Head of Technology & Digital Product
Antenna Group · Maroúsi
Antenna Group is a leading international content, media and entertainment organization, owning and operating a diverse portfolio of global media assets across a variety of platforms: Television, Pay TV, OTT, Radio, Cinema Exhibition, Digital, Music, Publishing and Education, throughout Europe, North America and Australia. Antenna Group is currently seeking, to cover the following position:
Head of Technology & Digital Product
About the Role
The Technology & Digital Product Manager is a hands-on technical leadership role responsible for the architecture, front-end development, live platform operations, and continuous technical evolution of ANTENNA Group's digital products.
This role sits at the intersection of hands-on engineering, product delivery, and team leadership. Operating above our developing team resources, you will provide day-to-day guidance, technical direction, and code quality oversight—specifically for our in-house front-end environment—while collaborating with our backend CMS vendor and cloud platform.
You will bridge the gap between technical operations, newsroom editorial, commercial, creative, and external vendors, ensuring high-traffic live site reliability (especially during high-stakes news broadcasts and evening sports events) while delivering innovative, commercial, and user-facing digital features.
The ideal candidate is equally comfortable troubleshooting a critical platform issue, evaluating a third-party technology, designing the technical approach for a new digital feature and working with Product teams to bring a new idea into production.
Job Description
Digital Product Implementation & Development
- Work closely with the Product Manager to translate product requirements into technical specifications, implementation plans and production-ready solutions.
- Lead or coordinate the technical implementation of new digital products, features and services across ANTENNA’s digital properties.
- Support the implementation of products and features such as newsletters, registration and login systems, commenting platforms, web push notifications, personalization, recommendation engines, gamification mechanics, live scores and other interactive services.
- Design the technical approach for new features, identifying required APIs, integrations, CMS capabilities, data flows and third-party services.
- Assess whether solutions should be developed internally, implemented through existing platform capabilities or delivered through external technology providers.
- Manage technical testing, QA, deployment and post-launch monitoring of new products and features.
- Identify dependencies, technical risks and scalability requirements early in the product development process.
Technology Scouting & Product Innovation
- Continuously research emerging technologies, tools and digital product solutions relevant to media and publishing.
- Monitor international publishers and digital platforms to identify new features, technologies and implementation approaches that could be relevant to ANTENNA.
- Proactively propose technology-driven product improvements and new capabilities.
- Research and evaluate potential technology providers for services such as AI-powered audio/text-to-speech, personalization, commenting, live data, sports data, recommendation systems and audience engagement tools.
- Run technical evaluations and Proofs of Concept (PoCs) before recommending new technologies or vendors.
- Maintain awareness of developments in AI and automation that could improve editorial workflows, content distribution and user experience.
SEO, Performance & Growth Technology
- Work closely with SEO, Performance and Audience & Growth teams to ensure that technical implementation supports audience and business objectives.
- Conduct technical reviews related to site speed, Core Web Vitals, crawlability, indexation, structured data and overall technical SEO.
- Support the implementation and technical validation of analytics, attribution, consent, audience measurement and experimentation tools.
- Identify technical improvements that can increase discoverability, engagement, retention and conversion.
- Ensure new features and third-party integrations do not negatively affect site performance, SEO, privacy or user experience.
Platform & Technical Operations
- Own the availability, performance and stability of ANTENNA’s digital properties.
- Coordinate incident management, rapid resolution and post-incident analysis.
- Ensure platforms can scale effectively during major news events, live broadcasts and traffic spikes.
- Oversee technical monitoring, alerting and performance measurement across digital services.
- Coordinate deployments, platform updates and technical changes with internal and external development teams.
- Ensure appropriate disaster recovery, security and business continuity processes are in place.
Streaming & Content Delivery
- Manage and continuously improve live-streaming and video delivery operations for ANTENNA digital properties.
- Collaborate with broadcast engineering and technology teams to integrate digital and traditional broadcast workflows.
- Monitor video quality and delivery performance and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Evaluate streaming technologies, CDN solutions and video-related technology partners.
Vendor & Technology Partner Management
- Act as a key technical point of contact for technology vendors, development partners and third-party platforms.
- Translate business and product needs into clear technical requirements for external providers.
- Evaluate vendor solutions from a technical, operational, performance and integration perspective.
- Challenge vendor proposals and validate recommended architectures and implementation approaches.
- Coordinate technical onboarding and integration of new services.
- Work with Product, Procurement and Legal teams on vendor selection, contracts, SLAs and renewals.
- Monitor vendor performance and manage technical escalations when required.
Security, Compliance & Data
- Ensure digital implementations comply with GDPR and relevant data protection requirements.
- Work with relevant teams on consent management, security, access control and data governance.
- Ensure third-party integrations meet ANTENNA’s security, privacy and performance standards.
- Support vulnerability management, security patching and disaster recovery planning.
Reporting & Cost Governance
- Monitor technical KPIs, platform performance and service availability.
- Provide clear reporting on technical performance, risks, incidents and development priorities.
- Evaluate infrastructure, SaaS, API and third-party technology costs and identify opportunities for optimization.
- Support technical and commercial assessment of new technology investments.
Requirements
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in digital technology, web development, technical product management, technical operations or similar roles.
- Strong experience working with high-traffic digital products, ideally within digital media, publishing, broadcasting, OTT or another consumer-facing digital environment.
- Proven experience delivering digital products and features from requirement definition through technical implementation and launch.
- Demonstrated experience working with Product Managers, developers, UX/UI teams, SEO, analytics and business stakeholders.
- Experience evaluating and integrating third-party platforms, APIs and SaaS solutions.
- Experience managing external development teams and technology vendors.
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of modern web architectures, APIs, integrations and headless CMS environments.
- Good understanding of front-end and back-end development principles, sufficient to define technical requirements and challenge implementation decisions.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs, GraphQL and third-party service integrations.
- Experience with CMS platforms and content publishing architectures.
- Good understanding of cloud infrastructure and CDN technologies.
- Familiarity with video streaming technologies and digital media delivery.
- Understanding of technical SEO, Core Web Vitals and web performance optimization.
- Familiarity with analytics, tag management, consent management and audience measurement technologies.
- Ability to assess technical architecture, integration complexity, scalability and security implications of new products.
- Working knowledge of modern development and deployment processes, including Git, CI/CD and QA environments.
Nice to Have
- Hands-on development experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or comparable technologies.
- Experience with personalization or recommendation engines.
- Experience integrating AI-powered services and APIs.
- Experience with newsletter platforms, commenting systems, authentication/registration platforms, web push or gamification products.
- Experience with sports data feeds, live-data providers or other real-time content integrations.
- Familiarity with A/B testing and experimentation platforms.
- Experience within a newsroom or digital publishing environment.
Soft Skills
- Strong product mindset combined with technical depth.
- Ability to translate business and editorial requirements into technical solutions.
- Curiosity about emerging technologies and digital product innovation.
- Strong research and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to independently investigate solutions and recommend the most appropriate technical approach.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable communicating with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong project management and prioritization skills.
- Ability to manage multiple vendors, integrations and projects simultaneously.
- Fluency in Greek and English, both written and spoken.
- High ethical standards, fitting with the Values of Antenna Group
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package
- Health and Life Insurance Plan
- Friendly and challenging working environment
After the screening of the CVs, we will contact the candidates who meet the profile’s requirements to arrange an interview.
The selected candidates will be invited to attend an initial interview and be informed about further steps. Please note that obtaining references might be part of the selection process.
All applications are considered as strictly confidential.