Broadcast & Media Technology Project Manager

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OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY Fox News Media

FOX News Media operates the FOX News Channel (FNC), FOX Business Network (FBN), FOX News Digital, FOX News Audio, FOX News Books, the direct-to-consumer digital streaming services FOX Nation and FOX News International and the newly announced platform FOX Weather. Currently the number one network in all of cable, FNC has also been the most watched television news channel for 20 consecutive years, while FBN currently ranks among the top business channels on cable. Owned by FOX Corporation, FOX News Media reaches 200 million people each month.

JOB DESCRIPTION FOX News Media is seeking an experienced Broadcast & Media Technology Project Manager to lead complex technology initiatives across studio operations, live broadcast production, contribution/transmission networks, Media Asset Management (MAM) pipelines, and fast-turnaround content creation/editing environments.

This role will manage projects from initial discovery and technical requirements gathering through solution delivery, systems integration, testing, commissioning, and transition to 24/7 broadcast operations. The successful candidate will collaborate closely across broadcast engineering, studio operations, control rooms, post-production, editorial, transmission, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and external systems integrators/vendors.

The ideal candidate combines disciplined project management practices with a strong technical understanding of how broadcast content moves from field capture/ingest through studio control rooms, non-linear editing (NLE) suites, central MAM repositories, master control/playout, and multi-path transmission.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITES Project Delivery and Governance • Lead the full project lifecycle, including discovery, scoping, technical design coordination, procurement, installation, integration, testing, commissioning, cutover, hypercare, and operational handover.

• Develop and maintain integrated project plans covering work breakdown structures, milestones, critical paths, dependencies, hardware/software lead times, risks, issues, and capital/operating budgets.

• Establish governance routines, engineering working sessions, steering committee reporting, and change-control decision forums.

• Coordinate workstreams across broadcast engineering, studio tech, transmission/traffic, newsroom operations, editing/post-production, IT infrastructure, and third-party vendors/systems integrators.

• Track delivery against broadcast milestones, schedule, budget, quality standards, and operational-readiness criteria.

• Maintain rigorous project documentation, including functional specs, system schematics coordination, rack elevations, acceptance test plans (ATP), cutover runbooks, and handover documentation.

Broadcast & Media Technology Delivery • Lead initiatives involving production switchers, audio consoles, studio cameras, robotics, multi-viewers, tally/intercom systems (e.g., Riedel, RTS), broadcast graphics (e.g., Vizrt), and virtual/augmented reality studio tech.

• Oversee deployments for field acquisition, bonded cellular (e.g., LiveU, Dejero), satellite/fiber contribution, IP contribution protocols (SRT, RIST, Zixi), and baseband/IP ingest pipelines.

• Manage MAM implementations, metadata schema standardization, ingest automation, nearline/deep archive tiers, LTO/cloud storage lifecycles, and media supply chain orchestration.

• Drive technical delivery for non-linear editing (NLE) platforms (Adobe Premiere, Avid Media Composer), shared production storage (SAN/NAS/Isilon/Avid NEXIS), fast-turnaround news editing, and transcode/QC workflows.

• Coordinate projects for playout automation, routing matrices (SDI and IP), primary/backup transmission paths, satellite uplink/downlink, terrestrial fiber circuits, and disaster recovery (DR) facilities.

• Facilitate technical integration between newsroom systems (e.g., iNEWS, ENPS), rundown automation, prompters, and playback servers.

• Translate operational and editorial requirements into clear engineering workstreams and technical deliverables.

• Support infrastructure modernization and technology refreshes, such as SDI-to-ST 2110 IP transitions, cloud-assisted production, and hybrid on-prem/cloud workflows.

• Coordinate technical design reviews alongside Principal Engineers, Systems Architects, and Technical Leads.

Live Operations, Commissioning & Deployment Readiness • Plan and direct factory acceptance testing (FAT), site acceptance testing (SAT), end-to-end rehearsal workflows, operational shadow periods, cutovers, and rollback strategies.

• Schedule and oversee maintenance windows and deployment sequencing to ensure zero disruption to on-air linear feeds and 24/7 live studio operations.

• Partner with Broadcast Operations and Engineering teams to establish support escalation models, monitoring/telemetry dashboards, signal path redundancies, runbooks, and SOPs.

• Coordinate comprehensive operational training and knowledge transfer for operators, directors, editors, engineers, and technicians prior to on-air cutover.

Technology Modernization & Continuous Improvement • Partner with engineering leads to evaluate emerging broadcast standards (SMPTE ST 2110, NMOS, NDI) and cloud/virtualized production platforms.

• Identify workflow bottlenecks in the content creation and turnaround pipeline, introducing automation for ingest, transcode, QC, and archiving.

• Promote standard operating procedures and best-practice deployment frameworks across all broadcast and studio facilities.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED • Bachelor’s degree in Broadcast Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Media Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent practical industry experience.

• Technology project management experience, with experience directly managing broadcast engineering, studio facility, transmission, or media production technology projects.

• Proven track record leading projects through technical scoping, RFP/vendor ev

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