Project Manager, Video Distribution

Sand Cherry Associates

1d • $110,000 - $150,000 • Remote

About The Position

The Video Distribution Project Manager will manage the planning, coordination, and delivery of a large-scale terrestrial Content Delivery Network (CDN) initiative supporting satellite-terrestrial video distribution across the United States. The role supports cross-functional work to deliver a resilient, scalable video distribution platform that can support peak demand, optimize last-mile bandwidth consumption, control operating costs, and maintain reliable service during significant weather events and other network disruptions.

The Project Manager will work closely with video engineering, network architecture, operations, customers, affiliates, vendors, and other business stakeholders to translate technical strategy into executable plans, manage dependencies and risks, and drive testing, readiness, deployment, and operational handoff. This is a remote role working mostly EST hours. Candidates must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or visa transfers.

This is a long-term consulting opportunity with an annual salary range of $110,000–$150,000. Sand Cherry Associates describes a communicative, collaborative culture and a digital workforce in which team members manage their own workloads, deliver exceptional work for clients, and can pursue professional career growth.

Requirements

• 7+ years of project or program management experience leading complex technology, telecommunications, network, media, or infrastructure initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing large, cross-functional technical programs from planning through testing, deployment, operational readiness, and handoff.
• Working knowledge of large-scale video distribution, live and linear video delivery, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IP-based media transport, or distributed networks.
• Understanding of terrestrial IP networking, traffic management, capacity planning, network resiliency, monitoring, and optimization concepts.
• Experience managing integrated project plans, budgets, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, governance, status reporting, and executive communications.
• Experience developing and coordinating test plans, acceptance criteria, deployment readiness, cutover activities, and operational transition for critical technology platforms.
• Experience managing technology vendors and implementation partners.
• Proven ability to understand the end-to-end video distribution ecosystem and connect technical delivery decisions to business outcomes.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills, including the ability to manage competing priorities and make timely, data-informed recommendations.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical issues for business and executive audiences.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Proficiency with standard project management, documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Successful completion of applicable background screening requirements.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Broadcast Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• Must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or visa transfers.

Nice To Haves

• Experience coordinating technical work involving satellite-terrestrial distribution, headends, earth stations, TAPs, receivers, packet recovery, media edge, or related video infrastructure.
• Familiarity with ARQ, RIST-based transport, packet recovery networks, or Video Services Forum specifications, including VSF TR-06-4 Parts 6 and 7.
• PMP or Agile certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and delivery roadmap for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery program.
• Coordinate cross-functional work across video engineering, network architecture, operations, testing, customer teams, affiliates, vendors, and external technology partners.
• Facilitate requirements, design, planning, status, risk, and decision meetings; document outcomes, owners, and due dates and ensure timely follow-through.
• Manage project scope, schedule, budget, RAID logs, decisions, change control, and executive status reporting across the full project lifecycle.
• Translate complex technical work involving CDN architecture, IP media transport, packet recovery, headends, capacity, and network monitoring into clear workstreams and actionable plans.
• Track delivery of capacity planning, traffic engineering, regional scalability, last-mile bandwidth optimization, and cost-management objectives.
• Coordinate test strategy and execution across laboratory, peak-demand, packet-loss, recovery, resiliency, weather-event, and operational-readiness scenarios.
• Establish and track measurable acceptance criteria, including recovery performance, latency, network availability, capacity, utilization, and operational reporting objectives.
• Manage vendor evaluations, procurement dependencies, implementation commitments, and delivery performance for technology partners and engineering resources.
• Identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues that may affect performance, interoperability, timeline, budget, customer readiness, or operational continuity.
• Coordinate deployment planning, customer and affiliate readiness, communications, cutover, implementation validation, and transition to ongoing operations and support.
• Ensure project deliverables align with applicable architecture standards, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), operational controls, monitoring requirements, and lifecycle management processes.
• Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to senior leaders and technical stakeholders, including progress, blockers, trade-offs, financial impacts, and recommended actions.
• Build strong working relationships across engineering, operations, vendors, customers, affiliates, and business teams while maintaining accountability for project outcomes.

Benefits

• Professional career growth opportunities.
• A collaborative and communicative culture.
• Opportunity to be part of a digital workforce with workplace self-responsibility.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior