Contract

Digital Products Architect

Hearst

Hearst

5,001-10,000 employees

Global media and information services conglomerate

Compensation Overview

$78 - $91/hr

Chicago, IL, USA + 1 more

More locations: New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role requiring two days per week in office; Chicago or New York City locations.

Category
Consulting (1)
Required Skills
DevOps
Requirements
  • 10+ professional services experience in both technical and functional engagements working with business and technical teams in the digital domain
  • Excellent communication skills, detail-oriented, and with the ability to interact with different levels of end users, business leaders, and technical resources
  • Expert with digital tools and development practices, such as marketing automation, digital web property development, DevOps, and data infrastructure/modeling
  • Enterprise level technical experience, data-driven decision making, and complex system troubleshooting
  • Experience in leading cross-functional teams in a highly matrixed environment with strong sense of ownership and collaborative outcomes
  • Mastery of change management and influence mapping to support digital initiatives
  • Be the client-facing team lead that understands client goals and objectives, making recommendations when a client may not fully know what they want/need, and guiding clients to making decisions that successfully drive business outcomes that align with their goals
  • Experience with Adobe Experience Cloud products, specifically Experience Manager Sites and Experience Manager Assets
  • Accountability for what your team is delivering – taking an active role during the development phase, understanding all requirements, and knowing better than anyone else what “done” looks like
  • You will be responsible for setting priorities for what the team is working on, ensuring that tasks are explained/understood by all required parties such as Developers and QA Engineers
  • Adobe Experience Manager Business Practitioner Professional Certification
  • Experience working with other applications within the Adobe Experience Cloud suite of products such as: Real-Time CDP, Journey Optimizer, Customer Journey Analytics; Salesforce Sales Cloud; Marketo Engage; Workfront
  • You have a background in website development such as starting your career as a software engineer and progressed into a client-facing/leadership role
Responsibilities
  • C-Suite advisor for digital transformation technical enablement
  • Anticipate and plan for digital transformation technology needs and impediments by working with key stakeholders to mitigate critical path impediments
  • Design and customize digital maturity assessments and contextualize strategic roadmaps to help clients establish and achieve their digital objectives.
  • Challenge key stakeholders to enable experience capabilities – establish legitimacy as a leader in digital, integration, and data technologies to design and implement new customer experience strategies and innovative solutions.
  • Manage and prioritize voices of the customer, employee, and partner to effectively manage competing digital solutions
  • Establish technical authority and build client relationships to define and crystallize support for technology decisions, program delivery issue mitigation, and end to end digital program outcomes
  • Own the technology advisory for a client’s experience-led growth agenda – use human and market insights to enable future growth opportunities through new technical product development and usage, technically enabled processes, and technology upskilling

Hearst is a global, diversified media, information, and services group with magazines, newspapers, TV and radio stations, and business information companies. It earns revenue from advertising, subscriptions, and selling information services, delivering content across print, broadcast, and digital platforms, including Fitch Ratings for credit ratings and research. Its mix of traditional media brands with specialized data and analytics services sets it apart from firms that focus on a single area. Its goal is to be a leading worldwide provider of trusted media content and data-driven information services for individual consumers and business customers.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

1887

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • DallasNews merger expands local-news scale in the Dallas market.
  • MotorTrend strengthens Hearst Autos across enthusiast media and automotive commerce.
  • CellTrak acquisition deepens recurring healthcare software revenue beyond advertising.

What critics are saying

  • Local newspaper acquisitions expose Hearst to declining print ad and circulation revenue.
  • TV station ownership faces audience fragmentation and weaker local differentiation from software distributors.
  • Fitch Group carries reputational and regulatory risk from any high-profile ratings failure.

What makes Hearst unique

  • Family-controlled conglomerate spanning media, information, and services since 1887.
  • Owns Fitch Group, First Databank, and Hearst Health alongside legacy media assets.
  • Operates 35 TV stations and more than 360 businesses across 30 countries.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Company Match

Paid Time Off

Paid Parental Leave

Emotional Wellness Support

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

3%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

3%
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