Platform Manager, Publishing Tools

1 week ago


Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia News Corp Australia Full time

What's the role?


Reporting to the Head of Digital Publishing Services, you will own the end-to-end delivery and operation of a variety of digital publishing tools that are used to enhance and enrich News Corp Australia's digital network that reaches over 14 million visitors across 70 digital titles.


You will be the focal point for the strategy, management and delivery of digital publishing tools & platforms across commenting, content workflows, deep editorial interactives and tools, and personalisation.

You will work closely with our editorial content producers, internal IT platform teams, delivery management, third party vendors and our digital product teams, thus ensuring that the business can evolve and enhance the platforms to support the organisation's current and future business strategies.

In conjunction with stakeholders, you will lay down strategic direction for each platform then lead a blended team of on and offshore developers and QA to deliver on your vision.


  • Inspire your team of on and off shore developers to deliver best in class digital publishing tools
  • Drive innovation by working with Product Owners to lay down strategies across both projects and BAU, and then deliver on those agreed strategies
  • Form a deep understanding of business priority and own the backlog for each platform
  • Establish a continuous cycle of platform improvements that enhance reliability and operation
  • Manage vendor relationships down to a contractual level
  • Manage platform budgets
  • Handle incident management

Skills and Experience:

  • Proven experience in a similar role
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
  • Project and change management experience in software development required
  • Demonstrated experience and/or qualifications in Agile & Scrum methodologies
  • A deep, demonstrated understanding of delivering digital solutions using Agile processes and methodologies, especially Scrum
  • Stakeholder communication & management
  • Delivery management
  • Experience building technologybased platforms

The Technology, Data & Digital (TDD) Team


This role is part of the Technology, Data & Digital (TDD) group who are at the forefront of digital delivery and technology innovation for News Corp Australia.


We're focused on creating simple and scalable technology solutions, dynamic and innovative products, and a data capability that will deliver insights to grow our business.

We are literally everywhere - both in front and behind the scenes in almost everything News Corp Australia is trying to achieve.


As a team, we're on a mission to become world-class and we're looking for exceptional people to join us on that journey.

People who are curious, resilient and flexible and not afraid to speak up to represent the diverse perspectives and backgrounds of our audiences.

The more diverse our teams, the quicker we solve problems and identify, and make the most of new opportunities.

News Benefits


News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities.

Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia.

Our benefits include:
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Exclusively ours - Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
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Health & wellbeing - Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
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Time off
  • News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
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Helping you grow
  • Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion focused education series) and recognition
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Financial wellbeing - Support on making the most of your money

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Perks & discounts:

  • Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
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Giving back
  • Make a difference to our communities.
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Inclusive workplace benefits & facilities - join an employee resource group, get access to multi-faith quiet rooms or utilise our parents rooms

  • We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their wholeselves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._


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