Director, Media Workflows

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Media Workflows department is the connective tissue of FOX Sports’ content operations — an umbrella group spanning post production, live studio playback, workflows from ingest to air for all of FOX Sports’ production and operations teams. FOX Sports produces a wide array of live sports as well as original studio and other programming for air on the FOX Broadcasting Channel, FS1 & FS2, and digital platforms such as FOX One and various social media channels.

As content volume, speed-to-air, and the number of distribution surfaces continue to grow, the department’s mandate is no longer only to keep these workflows running reliably — it is to continuously re-engineer them into a media supply chain that is increasingly software-defined, cloud-enabled, data-rich, and agent-assisted, without compromising the reliability that live production demands.

The Director, Media Workflows carries a deliberate dual mandate: to run today’s post production and live studio workflows and operations with uncompromising reliability, and to lead the transformation of those operations — introducing AI, automation, and orchestration as core, owned outcomes rather than experiments at the edges. This is a single leadership role that both operates the plant and changes it.

Reporting to the Vice President of Media Workflows, the Director oversees all facets of Post Production — managing media teams for post and live productions, technical operation of edit bays, live studio edit/playback systems, and capital projects for improvements across all areas.

Within the first 12–18 months, this Director will have kept live and post production reliably on-air while measurably advancing the department’s transformation: Agents and automation embedded into named workflows with tracked ROI; a metadata and content-as-data foundation in place; a repeatable innovation pipeline moving proofs-of-concept into production; and a workforce actively reskilled for automated/assisted operations. The measure is not that the workflows still run — it is that they are demonstrably faster, more discoverable, more automated, and more resilient than they were.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Operations & Production Continuity

• Oversee workflow practices across technical facilities — hardware, software, and personnel — to meet the creative and operational requirements of all shows and events
• Architect and maintain content management and workflow systems at an enterprise level, spanning operational requirements for live and post production and administrative management
• Maintain focus on high-level company objectives while managing the granular, interconnected dependencies of highly visible live production workflows; solves problems appropriately and escalates when necessary
• Own capital planning and project delivery for improvements across all post production and media workflow areas, sequencing modernization against live-event and craft edit obligations

Automation & Workflow Orchestration

• Design agentic and human-in-the-loop workflows that embed agents into production, defining where automation acts autonomously and where human review is required, with editorial quality and speed-to-air as the measured outcomes
• Own the orchestration and automation layer connecting MAM/PAM, playback, and ingest systems —event-driven and API-first — treating these workflows as products with roadmaps rather than facilities to keep alive
• Accountable for Innovation ROI: define success metrics, tracks adoption and cost-to-value, and retires tools that do not earn their place

Cloud, Hybrid & Distributed Production

• Accountable for cloud and hybrid media workflows and for remote/distributed post production models, extending edit and playback beyond fixed on-prem facilities, exchanging content anywhere in the world
• Partner with Engineering to define the reference architecture for where workloads run (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid) based on latency, cost, and reliability

Content Protection & Resilience

• Accountable for content protection and resilience across a surface widened by cloud services and third-party vendors — partnering with Information Security on vendor and supply-chain risk
• Ensure automated pipelines fail safely, with monitoring, fallbacks, and recovery paths appropriate to live, no-second-take production

Workforce Transformation & Change Leadership

• Lead reskilling and role redefinition as automation reshapes media operations, defining how post and live-production roles evolve alongside automated workflows
• Own management of NABET union freelancers — contract policy, workflow practices, scheduling, budget, and personnel matters — and navigates union relationships thoughtfully through operational and technological change.
• Serve as change agent for the department, bringing team leads and frontline staff along through transformation with clear communication and prioritized, fluid information

Innovation Pipeline & Strategic Partnerships

• Run innovation as a repeatable function — structured proofs-of-concept, an emerging-technology evaluation pipeline, and clear graduation criteria from pilot to production — rather than as ad hoc experimentation.
• Manage strategic cloud, automation, and tooling partnerships, positioning Fox Sports to assert industry leadership in workflow and media-technology advances.

Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Maintain operational continuity and alignment across Fox Sports — other Operations groups, Production, Engineering, Media Management, technology groups, and Creative Services.
• Sustain close relationships with production leads to understand evolving workflow needs, and with engineering and technical leaders to align strategy, technology trends, and vendor direction.
• Further a culture of collaboration, operational excellence, and accountability within post production and, indirectly, across FOX Sports

WHAT YOU WILL NEED

• 8+ years of professional experience in network-level broadcast and/or post production environments.
• Hands-on experience with cloud and hybrid media workflows and their operational and cost-governance implications for post-production or broadcast environments.
• Experience deploying AI/ML into production workflows — not only fluency with tools (Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, etc.), but hands-on experience integrating AI services, designing agentic or human-in-the-loop workflows, and evaluating outcomes. Understanding of machine-learning training and implementation
• Expertise with post production tools across editorial and graphics applications, MAM/PAM solutions, media-centric file-based workflows, and digital file-transfer solutions
• Strong background in leading technical teams, change management, and enterprise-level business initiatives, with the ability to build consensus and motivate staff across a large landscape
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and documentation skills; proficiency across Google Workspace and collaboration tools (Slack, Zoom, Outlook); knowledge of both Mac and PC environments

NICE TO HAVE BUT NOT A DEALBREAKER

• Education in TV Production, Broadcasting, Engineering, or a related communications field
• 3+ years of enterprise-level management in a related field; supplemental education in business management
• Direct or adjacent experience in product development / product management, software engineering, or DevOps — the disciplines behind treating workflows as products and automation as software
• Familiarity with distributed / HRP (at-home) production models and cloud FinOps
• Awareness of content-authenticity and provenance standards (e.g., C2PA) and the rights, likeness, and governance considerations around synthetic and AI-modified media
• Exposure to observability/telemetry practices and defining operations by measured SLAs and quality

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.

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