OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY
Fox TV StationsFOX Television Stations owns and operates 29 full power broadcast television stations in the U.S. These include stations located in 14 of the top 15 largest designated market areas, or DMAs, and duopolies in 11 DMAs, including the three largest DMAs (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago). Of these stations, 18 are affiliated with the FOX Network. In addition to distributing sports, entertainment and syndicated content, our television stations collectively produce approximately 1,200 hours of local news every week. These stations leverage viewer, distributor and advertiser demand for the FOX Network’s national content.This is an on-site role open to any of our station locations:
Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas–Fort Worth, Detroit, Gainesville, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis–St. Paul, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, Seattle–Tacoma, Tampa Bay, Washington, DC
The Senior Vice President, Engineering, Technology & Operations works directly with Senior Engineering management to execute the technology plan across all O&O stations. This role is responsible for creating the capital budget for all group projects, working directly with local VPs of Engineering and local finance teams to ensure timely implementation. The SVP collaborates with business teams to understand future growth plans and partners with leading technology vendors and service providers to proactively identify opportunities to design technology solutions that improve efficiency and create business value.
At FOX, you will have full power to bring your best tech game to invent and build technology that delivers a high-quality viewer experience to millions across FOX networks, digital platforms, mobile applications, websites, and licensing partnerships.
The way we consume media has fundamentally changed. We watch on our laptops, phones, tablets, and TVs. We stream, record, and binge. Who knows what we’ll do next? You do – because you help build the technology to realize it!
ABOUT YOU
You care about your team and are invested in their success
You have fun with new technology and are excited by its potential to change how things are done
You have an entrepreneur's spirit and enjoy problem-solving
You LOVE getting stuff done, not just talking about it!
A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
Engineering & Operations
Builds and mentors local engineering teams
Represents as lead Engineering and Operations resource for all stations, including running weekly update meetings, updating the budget, and organizing critical information for FCC compliance.
Analyzes business and technical requirements to identify improvement opportunities
Evaluates solutions portfolio against third-party offerings, and makes the big calls by selecting and maintaining relationships with third-party vendors
Drives the transition to next-generation engineering and operations systems that meet security and regulatory requirements
Forecasts and creates the department’s budget, and manages spending
Collaboration & Partnerships
Consults with FOX Television Stations executives to understand business needs, to collaborate on future growth plans, and to develop engineering and operations solutions.
Partners with the Engineering teams to design and build innovative technology solutions for challenging business issues.
Performance Improvement
Knows that data is critical for making informed business decisions and leverages it to understand and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of your amazing team's performance
Analyzes dashboards and constantly optimizes system security and testing to deliver best-in-class designs
Prioritizes the use of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to motivate the team
People Management & Development
Inspires a culture of continuous learning, especially in emerging technologies
Champions' career development programs to retain top talent
Builds and motivates high-performing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes
Deliberately creates an environment that fosters the development of all-star team players
We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable law.
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 $300,000.00-415,000.00 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.