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

Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, the pay rate/range for this role, with final offer amount dependent on education, skills, experience, and location is $102,000.00-150,000.00 annually. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, various benefits, including medical/dental/vision, insurance, a 401(k) plan, paid time off, and other benefits in accordance with applicable plan documents. Benefits for Union represented employees will be in accordance with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.