Jobs at Nine

Develop and deploy mathematical optimization models that maximize advertising yield. The role involves building production-ready optimization solutions and APIs, preparing and validating multi-source data, evaluating model performance, and translating technical results into commercial insights for sales stakeholders. Candidates need quantitative training, commercial optimization experience or a related PhD, expertise in mathematical programming, and proficiency with Python, SQL, and commercial solvers such as Gurobi or CPLEX.

Leads feature delivery for Nine’s commercial platforms, from requirements through launch and optimisation. Manages product backlogs, facilitates Agile development, collaborates with engineering, design, QA, sales, ad operations, finance, and business development, and contributes to the Order and Traffic Management System strategy. Uses stakeholder feedback, market trends, product metrics, and data-driven analysis to define requirements, prioritise roadmaps, measure performance, and improve commercial software products.

Manages multiple media and marketing campaigns from planning through delivery, coordinating client objectives, creative, content, production, compliance, communications, and reporting. The role anticipates challenges, resolves conflicts, maintains quality and deadlines, and helps create effective brand partnerships across Nine’s television, digital, social, licensing, and live-event platforms.

Support the integration and stabilization of an acquired business into Nine’s Workday platform. Configure, test, and deploy core Workday modules; resolve complex Tier 2/3 ServiceNow tickets; maintain business processes, security groups, and condition rules; govern vendor-led system updates; manage data conversions using EIBs; and translate business requirements into technical specifications for P&C, Finance, and IT stakeholders.

Own the strategy, roadmap, requirements, and delivery of streaming content-management and workflow products for Stan and 9Now. Partner with engineering, content operations, programming, design, and product teams to optimize processes, automate workflows using AI, prioritize initiatives, conduct market analysis, run experiments, and improve consumer and internal-user experiences.

Architect, manage, and improve Nine’s Grafana-based observability platform across Kubernetes, cloud, and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include monitoring, logging, tracing, profiling, OpenTelemetry instrumentation, dashboards, alerting, incident response, infrastructure automation, security, compliance, and multi-tenant reliability. The role also mentors engineering teams and requires expertise in Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, scripting, and Grafana ecosystem technologies.

Manage end-to-end IT procurement, technology vendor renewals, contract negotiations, and vendor relationships. Administer and optimize Ironclad contract workflows, maintain accurate contract data, manage renewal pipelines, and identify cost-saving opportunities. Partner with Product, Technology, Finance, Legal, Cyber, and Data/AI teams to evaluate technology requirements, contracts, commercial models, risks, and costs.

Generates leads and ticket sales for summits, awards, and lists through proactive outreach. Converts attendees into table bookings, recruits corporate award candidates, supports sponsorship acquisition, and manages email marketing campaigns. Tracks campaign performance, provides client servicing, handles event registration, and supports team administration while balancing multiple projects and deadlines.

Build and maintain high-performance Golang backend services and APIs for a large digital media archive. Develop AWS cloud-native microservices, media-processing modules, and Kubernetes deployments for audio, video, and metadata. Collaborate in an autonomous Agile squad, contribute across the deployment lifecycle, participate in code reviews and testing, and strengthen DevOps, monitoring, and automation practices.

Trainee journalists will report breaking news, develop story ideas, and produce accurate, multi-platform journalism for The Sydney Morning Herald. Responsibilities include writing news coverage, creating video and data visuals, meeting multiple deadlines, working rotating shifts, and collaborating with editors and reporters. Trainees receive mentoring and feedback throughout the 12-month program.

Manage and optimize full-funnel digital performance campaigns across paid search, social, programmatic display, video, and audio. Drive brand, acquisition, and retention outcomes; manage budgets, forecasting, dashboards, and reporting; and provide actionable insights to Publishing stakeholders. The role requires hands-on platform expertise across Meta, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, Google Ads, and preferably SA360, DV360, Spotify, or LiSTNR, with CRM and marketing automation knowledge valued.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable digital archive infrastructure for massive multimedia datasets. Build AI-powered content enrichment and discovery products, design distributed systems and cloud integrations, mentor engineering teams, and communicate technical decisions to executives and stakeholders. The role also involves digital preservation, media asset management, DevOps, and security assessment practices.

Provides People & Culture support across the employee lifecycle, including contract documentation, Workday workflow management, employee records, industrial instrument compliance, visa processes, recruitment systems, process optimisation, and HR administration. Acts as a first point of contact for employees and leaders while delivering accurate, timely, solutions-focused service in a fast-paced environment.

Lead afternoon and evening news coverage for The Sydney Morning Herald across digital and print platforms. Responsibilities include commissioning and editing breaking stories, directing reporters, running news conferences, fact-checking, managing live updates and homepage editions, signing off on front-page content, and coordinating online and print coverage. The role requires strong editorial judgment, copy-editing, storytelling, newsroom leadership, platform literacy, organization, and audience-focused decision-making.

Oversee the curation, accuracy, quality, and timely production of The Sydney Morning Herald’s print edition. Responsibilities include assessing online stories, building newslists, selecting lead stories, writing headlines and captions, coordinating shared content with The Age, and meeting production deadlines.

Leads strategic B2B and B2C partnerships for Stan, driving subscriber acquisition, revenue growth, distribution expansion, and commercial optimization. The role owns major strategic accounts, negotiates complex multi-year deals, develops partnership models, mentors team members, coordinates cross-functional integrations, and presents performance insights to senior executives.

Leads Nine’s 9Podcasts business and Social and Off-Platform team, setting digital audio strategy and overseeing original audio, video-first, and companion content. Owns P&L performance, sponsorships, sales partnerships, monetization, platform growth, and production optimization. Builds and mentors teams, manages high-profile talent, and drives innovation across podcast, video, and social formats. Requires senior leadership experience in digital audio or media, commercial expertise, podcast production knowledge, platform and analytics proficiency, and talent management experience.

Lead the Connected TV Web streaming frontend team while contributing hands-on to high-availability applications and scalable architecture. Responsibilities include integrating AI development tools, maintaining engineering standards, driving research and technology adoption, managing and coaching engineers, mentoring technical skills, removing delivery roadblocks, and partnering with product, design, and external teams. The role also translates technical strategy into business value and requires expertise in JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, CTV platforms, REST APIs, Agile practices, and CI/CD.

Leads a backend engineering team building and operating high-concurrency distributed systems and APIs for Nine’s streaming platforms. Responsibilities include writing and reviewing Go code, designing AWS-based systems, driving CI/CD and operational excellence, mentoring and line-managing engineers, improving monitoring through AI and automation, aligning technical roadmaps with product goals, and resolving complex production incidents.

Own the product strategy and roadmap for Nine Publishing’s growth platforms across SEO, AI discovery, search, newsletters, and third-party distribution. Define requirements for agent-ready content, MCP capabilities, schemas, and RAG optimization while partnering with engineering, editorial, audience growth, and commercial teams. Establish KPIs for search visibility, LLM citations, agent-referred sessions, and MCP performance, and guide cross-functional delivery in an agile environment.