[Hiring] Director of Web Platform & Engineering @Cision

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced Director of Web Platform and Engineering to lead our web engineering capability, own Cision’s global web platform, and shape the next generation of our digital presence.

• Lead a blended internal and external engineering team.
• Work closely with colleagues across Brand, Growth, Content, Product Marketing, and Technology.
• Ensure Cision’s web estate is technically excellent, commercially effective, and aligned to our wider business strategy.
• Provide senior technical leadership across a complex global web estate spanning multiple brands, markets, and technology platforms.
• Lead the consolidation of multiple brand and regional websites into a single global platform.
• Own the platform strategy, technical roadmap, performance, resilience, and continued evolution.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading web engineering, web technology, or digital development functions.
• Strong track record of managing and developing engineering teams.
• Experience owning complex websites or digital platforms across multiple brands, markets, or technology environments.
• Strong understanding of modern web architecture, CMS platforms, and headless approaches.
• Experience with WordPress, AEM, AWS, Next.js, and TypeScript is essential.
• Proven experience leading major website transformation, migration, consolidation, or platform programmes.
• Strong understanding of web performance, SEO, accessibility, security, and reliability.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate between technical, creative, marketing, and commercial perspectives.
• Strong commercial awareness and an ability to connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes.
• A strong track record in developing people and creating a high-performing engineering culture.
• The judgement to know when to lead through others and when to get hands-on.

Requirements

• Lead, develop, and mentor a blended internal and external web engineering team.
• Set technical direction, engineering standards, and ways of working for the web engineering function.
• Plan and prioritise development capacity against business and digital priorities.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership when needed.
• Partner with Brand, Design, Content, Growth, and Technology teams.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across various teams.
• Manage external development partners and specialist suppliers.
• Own the technical strategy and roadmap for our websites and web platforms.
• Maintain clear oversight of architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility, and reliability.
• Define scalable, secure, performant, and maintainable web architectures.
• Champion engineering standards across various domains.
• Explore AI-enabled web experiences and emerging digital capabilities.
• Provide senior technical leadership for our global website consolidation programme.
• Take ownership of the transition to a modern headless WordPress architecture.
• Work closely with stakeholders to ensure the new platform meets business and customer needs.
• Lead technical decision-making around architecture, migration, integrations, governance, and scalability.
• Ensure the new platform is built for long-term sustainability.
• Establish the engineering model and roadmap for the platform beyond the initial transformation.
• Partner with various teams to turn business objectives into effective web experiences.
• Define and monitor KPIs covering performance, conversion, SEO, reliability, and user experience.
• Use data and insight to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Ensure technology investment delivers measurable value to the business.
• Balance technical debt, innovation, operational requirements, and commercial priorities.

Benefits

• Opportunity to shape the technology strategy behind a significant global web presence.
• Lead a specialist development team in a major digital transformation programme.
• Ownership of a new global platform at a formative stage.
• Help define the standards, capability, and operating model for long-term development.
• Opportunity to create a simpler, more scalable, and future-ready platform.