Jobs at Nine

Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines and models, centralizes enterprise data in a warehouse, and processes hundreds of millions of daily events. Leads technical solution design, promotes coding, DevOps, metadata, and testing standards, and integrates AI tools into engineering workflows. Collaborates with Product, Cyber Security, Platform Engineering, and stakeholders to deliver data publishing solutions, resolve incidents, document systems, and shape requirements.

Produces and edits online news stories, newsletters, live blogs, and digital content assets. Responsibilities include sub-editing copy, writing headlines and story descriptions, selecting visuals, publishing through a content management system, and optimizing content for audience engagement. The role requires strong news judgment, accuracy, grammar, digital publishing expertise, and the ability to meet tight deadlines across morning, afternoon, and weekend shifts.

Supports digital ad operations by rolling out platform integrations, improving workflows, gathering stakeholder feedback, maintaining SOPs and databases, tracking projects, testing processes and AI tools, and applying automation and regulatory best 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.

Leads The Australian Financial Review’s off-platform growth strategy across audio, video, newsletters, social media, and search. Oversees producers and editorial teams, develops podcasts and video opportunities, manages newsletter quality and audience growth, and collaborates on new products and technology. The role requires senior newsroom leadership, multimedia storytelling expertise, stakeholder management, and the ability to balance editorial integrity with commercial objectives.

Lead software architecture and integration design for systems supporting sales, traffic, finance, presentation, broadcast scheduling, and revenue operations. Mentor engineers in cloud development, conduct code reviews, optimize database operations, promote security-first practices, facilitate Agile ceremonies, and drive DevOps improvements. The role requires advanced .NET, AWS, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, event-driven architecture, and WCF experience.

Leads subscription pricing strategy, entitlement design, profitability analysis, and commercial pricing analytics for Nine’s publishing subscriptions. Builds pricing models, evaluates experiments, monitors market and competitor activity, and translates complex financial data into recommendations for executives. Supports business cases, investment decisions, and commercial proposals while partnering with cross-functional stakeholders.

Create, publish, and optimize entertainment-focused social media content for Stan and Nine across multiple platforms. Support title launches, influencer and talent campaigns, events, and real-time audience engagement. Develop platform-specific content using Adobe tools, Canva, CapCut, and native applications while monitoring trends, conversations, audience performance, and competitor activity. Collaborate with internal teams, creators, partners, and stakeholders to grow engagement, subscriber acquisition, retention, and brand affinity.

Leads the technical architecture and hands-on full-stack engineering for Nine’s AI-powered digital archive products. Designs scalable cloud-native applications, data pipelines, integrations, and secure high-availability systems. Establishes CI/CD and infrastructure standards, mentors engineers, manages technical roadmaps, coordinates reliability and on-call practices, and serves as the escalation point for complex technical issues and stakeholder collaboration.

Leads the national business desk for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, setting editorial strategy and overseeing corporate, economic, market, personal finance, technology, and workplace coverage. Manages and mentors reporters and producers across Sydney and Melbourne, directs breaking news, editing, digital packaging, audience optimization, and multimedia storytelling, while managing newsroom operations, rosters, performance, and team culture.

Supports and improves integrations between Workday, Chris21, and third-party platforms. Responsibilities include triaging integration errors, analyzing logs and EIBs, resolving Tier 2 and Tier 3 ServiceNow tickets, auditing master data, configuring Workday and Chris21, translating requirements into functional specifications and reports, and supporting testing, upgrades, and platform releases.

Create, produce, write, edit, and distribute multimedia news and current-affairs content across digital platforms. Develop short-, mid-, and long-form video projects, tailor assets for different audiences, apply innovative storytelling techniques, and collaborate with video and editorial teams while maintaining Nine’s editorial standards.

Create end-to-end editorial graphics, motion graphics, videos, charts, data visualisations, interactive maps, and multimedia assets for news, lifestyle, sport, and entertainment coverage. Collaborate with journalists and editors, apply brand guidelines, develop reusable templates, and optimise content for digital and social platforms. The role also requires videography skills, concise copywriting, and adherence to media ethics, copyright, brand safety, and fair-dealing standards.

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.

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.

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.

Build and maintain data models, ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and scalable data infrastructure. Implement data quality checks, monitoring, alerting, and incident resolution processes. Contribute to data platform architecture and explore AI technologies that improve engineering workflows and business insights. The role also involves workflow orchestration, task dependency management, and supporting cloud-based deployment and infrastructure automation.