership for our global website consolidation programme, positioning it as the immediate priority within a broader, longer-term platform remit. \nTake ownership of the transition from a fragmented web estate to a modern headless WordPress architecture, targeted for go-live towards the end of 2026/early 2027 \nWork closely with Brand, Content, marketing and wider org stakeholders to ensure the new platform meets business and customer needs. \nLead technical decision-making around architecture, migration, integrations, governance and scalability. \nEnsure the new platform is built for long-term sustainability rather than simply optimised for launch. \nEstablish the engineering model and roadmap for the platform beyond the initial transformation, including performance, resilience, governance, capability-building and ongoing evolution after launch. \nConnect technology to business outcomes \nPartner with Growth, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Content and Design to turn business objectives into effective web experiences. \nDefine and monitor KPIs covering performance, conversion, SEO, reliability and user experience, in partnership with the relevant teams. \nUse data and insight to identify opportunities for improvement. \nEnsure technology investment delivers measurable value to the business. \nBalance technical debt, innovation, operational requirements and commercial priorities. \nWhat we’relooking for \nWe’re looking for a technology leader who combines strong web engineering expertise with excellent stakeholder and people leadership. \nYou’ll bring: \nSignificant experience leading web engineering, web technology or digital development functions. \nStrong track record of managing and developing engineering teams \nExperience owning complex websites or digital platforms across multiple brands, markets or technology environments. \nStrong understanding of modern web architecture, CMS platforms and headless approaches - putting the user’s needs first. \nExperience with WordPress, AEM (the platform we’re migrating from), AWS, Next.js and TypeScript is essential. \nProven experience leading major website transformation, migration, consolidation or platform programmes. \nStrong understanding of web performance, SEO, accessibility, security and reliability. \nThe ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate between technical, creative, marketing and commercial perspectives. \nStrong commercial awareness and an ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes. \nA strong track record in developing people and creating a high-performing engineering culture. \nThe judgement to know when to lead through others and when to get hands-on to unblock delivery, guide technical decisions or raise engineering quality. \nWhat makes this role different \nThis isn’t a role where you’ll simply manage a development backlog. \nYou’ll be responsible for shaping the technology strategy behind a significant global web presence, leading a specialist development team and playing a central role in one of the organisation’s most important digital transformation programmes. You’ll take ownership of a new global platform at a formative stage and help define the standards, capability, and operating model that support its long term development. \nYou’ll have the opportunity to take a complex, multi-platform web estate and help create a simpler, more scalable and future-ready platform, while ensuring our websites continue to perform as critical commercial and brand channels throughout the transformation. \nCision is the global leader in consumer and media intelligence, engagement, and communication solutions. We equip PR and corporate communications, marketing, and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today's data driven world. Our deep expertise, exclusive data partnerships, and award-winning products, including CisionOne, Brandwatch, and PR Newswire, enable over 75,000 companies and organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to see and be seen, understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most to them.\nCision is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and perform at their best. We believe diversity, equity, and inclusion is vital to driving our culture, sparking innovation and achieving long-term success. Cision is proud to have joined more than 600 companies in signing the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion™ pledge and named a “Top Diversity Employer” for 2021 by DiversityJobs.com.\nCision is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other protected statuses.\nCision is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. In keeping with our commitment, Cision will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. 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