Director, Production Engineering

Work locations: Flexible model allowing for remote, hybrid, or full-time in-office work in select locales. Office locations include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Stamford, CT. Eligible remote 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.

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 includes responsibility for production and broadcast technology environments in New York, Stamford, and Los Angeles, as well as media-centric services and workflows operating within AWS and other cloud platforms.

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. The Director is accountable for maintaining highly available, resilient, and performant technology platforms that support the organization's evolving business, production, and content delivery requirements, especially as many of these functions move to cloud-based systems and workflows.

This leader manages two engineering teams: one focused on post-production engineering supporting video editing and graphic design environments, and another focused on studio and media systems engineering, supporting daily content flow, live events, and live signal distribution and routing needs. In partnership with Technology, Production Operations, and business stakeholders, the Director drives alignment of technology strategy, resources, processes, and service delivery models to support enterprise objectives, including modernizing production infrastructure, advancing cloud adoption, and optimizing hybrid operational models.

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, including 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 innovative and creative decision-making.
• Assure that resources are utilized efficiently to fulfill all departmental responsibilities.
• Identify and recommend process improvement opportunities, and document system workflows and dependencies to streamline support processes.
• Evaluate technologies and conduct research to determine optimal solutions for given needs; provide technical and architectural guidance on engineering projects to ensure 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 such as business and physical sciences are also 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 AWS experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a lead architect or management role, preferably managing 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 designing and orchestrating daily support responses, training, and documentation.
• Strategic thinker demonstrating initiative, innovation, and the ability to work independently.
• Exemplary oral and written communication skills, with the ability to present to audiences with varying levels of technical and operational experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 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 interconnection, networking, and protocols.
• Solid knowledge of key components involved in storage systems including SAN, NAS, and archive systems (LTO).

Pay

Annual Pay Range: $170,744 - $199,771

Annual Incentive Target: 17.50%

Benefits

A+E offers a competitive total compensation package, which includes healthcare coverage, 401k matching, and a range of other benefits. Learn more at www.aegm.com/careers.