Transmission Technology Manager

Company Description

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.

Job Description

The Opportunity

Versant is seeking a Transmission Technology Manager to manage the technology, tools, and vendor solutions that support Transmission and Acquisition operations across our broadcast environment. This role will partner closely with Engineering, Production, Network Engineering, Broadcast Distribution, external partners, and vendors to ensure reliable live-to-air operations while identifying, implementing, and maintaining emerging broadcast technologies.

Why This Role Matters: This role plays a critical part in keeping Versant’s transmission infrastructure reliable, scalable, and ready for the future. By managing operational technology, vendor relationships, equipment upgrades, and proof-of-concept initiatives, this person helps ensure the continuity and quality of audio, video, and data delivery across a fast-moving media environment.

This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the New Jersey office a minimum of three days per week.

What You'll Do

• Partner with Engineering teams to ensure transmission and acquisition equipment is operational, maintained, and upgraded through coordinated maintenance windows.
• Procure, implement, and manage existing and emerging broadcast technologies, tools, and solutions that support live transmission operations.
• Lead proofs of concept for new tools and technologies, evaluating operational value, scalability, security requirements, and implementation needs.
• Collaborate with Production, Network Engineering, and Broadcast Distribution teams on current and future streaming video initiatives.
• Own vendor relationships, including equipment procurement, vendor onboarding, security review coordination, and service performance management.
• Conduct periodic reviews of telecom and vendor invoices, contracts, and SLAs to identify service improvements and cost-saving opportunities.

Qualifications

What You Bring

• 5–7 years of proven experience in a live-to-air television operations environment, such as TOC or NOC, with responsibility for audio, video, data quality, and service continuity.
• Hands-on expertise operating and configuring transmission facility hardware, including LiveU, satellite receivers, antennas, IP/ASI encoders and decoders, and IP and SDI video plant routers.
• Strong understanding of operational technology for a 24/7 television or broadcast facility.
• Effective presentation skills, with the ability to communicate project plans, budgets, procedures, and technical recommendations to a range of stakeholders.
• Proficiency in Microsoft 365, including Word, PowerPoint, and Teams, as well as other collaborative platforms.
• A highly organized, detail-oriented approach with strong follow-through and a solutions-based mindset for troubleshooting and workflow improvement.
• A working style grounded in Versant’s “How We Do It” behaviors: Trust, by owning commitments and supporting reliable operations; Teamwork, by partnering across Engineering, Production, Distribution, and vendor teams; Transparency, by communicating status, risks, costs, and recommendations clearly; Agility, by adapting to evolving broadcast and streaming technology needs; and Entrepreneurial Spirit, by identifying smarter tools, workflows, and cost-saving opportunities.

Bonus Points

• Deep subject matter expertise in transmission, acquisition, or broadcast operations technology within a 24/7 media environment.
• Experience managing vendor SLAs, telecom services, security reviews, or technology onboarding processes.
• Familiarity with streaming video workflows and the intersection of traditional broadcast and IP-based distribution.

Why You’ll Love It Here

At Versant, you’ll help support trusted brands and platforms that reach audiences across news, sports, entertainment, golf, and digital experiences. You’ll work with teams that value operational excellence, collaboration, and practical innovation, with the opportunity to influence the tools and technologies that keep our broadcast operations moving forward.

Additional Information

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.

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.