Vice President, Alternative Entertainment

FOX Entertainment is a globally recognized media brand and a leading creator of multi-genre content across broadcast, streaming, digital, and emerging platforms. With a nearly 40-year legacy, FOX Entertainment is known for its innovative storytelling and platform-agnostic approach to developing and scaling intellectual property. The company operates through three core business units: FOX Television Network, FOX Entertainment Studios, and FOX Entertainment Global, producing hit series, animated content, and unscripted programming while expanding into digital storytelling, podcasting, and creator-led formats.

About the role

The Vice President, Unscripted is a creative and entrepreneurial executive responsible for originating, identifying, and securing bold unscripted ideas for FOX Entertainment. This role oversees selected projects from development through production and delivery, combining creative and commercial judgment with hands-on production experience. The ideal candidate will shape early-stage ideas into distinctive formats, secure creative partnerships, and ensure successful execution from pitch to air. Regular on-site attendance (minimum four days per week) is required.

Responsibilities

• Origination & Creative Development
  • Proactively originate, identify, and secure distinctive unscripted ideas, formats, talent-led concepts, and strategic partnerships for FOX.
  • Build and maintain a robust pipeline of original unscripted programming across entertainment, competition, reality, studio, factual, and talent-led genres.
  • Develop deep relationships with production companies, creators, executive producers, showrunners, talent, agents, distributors, and international format owners.
  • Actively seek ideas from established partners as well as emerging, international, and nontraditional creative sources.
  • Identify international formats, audience trends, and existing titles with potential for U.S. adaptation, refresh, or revival.
  • Evaluate pitches quickly and decisively, assessing creative potential and viability as distinctive, sustainable network series.
  • Shape early-stage ideas into clear, compelling formats with a strong central proposition, repeatable engine, tone, casting approach, and series progression.
  • Lead projects through decks, treatments, format documents, casting tapes, presentations, sizzles, and pilots, providing clear creative direction at every stage.
  • Build compelling internal pitches and advocate effectively for priority projects across the company.
  • Partner with Business Affairs and Production to secure rights, talent, creative partners, and deal structures.
• Current Programming & Delivery
  • Oversee the creative execution of selected series from pre-production through production, post-production, and final delivery.
  • Partner closely with executive producers, showrunners, and production companies to protect creative ambition while meeting network expectations.
  • Provide senior creative guidance on format, casting, production planning, field execution, and the edit, identifying problems early and driving solutions.
  • Review cuts and provide clear, prioritized, and actionable notes on storytelling, tone, format mechanics, pacing, casting, and production value.
  • Ensure final programs meet FOX creative standards, delivery requirements, schedules, and approved budgets.
  • Balance editorial excellence with production, post-production, budget, and schedule realities.
• Slate Strategy, Relationships & Market Intelligence
  • Contribute to the overall creative strategy and identify gaps and opportunities across the unscripted slate.
  • Develop targeted outreach strategies to find the right ideas and partners for FOX priorities.
  • Stay informed about competitive programming, audience behavior, emerging talent, and U.S. and international market developments.
  • Represent FOX at pitches, showcases, festivals, and international markets to source ideas and strengthen creative relationships.
  • Work cross-functionally with Production, Business Affairs, Finance, Marketing, Casting, and Publicity to advance priority projects.
• Budget & Operational Management
  • Work with Finance and Production to develop and manage development budgets and monitor production costs.
  • Identify opportunities to maximize creative value while maintaining fiscal responsibility.
  • Support forecasting, project planning, and resource allocation across the development and current slate.
  • Ensure projects remain on schedule and within approved budgets.

Requirements

• 13+ years of senior experience in unscripted television development, production, and/or current programming.
• Significant hands-on production experience, ideally as a producer, executive producer, showrunner, or senior creative lead.
• Proven track record of originating, developing, pitching, and delivering successful unscripted series.
• Demonstrated ability to source and secure compelling ideas, intellectual property, talent, and creative partnerships, and convert them into viable projects.
• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Strong creative judgment across entertainment, competition, reality, studio, factual, and talent-led programming.
• Deep relationships across the U.S. television production and creative community; international relationships and format experience are highly desirable.
• Strong understanding of production, post-production, budgets, schedules, and network delivery requirements.
• Entrepreneurial, curious, and proactive approach, with the confidence to pursue opportunities and make clear creative decisions.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate decisively in a fast-paced network environment.

Pay

The pay range for this role is $180,000–$250,000 annually, with the final offer dependent on education, skills, experience, and location. This role is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and 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 align with the applicable collective bargaining agreement.