Senior Director, Newsletters

Job Description:

CNN is seeking a Senior Director of Newsletters to lead our growing and evolving portfolio of audience-first newsletter products. Reporting to the SVP of Audience, this senior leader will set the editorial vision and strategy for CNN’s newsletter portfolio and drive innovation, editorial excellence, and sustainable growth across the full suite of offerings. As CNN sharpens its newsletter strategy to deepen audience relationships, this role will be central in ensuring that newsletters reflect the journalistic ambition, voice, and values of CNN, while also aligning with business and product priorities. The Senior Director will lead and mentor a high-performing editorial team, partner with cross-functional stakeholders across news, product, growth, research, and revenue, and ensure that newsletters are delivering against key goals: habit, engagement, traffic, loyalty, and monetization. This role sits within CNN’s Digital Products & Services division and requires a sharp editorial leader with a strong product mindset, outstanding communication skills, and a deep understanding of how newsletters can deliver value to both audiences and the business. Responsibilities include setting and evolving the editorial strategy for CNN’s flagship newsletters, elevating the '5 Things' newsletter as a brand differentiator, owning the editorial roadmap for newsletters, leading and developing the editorial newsletter team, driving cross-functional collaboration, defining success metrics, greenlighting and developing new newsletter products, championing editorial integrity and user trust, and serving as a senior editorial voice within the Digital organization. Qualifications include 8–10+ years of editorial leadership experience, proven ability to lead editorial strategy for newsletters, deep understanding of digital audience behavior and newsletter analytics, success in leading cross-functional initiatives, exceptional editorial judgment and skills, experience mentoring editors and writers, strong operational skills, comfort in a fast-paced media environment, and passion for creating compelling, habit-forming products.