What’s the role?

Lead the digital technology engine behind News Corp Australia’s next chapter

News Corp Australia reaches millions of Australians every day through some of the country’s most recognised media brands. We are looking for an exceptional technology executive to lead the platforms that bring that journalism to audiences across the web, mobile and partner ecosystem.

As General Manager, Publishing & Distribution, you will own the technology strategy, roadmap, delivery and operations for the digital publishing and distribution value stream across approximately 30 brands. This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of digital media in Australia: setting the ambition for world leading web and app experiences while ensuring the platforms behind them are resilient, secure, scalable and commercially focused.

Reporting to the Director of Digital Applications and Capabilities, you will be a senior leader in the Technology, Digital & Data leadership team and a strategic partner to editorial, consumer, product, commercial and enterprise leaders.

The role

You will lead the shared digital capabilities that allow our brands to publish once, distribute intelligently and deliver exceptional experiences across every relevant channel.

Your remit includes the strategy, engineering, delivery and operational performance of:

- Consumer facing websites and mobile applications across News Corp Australia’s portfolio
- Publishing platforms, including WordPress, PHP and associated frontend and platform capabilities
- Content APIs and shared content distribution services
- Digital editions and partner products
- Video and audio publishing and streaming capabilities




- Media and digital asset management (MAM/DAM)
- Digital rights management (DRM)
- Content delivery, syndication and distribution workflows
- Supporting capabilities such as print production integration and push messaging

You will create the conditions for these capabilities to be reused across brands and consumed by product and audience squads through well designed APIs and platforms, rather than repeatedly rebuilt.

What you will do

Set the direction

- Define and execute the Publishing & Distribution technology strategy and multi year roadmap, aligned to audience growth, customer experience, editorial ambition and commercial outcomes
- Establish the standards and investment priorities that will enable our web and app channels to lead the world
- Translate business and publisher strategy into transparent technology choices, sequencing and measurable outcomes
- Balance innovation and modernisation with the reliability, security and operational discipline required of high volume publishing platforms

Own delivery and operations

- Hold end to end accountability for delivery, service performance and continuous improvement across the value stream
- Set the right balance between run, change and transformation, protecting uptime and resilience while increasing feature velocity




- Build a culture of engineering excellence, observability, automation, security and learning from incidents
- Make informed trade offs across capacity, cost, risk, quality and time to market
- Measure success through delivered value, platform reliability, capability reuse, squad satisfaction and post go live outcomes
- Lead a high performing value stream in a matrix model, bringing together people from technology practices, centres of excellence, vendors and cross functional squads
- Create clarity across direct, embedded and dotted line relationships so teams can move quickly without losing technical coherence or accountability
- Partner with practice leaders to develop capability, career pathways, engineering standards and succession
- Coach and empower senior leaders, including the Heads of Publishing Technology and Distribution Technology
- Build autonomous, collaborative squads that are accountable for outcomes, not activity

Partner at executive level

- Act as the senior technology partner to editorial, product, audience, commercial and brand leaders
- Represent Publishing & Distribution in portfolio, governance and senior leadership forums
- Shape demand at source through a disciplined front door, clear prioritisation and transparent trade offs
- Coordinate across product and platform squads to maximise reuse and reduce duplication
- Manage strategic vendors, managed service partners and portfolio budgets, including blended internal and external delivery models
- Bring a responsible, governed approach to the use of AI across publishing, distribution and media asset workflows

Who are you?

📌 General Manager Publishing and Distribution Technology (Sydney)
🏢 News Corp Australia
📍 Sydney