Director of Web Platform & Engineering, Cision

Salary not provided

AWS

TypeScript

Wordpress

Next.js

Senior and Expert level

London

PR and marketing software

Be an early applicant

PR and marketing software

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsCommunicationDigital MediaSaaSData AnalysisMedia

Be an early applicant

Salary not provided

AWS

TypeScript

Wordpress

Next.js

Senior and Expert level

London

1001+ employees

B2BAnalyticsCommunicationDigital MediaSaaSData AnalysisMedia

Company mission

To use their software to provide prompt and professional resolutions that allow PR and Marketing professionals to focus on optimal communication.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

We’re looking for a technology leader who combines strong web engineering expertise with excellent stakeholder and people leadership
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 - putting the user’s needs first
Experience with WordPress, AEM (the platform we’re migrating from), 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 to unblock delivery, guide technical decisions or raise engineering quality

What the job involves

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
You’ll lead a blended internal and external engineering team, working closely with colleagues across Brand, Growth, Content, Product Marketing, and Technology to ensure Cision’s web estate is technically excellent, commercially effective and aligned to our wider business strategy
The role has significant scope beyond the size of the immediate engineering team
You’ll provide senior technical leadership across a complex global web estate spanning multiple brands, markets and technology platforms
Your immediate priority will be leading the consolidation of multiple brand and regional websites into a single global platform. Beyond launch, you’ll own the platform strategy, technical roadmap, performance, resilience and continued evolution
This role combines hands-on technology leadership, people development, and platform strategy, with the opportunity to build the capability needed to support a modern, high-performing global web platform
Lead, develop and mentor a blended internal and external web engineering team, creating a culture of ownership, technical excellence and continuous improvement
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, including unblocking delivery, guiding architectural decisions and raising engineering quality
Partner with Brand, Design, Content, Growth, and Technology teams to create a cohesive digital experience across Cision’s web estate
Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Growth, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Content, Design and Technology. –
Manage external development partners and specialist suppliers
Own the technical strategy and roadmap for our websites and web platforms, ensuring it provides a scalable and resilient foundation for the wider digital estate
Maintain clear oversight of the architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility, and reliability
Define scalable, secure, performant and maintainable web architectures
Guide technology decisions across the current estate while establishing the foundations for our future platform
Champion engineering standards across architecture, development, code quality, documentation, security, accessibility and reliability
Explore AI-enabled web experiences and emerging digital capabilities in partnership with Technology and Product, shaping how the Cision platform evolves over time
Provide senior technical leadership for our global website consolidation programme, positioning it as the immediate priority within a broader, longer-term platform remit
Take ownership of the transition from a fragmented web estate to a modern headless WordPress architecture, targeted for go-live towards the end of 2026/early 2027
Work closely with Brand, Content, marketing and wider org 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 rather than simply optimised for launch
Establish the engineering model and roadmap for the platform beyond the initial transformation, including performance, resilience, governance, capability-building and ongoing evolution after launch
Partner with Growth, Product Marketing, Field Marketing, Content and Design to turn business objectives into effective web experiences
Define and monitor KPIs covering performance, conversion, SEO, reliability and user experience, in partnership with the relevant teams
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
This isn’t a role where you’ll simply manage a development backlog
You’ll be responsible for shaping the technology strategy behind a significant global web presence, leading a specialist development team and playing a central role in one of the organisation’s most important digital transformation programmes
You’ll take ownership of a new global platform at a formative stage and help define the standards, capability, and operating model that support its long term development
You’ll have the opportunity to take a complex, multi-platform web estate and help create a simpler, more scalable and future-ready platform, while ensuring our websites continue to perform as critical commercial and brand channels throughout the transformation

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Our take

As marketing and PR continues to be digitised, software that helps streamline and make their communication more efficient is in high demand. Cision ranks amidst the top PR Software companies and boasts over 100,000 public relations and marketing professionals globally.

The company is well established as a Media and Influencer Targeting Software and has rapidly become the market leader. As influencers have become more plentiful and effective, there is a forecast growth of brand spend on influencer marketing. Tools such as Cision are therefore looking to be in higher demand.

It is a global enterprise with a vast team, making it a company able to deal with high-frequency requests. Cision is already ranked as a leader in the $3 billion communications intelligence software and services market. In January 2025, Guy Abramo took over as CEO, having previously led legacy data management company GIS.