Commercial Production Manager

The posting, as TEGNA Inc. wrote it

About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news.

We are looking for an experienced Commercial Production Manager to lead a distributed team of commercial producers and oversee the delivery of high-quality commercial video content across multiple TEGNA markets. This role will directly manage approximately 8–10 commercial producers located in different markets, providing leadership, coaching, prioritization, and operational support to ensure the team consistently delivers strong work for our clients and sales partners.

The Commercial Production Manager will be a key partner to local sales leadership and sales teams, helping create effective workflows between sales and production, balance client needs with production resources, and continuously improve how commercial creative is developed and delivered. The ideal candidate combines strong production expertise with people leadership, practical problem-solving, collaboration, and change management skills. This person should be comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment, introducing new processes and technologies, and finding pragmatic solutions that improve both quality and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership & Development: Lead, coach, and develop a distributed team of approximately 8–10 commercial producers across multiple TEGNA markets. Establish clear expectations, provide regular feedback, support professional development, and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, creativity, and high performance.
• Production Leadership: Provide oversight and direction for commercial production from concept through final delivery, ensuring work is completed efficiently, on time, within budget, and to established quality standards.
• Sales Partnership: Build strong, collaborative relationships with local sales leaders and sales teams. Serve as a trusted production partner who understands business priorities, client needs, and market realities and helps teams develop practical solutions that support revenue and client retention.
• Sales & Production Workflow: Develop, implement, and continuously improve systems and processes that create seamless collaboration between sales and production. Establish clear expectations, roles, timelines, and communication practices across teams.
• Resource & Workload Management: Manage production capacity and priorities across multiple markets, balancing workloads and deploying resources effectively to meet client and business needs.
• Change Management: Lead teams through evolving production processes, organizational changes, and new technologies and tools, including AI-enabled capabilities. Help producers and sales partners un

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TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.

• Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

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TEGNA Inc. is a proud equal opportunity employer. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, hiring and developing individuals from diverse backgrounds and experiences to add to our collaborative culture. We value and consider applications from all qualified candidates without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender, age, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, family responsibilities, disability, medical condition, enrollment in college or vocational school, political affiliation, military or veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. TEGNA will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. If you are in need of an accommodation in order to submit your application, please email askhr@tegna.com

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