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About the Role

The Director, Digital Production is responsible for operational leadership, production management, and post-production strategy for A+E's Digital Content organization. This role oversees the production of original short-form digital content and leads post-production operations, finishing, delivery, and technical production workflows.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational leadership and strategic oversight for Digital Production and Brand Studio Post, ensuring content is properly planned, produced, finished, and delivered across platforms.
• Lead and performance-manage Production Managers, Asset Manager, Coordinators, and post-production teams, ensuring strong ownership, prioritization, accountability, and talent development across teams.
• Oversee post-production operations, finishing, delivery, asset management, and quality control standards, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability across workflows.
• Serve as the primary production and post-production partner to Creative, Digital Content, Editorial, Production Operations, Technology, and senior leadership, aligning production capabilities with business and content priorities.
• Drive workflow optimization, technical innovation, and adoption of new production technologies, AI-enabled tools, and operational solutions to improve efficiency, collaboration, and scalability.
• Oversee resource planning and production capacity across Digital Production and Brand Studio Post functions.
• Champion process improvement, operational consistency, and cross-functional collaboration to improve visibility, efficiency, and predictability across the organization.

Requirements

• Experience working with content requiring elevated legal, standards, or reputational oversight.
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing production and post-production teams through clear expectations, accountability, and effective talent management.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior leadership, creative teams, editorial teams, and technical partners.
• Demonstrated expertise in production operations, post-production workflows, resource planning, budget management, and operational risk mitigation.
• Deep understanding of digital content production, video finishing, asset management, quality control, and multi-platform delivery requirements.
• Ability to oversee high-volume production environments while balancing competing priorities, deadlines, and business objectives.
• Experience evaluating, implementing, and optimizing production technologies, workflow solutions, and emerging tools—including AI-enabled workflows—to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Strong understanding of video codecs, file formats, metadata, media asset management systems, and distribution workflows across digital, social, FAST, and streaming platforms.
• Experience building and implementing scalable operational processes, delivery standards, and workflow frameworks across cross-functional teams.
• Strong working knowledge of Airtable, media asset management systems, project management tools, and post-production software ecosystems.
• Proven ability to identify operational gaps, recommend technical solutions, and drive continuous improvement across production and post-production functions.
• Solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, navigate ambiguity, and address issues proactively rather than reactively.
• Ability to translate creative and business objectives into effective production strategies, operational plans, and scalable execution models.

Skills

• Microsoft Office
• PowerPoint
• Keynote
• Project management tools
• AI-powered productivity tools (e.g., ChatGPT)
• Airtable or similar workflow tools

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

• 7-10 years of experience in marketing production
• At least 3 years in a senior leadership role

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred

Salary/Compensations

• $136,752 - $160,000
• Annual Incentive Target: 17.50%

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• 401k matching

About the Company

• A+E Global Media operates on a flexible model that allows for remote, hybrid or full time in office work.
• A+E Global Media is a global media and entertainment company that values diversity, representation, flexibility, and kindness.
• Forbes named us one of America’s Best Midsize Employers.
• Newsweek included us in their lists of America’s Most Loved Workplaces for 2021 and 2022, and America’s Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2023.
• Inc. recognized A+E Global Media as one of the Best Workplaces of 2025.
• A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

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.
• We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.