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About the Role

The Director is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational oversight, and continuous evolution of the Media Engineering organization across a hybrid production, post-production and processing ecosystem spanning both on-premises facilities and cloud-based infrastructure. This role provides vision, direction, and governance for all day-to-day Media Engineering functions, ensuring operational excellence, service reliability, security, scalability, and continuous improvement across mission-critical production systems and workflows.

Responsibilities

Provide budgets, sourcing, and purchasing of new technical equipment and/or services to engineering management.
Manage Engineering staff daily and provide leadership to teams to improve teamwork, training, alignment to core values and business objectives, job satisfaction, and communication.
Position Engineering staff members to exercise judgment based on their technical and tactical experiences to facilitate development of their innovative and creative decision-making skills.
Assure that resources are being utilized in the most efficient manner to fulfill all responsibilities of the department.
Identify and recommend process improvement opportunities and document system workflows and dependencies to make support processes easy to follow and maintain.
Evaluate technologies and research to determine the best solutions for a given need.
Provide technical and architectural guidance on engineering projects to ensure teams are on the right track building scalable solutions.
Support the department’s efforts around culture, diversity and inclusion throughout all areas of responsibility.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
Degrees in analytical fields including business and physical sciences are also highly applicable.
10+ years supporting media production and/or television network facilities.
5+ years of experience building and supporting media systems and workflows that leverage the cloud, with a preference for a track record of working in AWS.
5+ years of experience in a lead architect or management role, with a preference for having managed other managers and teams.
Experience supporting Post-production equipment technology and data networks.
Experience working directly with users to understand and resolve complex issues.
Experience working with developers and software engineers.
Experience with designing and orchestrating daily support responses, training and documentation.
A strategic thinker who demonstrates initiative, innovation, and the ability to work independently.
Exemplary communication skills, both oral and written.
Presentation skills require the ability to inform people with varying levels of technical and operational experience.
AWS Certification such as AWS Certified Solution Architect
Experience with cloud-based post production and video editing systems, including workstation management tools like Arch Platform Technologies
Knowledge of multiple hyper-scaler and cloud environments (GCP, Azure, etc.)
Experience working in an Agile/SCRUM environment.
Knowledge of AutoCad and other technical drawing tools
Experience creating and documenting test cases
Experience in scoping large scale projects and budgeting for them
Experience with media-related WAN acceleration and file transfer orchestration tools, including Aspera and Signiant.
In-depth experience with video production and post-production technologies including various interconnection and networking as well, protocols
Solid knowledge of key components involved in storage systems including SAN, NAS and archive systems (LTO).

Skills

Media Engineering
Production Technology
Broadcast Technology
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
Post-production Engineering
Studio and Media Systems Engineering
Live Events
Live Signal Distribution and Routing
Technology Strategy
Cloud Adoption
Hybrid Operational Models
Budget Management
Staff Management
Process Improvement
System Workflow Documentation
Technology Evaluation
Technical and Architectural Guidance
Culture, Diversity, and Inclusion
AWS
Post Production Systems
Video Editing Systems
Workstation Management
GCP
Azure
Agile/SCRUM
AutoCad
Technical Drawing
Test Case Creation
Project Scoping
Budgeting
WAN Acceleration
File Transfer Orchestration
Aspera
Signiant
Video Production Technologies
Networking Protocols
Storage Systems (SAN, NAS, LTO)

Location

New York City
Los Angeles
Chicago
Stamford, CT
Remote (eligible states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming)

Work Type

Remote
Hybrid
Full-time in office

Experience Level

Director
10+ years supporting media production and/or television network facilities
5+ years of experience building and supporting media systems and workflows that leverage the cloud
5+ years of experience in a lead architect or management role

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
Degrees in analytical fields including business and physical sciences are also highly applicable

Salary/Compensations

$170,744 - $199,771

Benefits

Healthcare coverage
401k matching

About the Company

A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.
We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.
A+E Global Media® is a collection of culture brands that includes A&E®, The HISTORY® Channel, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI®, VICE TV and BIOGRAPHY®.
We are in seven out of 10 American homes and have a cumulative reach of 342 million people worldwide.
We also have 500+ million digital users across our sites and streaming apps, which include A&E Crime Central, HISTORY Vault and Lifetime Movie Club.
We are in the story business, and just as the industry and art form have evolved, so have we.
Since our founding in 1983 with just two cable channels, we have grown into a multiplatform, multimedia, multigenre content creator.
To learn more, please visit us at aegm.com.

Equal Opportunity

A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle.
The company’s employment actions and decisions – including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination – are made without regard to an employee’s race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact careers@aegm.com
For additional information and review please contact careers@aegm.com