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At The Washington Post, you’ll help reinvent news. Our work is driven by a deep investigative spirit and enhanced by innovation to bring audiences closer to the stories that matter most.\nAbout Our Team\nThe Washington Post is powered by the passion and talent of our people. It takes all of us to reinvent news. Beyond our award-winning News and Opinions teams, we work across many departments, including Brand & Events, Communications, Customer Care, Engineering & Product, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Marketing & Advertising, Print Operations, and Sales.\nWhy This Role Matters\nWhy This Role Matters\nServes as the operational leader responsible for transforming partnership strategies and commercial agreements into scalable, repeatable, and successful business implementations.\n\nEnables The Washington Post's growth by establishing the operating models, governance, and implementation discipline required to launch and sustain strategic platform partnerships, AI licensing initiatives, subscriptions, content distribution agreements, and emerging business opportunities.\n\nBridges commercial strategy, technical implementation, and operational execution by aligning cross-functional teams around shared priorities, clear accountability, and successful delivery.\n\nCreates scalable partnership operations that improve speed to market, reduce execution risk, and support sustainable revenue growth across the Partnerships portfolio.\n\nAdvances The Washington Post's transformation by designing operational capabilities that enable new partnership models in an evolving media, technology, and AI landscape.\n\nWhat Motivates You\nYou are energized by turning complex business opportunities into structured operational plans that drive measurable results.\n\nYou enjoy solving ambiguous operational and technical challenges by bringing clarity, organization, and execution discipline to cross-functional initiatives.\n\nYou thrive at the intersection of business strategy, technology, and operations, helping diverse teams move together toward common objectives.\n\nYou are motivated by building scalable systems, governance models, and repeatable processes that improve organizational effectiveness.\n\nYou enjoy collaborating with technical and business leaders to translate commercial objectives into practical implementation plans.\n\nYou are excited by emerging technologies, evolving media business models, and the opportunity to help shape how partnerships create long-term value for The Washington Post.\n\nYou take pride in continuously improving how work gets done and removing barriers that prevent successful execution.\n\nHow You'll Support the Mission\nLead operational planning for strategic partnership launches by establishing implementation roadmaps, governance structures, milestones, dependencies, and accountability frameworks that enable successful execution across the partnership portfolio.\n\nTranslate commercial partnership objectives into scalable operational and technical implementation plans that align business goals with execution requirements and accelerate time to market.\n\nDrive cross-functional implementation efforts across Product, Engineering, Legal, Finance, Marketing, Audience, Data & Analytics, Advertising Operations, and other business teams to deliver successful partner launches and operational readiness.\n\nLead technical discovery activities that identify integration requirements, content delivery workflows, data dependencies, platform access needs, operational constraints, and implementation risks, ensuring informed planning and successful delivery.\n\nEvaluate operational and technical approaches for new partnership opportunities-including AI licensing, content distribution, subscriptions, podcasting, video, and emerging revenue models-to ensure solutions support long-term commercial objectives.\n\nEstablish implementation governance processes that proactively identify risks, manage dependencies, coordinate decision-making, and improve visibility across concurrent partnership initiatives.\n\nDesign scalable operating models, implementation playbooks, launch templates, documentation standards, and workflow processes that improve execution consistency and reduce operational complexity across future partnership launches.\n\nOptimize partnership operations by identifying process bottlenecks, ownership gaps, technical constraints, and recurring execution challenges, implementing improvements that increase organizational efficiency and delivery quality.\n\nDevelop executive-ready implementation dashboards, status reporting, and governance communications that provide leadership with timely visibility into launch progress, risks, priorities, and strategic decisions.\n\nChampion continuous operational improvement by evaluating emerging technologies, automation opportunities, and best practices that strengthen partnership implementation capabilities and support sustainable business growth.\n\nThe Skills and Experience You Bring\nBachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Operations, Engineering, Computer Science, Project Management, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.\n\n5+ years of experience in business operations, partnership operations, technical program management, implementation management, product operations, consulting, or a related strategic operations function.\n\nDemonstrated success leading complex cross-functional implementation initiatives from planning through launch while managing competing priorities, dependencies, and organizational stakeholders.\n\nStrong ability to translate commercial business objectives into operational requirements, technical implementation plans, governance models, and scalable execution frameworks.\n\nExperience working closely with Product and Engineering organizations and the ability to communicate effectively between technical and business stakeholders.\n\nDemonstrated expertise designing operational processes, governance frameworks, implementation playbooks, workflow documentation, and scalable business systems.\n\nStrong systems-thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify implementation risks, operational dependencies, and opportunities for continuous improvement.\n\nExcellent project management, stakeholder management, communication, and organizational skills with the ability to influence outcomes without direct authority.\n\nExperience supporting technical integrations, digital platforms, SaaS products, content distribution, subscriptions, advertising technology, media technology, or related digital ecosystems is preferred.\n\nExperience working with AI licensing, platform partnerships, digital publishing technologies, APIs, or emerging technology partnerships is preferred.\n\nFamiliarity with Agile methodologies and project management platforms such as Jira, Asana, Smartsheet, or similar collaboration tools is preferred.\n\nExperience creating executive presentations, implementation dashboards, governance reporting, and launch-readiness documentation is preferred.\n\nHigh degree of ownership, adaptability, sound judgment, and intellectual curiosity with the ability to thrive in a fast-moving, evolving business environment.\n\nCollaboration makes us stronger. That’s why our offices are designed with open layouts, modern technology, and easy access to transportation. With certain exceptions for newsgathering and business travel, we work on-site five days a week.\nCompensation and Benefits\nWherever you are in your life or career, The Washington Post offers comprehensive and inclusive benefits for every step of your journey:\nCompetitive medical, dental and vision coverage\n\nCompany-paid pension and 401(k) match\n\nThree weeks of vacation and up to three weeks of paid sick leave\n\nNine paid holidays and two personal days\n\n20 weeks paid parental leave for any new parent\n\nRobust mental health resources\n\nBackup care and caregiver concierge services\n\nGender affirming services\n\nPet insurance\n\nFree Post digital subscription\n\nLeadership and career development programs\n\nBenefits may vary based on the job, full-time or part-time schedule, location, and collectively bargained status.\nThe salary range for this position is:\n$91,800 - $153,000 AnnualThe actual salary within this range will depend on individual skills, experience, and qualifications as they relate to specific job requirements. This position may be eligible for a bonus or incentive program, and a member of the Talent Acquisition team will discuss bonus payment terms and conditions during the interview process.\nYour story awaits. 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