VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!, SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, GolfNow and GolfPass.

The Opportunity

Versant is seeking an experienced Operations Technical Manager to help shape the future of our production and technical operations ecosystem. This role serves as a critical connector between Production, Engineering, and Technical Operations, ensuring seamless execution of live, studio, streaming, and remote productions across multiple platforms.

The Operations Technical Manager combines deep technical expertise with operational leadership to support high-profile productions, optimize workflows, implement emerging technologies, and drive operational excellence across the organization. This individual will partner closely with production leadership, engineering teams, technical operators, and external vendors to ensure reliability, scalability, and innovation throughout the production lifecycle.

Why This Role Matters

As media workflows continue to evolve across linear, streaming, cloud-based, and remote production environments, this role plays a key part in advancing Versant's technical capabilities and operational effectiveness. The successful candidate will help deliver exceptional audience experiences while driving efficiencies, modernizing workflows, and enabling collaboration across multiple business functions.

Work Environment

This position is based in Los Angeles, California and requires regular onsite presence to support studio operations, control room activities, production planning, and live event execution.

What You'll Do

• Act as the primary liaison between Production, Engineering, and Technical Operations teams, ensuring alignment, communication, and successful execution across all phases of production.
• Lead technical planning, operational readiness, transmission coordination, and production support for live, studio, remote (REMI), and streaming productions.
• Provide technical leadership and hands-on support across control room, studio, transmission, and digital production environments.
• Partner with engineering teams to support system enhancements, infrastructure initiatives, workflow modernization efforts, and implementation of emerging technologies.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance efficiency, increase reliability, reduce operational complexity, and optimize production costs.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and operational expertise across routing, intercom, audio, video, replay, graphics, transmission, streaming, and production systems.
• Support cloud-based, hybrid, and remote production workflows while helping scale future-ready production capabilities.
• Manage technical vendors, budgets, production resources, documentation, and operational planning activities.
• Support production leadership and directing teams during live and recorded productions, helping ensure flawless technical execution.
  

What You Bring

Required Experience & Expertise

• 10+ years of experience in broadcast operations, streaming media, engineering, technical production, or related environments.
• Proven success supporting complex live productions across broadcast, streaming, studio, and remote production environments.
• Strong knowledge of production systems, engineering infrastructure, transmission workflows, and technical operations.
• Experience supporting REMI, cloud-based, and hybrid production models.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge technical and operational teams while driving collaboration and execution.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, organizational, and project management skills.
• Experience managing competing priorities, vendors, budgets, and production resources in fast-paced environments.

Technical Expertise

Experience supporting and operating technologies including:

• Studio and control room systems
• Remote production (REMI) workflows
• Streaming and digital production platforms
• LED volume wall environments
• Cloud-based and hybrid production workflows
• Evertz routing systems
• RTS intercom systems
• Calrec audio consoles
• Ross production switchers
• EVS replay systems
• XPression graphics systems
• Vizrt platforms including Viz Engine, Viz Trio, and Viz Pilot
• Spyder video processing systems
• Sony broadcast and cine-style camera systems
• Elemental encoding and streaming technologies
• Avid NEXIS, Media Composer, and MediaCentral environments
• Adobe Premiere Pro and related post-production workflows

Bonus Points For

• Experience within sports, entertainment, news, or live-event production environments.
• Experience supporting advanced studio technologies and LED volume productions.
• Expertise with Vizrt and Spyder systems.
• Strong understanding of live production directing workflows and control room operations.
• Experience leading workflow transformation, operational optimization, and technology modernization initiatives.
• Experience supporting multi-network or multi-platform media organizations.

How We Do It

Success at Versant requires both technical excellence and strong leadership behaviors:

• Trust – Build credibility through accountability, expertise, and dependable execution.
• Teamwork – Foster strong partnerships across Production, Engineering, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Transparency – Communicate openly, share information effectively, and promote alignment across teams.
• Agility – Adapt quickly to changing production needs, evolving technologies, and business priorities.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit – Seek innovative solutions, challenge conventional thinking, and continuously improve how work gets done.

Why You’ll Love It Here

• Be part of a transformative media company shaping the future of content creation and distribution.
• Work alongside talented professionals across production, engineering, operations, and technology.
• Influence the evolution of modern broadcast, streaming, cloud, and remote production workflows.
• Play a visible leadership role supporting premium content and high-profile productions.
• Competitive compensation package, including bonus eligibility.
• Comprehensive health, wellness, retirement, and employee benefit programs.

This role is eligible for a bonus.

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

For LA County and City Residents Only: VERSANT Media will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories, or arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with relevant legal requirements, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, where applicable.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.