Senior Manager, Production Technology Programs
Overview
FOX Entertainment is a media brand known for its independent, innovative spirit and provocative storytelling. Formed in 2019, the company has diversified its portfolio through acquisitions and partnerships, focusing on broadcast television, streaming platforms, and original content.
Job Description
The Senior Manager, Production Technology Programs is responsible for shaping and advancing production-facing technology strategy across Entertainment. This role involves working closely with Production, Studio Operations, Marketing, and Technology leaders to co-develop and operationalize scalable production technology frameworks that support content creation at scale.
Responsibilities
Partner with studio stakeholders to co-develop and implement scalable production technology standards with measurable success criteria.
Reduce variability across productions by establishing repeatable workflow models.
Serve as the senior program escalation point for production technology alignment and readiness.
Balance creative flexibility with operational discipline to enable production at scale.
Enable end-to-end program leadership from greenlight through post-ingest handoff.
Align physical builds & designs with defined technical, workflow, and archive requirements.
Drive proactive readiness, resolving gaps before production launch rather than reacting after issues surface.
Ensure clean transitions into internal marketing, animation, and external post partners.
Define and reinforce clear handoff boundaries with centralized platform teams.
Align production vendors, post partners, and integrators to consistent technical frameworks.
Evaluate external best practices and incorporate them into studio standards.
Prevent siloed or one-off vendor implementations that create operational risk.
Influence FOX’s production technology posture within the broader production technology market.
Partner with internal innovation teams to operationalize new tools within production & partner environments.
Translate emerging technologies into scalable, production-ready deployment models.
Create structured implementation pathways regardless of whether solutions are AI-driven or traditional.
Own the production technology program roadmaps, risk posture, and executive-level reporting.
Surface tradeoffs and operational impacts early.
Translate production complexity into clear, strategic decision points.
Requirements
7+ years leading complex, cross-functional technology programs.
Experience supporting physical production and/or post-production workflows, including familiarity with dailies, media ingest, and archive workflows.
Strong understanding of the production lifecycle from planning through ingest.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
Strategic operator with production credibility.
Structured program leadership at scale.
Executive-ready communicator.
Comfortable in matrixed, fast-moving environments.
Builder of standards, not one-off solutions.
Qualifications
Studio, network, or large-scale content production experience.
Familiarity with IP-based production infrastructure.
Experience implementing emerging or AI-augmented production technologies.
Background in production operations, media technology, or post systems.
Benefits
This role is 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.