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About TEGNA

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) 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 a Web Team Lead to own the day-to-day execution and technical leadership of our web platform. In this role, you will lead a group of web engineers, own delivery for your pods, and ensure our web experiences are fast, reliable, accessible, and aligned with broader platform standards.

This role is hands on and technical. You will serve as the primary technical leader for multiple development pods, coordinating work, unblocking engineers, and partnering closely with product, design, backend, CMS, streaming, and QA teams.

In addition to hands-on technical leadership, this role plays a key part in driving sprint execution, enforcing release readiness, and ensuring delivery stays aligned with broader platform priorities. You will help ensure work is well planned, dependencies are understood, and teams consistently deliver high-quality, production-ready code every sprint.

This is a hybrid position based in Knoxville, TN, with regular in-person collaboration across engineering and product teams.

Responsibilities:

Execution and Delivery Leadership

• Own day-to-day execution for web development pods, ensuring work is progressing, blockers are surfaced early, and dependencies are managed
• Drive sprint planning, backlog readiness, and release planning across multiple web pods
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to align sprint goals and release timelines across pods
• Enforce sprint discipline including mid-sprint QA handoff targets, sprint lock, and Definition of Done standards
• Provide visibility into delivery risks, capacity constraints, carry trends, and execution status
• Own release execution for web deployments including rollout strategy, post-release monitoring, and issue triage

Technical Leadership

• Design, develop, and maintain modern web applications using JavaScript or TypeScript and contemporary web frameworks
• Serve as the primary technical point of contact for the web pod, coordinating implementation details and sequencing work across developers
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to web developers, supporting design decisions, code quality, and problem solving
• Lead code reviews and enforce best practices around reliability, performance, accessibility, and maintainability
• Guide the web platform's evolution toward modern, component-based architecture including the transition to Svelte
• Support and improve automated testing and CI/CD pipelines for web applications

Cross-Team Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, backend engineers, CMS teams, streaming teams, and QA to deliver cohesive end-to-end experiences
• Partner with backend teams on API design, integration patterns, and performance considerations
• Coordinate with CMS and platform services teams to ensure the web experience integrates cleanly with the broader TEGNA One ecosystem
• Act as the primary web point of contact for execution-level questions across the organization
• Communicate technical tradeoffs, timelines, and operational impact clearly to stakeholders

Quality, Performance, and Operations

• Monitor production health, Core Web Vitals, performance metrics, and error reporting, and drive timely remediation
• Identify technical debt and contribute to platform-level improvements and architectural discussions
• Participate in sprint retrospectives and cross-pod technical discussions to drive continuous improvement
• Support web-based video playback and streaming integration quality where applicable

Requirements:

• 5 plus years of professional web development experience on production, client-facing applications
• Strong experience with modern JavaScript or TypeScript frameworks such as React, Next.js, Svelte, or similar
• Experience leading technical execution for teams or pods, including sprint planning and release ownership
• Experience working with a product team to help refine, estimate, and deliver features.
• Solid understanding of web performance optimization, accessibility, SEO, and cross-browser compatibility
• Experience integrating with RESTful APIs and backend services
• Familiarity with automated testing strategies and modern web build and deployment pipelines
• Ability to balance hands-on development with technical leadership and coordination
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative, ownership-driven mindset

Bonus Points

• Experience working in media, streaming, or content-heavy platforms
• Familiarity with video playback technologies and web-based streaming integration
• Experience with Svelte or interest in guiding a platform migration toward Svelte-based architecture
• Experience with feature flags, experimentation, and analytics tooling
• Prior experience contributing to shared design systems or platform libraries
• Experience enforcing sprint discipline and delivery standards across multiple pods

Why Join Us

You will join an engineering organization that is moving toward empowered pods with clear ownership and strong technical leadership. At TEGNA, you will help shape the future of our web platform while working alongside talented engineers on products used by millions of users across a large network of local news stations.

You will have the opportunity to influence both what we build and how we build it, including guiding the platform's architectural evolution, improving delivery practices, and playing a key role in scaling our web engineering capabilities.

Benefits:

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.

Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA's 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.

Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor's appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.

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.

EEO statement:

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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