Jonathan Goldner

• Senior Director, Global ProductJan 2020 – Oct 2025
• Senior Director, U.S. Editorial ProductJan 2015 – Jan 2020
• Senior Director, MTV NewsJan 2012 – Dec 2014

• Owned global product strategy and delivery for a portfolio of 200+ consumer-facing websites across MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, and South Park — supporting continuous CI/CD releases with 2-week sprint cadences and multi-quarter roadmaps.
• Rebuilt credibility as an individual contributor after voluntarily transitioning from leading a team of 8–10 at MTV News into a PM role, then re-assumed people management when our VP layer was eliminated, directly managing 2–3 PMs while advocating to place direct reports with other teams when organizational fit outweighed personal span of control.
• Achieved approximately 90% reduction in sprint rollover by reinstating core Agile rituals — refinement, estimation, and backlog readiness — across multiple scrum teams.
• Led large-scale editorial catalog migrations and 1:1 redirect strategies across approximately 2–3 million URLs, preserving SEO rankings while modernizing legacy content infrastructure spanning more than a decade of archived programming.
• Drove Core Web Vitals remediation across the full 200+ property portfolio as part of a concurrent site-by-site relaunch, improving scores from Poor-to-Good across all metrics, with Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) reaching nearly zero across properties.
• Owned web tracking across 200+ properties via Adobe Launch, including subscriber funnel implementation for BET+ SVOD product. Built conditional data layer logic to distinguish new trial-eligible users from returning subscribers and trigger precise marketing pixels at each activation stage.
• Directed digital re-platforming of MTV News, increasing daily page views from ~300K to 1M immediately post-launch — a sustained 300% increase over baseline.
• Eliminated an entire manual digital production layer by migrating to WordPress-based authoring — enabling direct publishing by editorial staff, reducing time-to-market by 50%+, and improving content velocity without sacrificing quality.
• Inherited a broken GDPR program after the ViacomCBS merger and executed end-to-end privacy remediation across 200+ properties, including two CMP platform migrations (Evidon to OneTrust to Ketch), re-architecting consent from binary opt-in to category-based UX, and owning COPPA compliance for all U.S. kids-directed properties. Drove alignment across legal, engineering, and business stakeholders with zero data privacy regulatory penalties or inquiries.
• Drove audience strategy through quarterly executive business reviews, shifting focus from acquisition to consumption optimization after reaching ~1M daily users — resulting in sustained engagement growth across the portfolio.
• Guided delivery of high-profile live-streaming events and tentpole moments including VMAs, BET Hip Hop Awards, CMT Music Awards, and major artist premieres.

Director of Operations · Senior Producer · Producer · Associate Producer

A decade in digital news operations — progressing from Associate Producer to Director of Operations — built the editorial instincts and operational discipline that underpin my product career. Led day-to-day execution for high-volume news publishing, live event coverage, video workflows, and multi-platform distribution. Partnered closely with Engineering, Design, and Analytics to operationalize new tools and platform capabilities.