Senior Manager, Production Technology Programs

Fox•Los Angeles, CA

5d•$128,000 - $140,000•Onsite

About The Position

FOX Entertainment is hiring a Senior Manager, Production Technology Programs to shape and advance production-facing technology strategy across Entertainment. This role begins at greenlight and extends through dailies, ingest, and transitions into post-production environments. It partners with Production, Studio Operations, Marketing, and Technology leaders to co-develop and operationalize scalable production technology frameworks that support content creation at scale. This is a strategic program leadership role focused on physical production and early post workflows. It ensures facilities, field infrastructure, vendor ecosystems, and production-to-post pathways are aligned, repeatable, and built for long-term scalability. The Senior Manager, Production Technology Programs focuses on supporting productions by ensuring they follow clearly defined, aligned standards and integrate smoothly into centralized platforms, enterprise systems, and core infrastructure environments. Regular, on-site attendance at the workplace for a minimum of four (4) days per week is an essential function of the position. The selected candidate must be able to reliably meet this requirement.

Requirements

7+ years leading complex, cross-functional technology programs
Experience supporting physical production and/or post-production workflows, including familiarity with dailies, media ingest, and archive workflows
Experience aligning external vendors and technical partners
Strong understanding of the production lifecycle from planning through ingest
Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
Strategic operator with production credibility
Structured program leadership at scale
Executive-ready communicator
Comfortable in matrixed, fast-moving environments
Builder of standards, not one-off solutions

Nice To Haves

Studio, network, or large-scale content production experience
Familiarity with IP-based production infrastructure
Experience implementing emerging or AI-augmented production technologies
Background in production operations, media technology, or post systems

Responsibilities

Studio-Wide Production Technology Frameworks Partner with studio stakeholders to co-develop and implement scalable production technology standards with measurable success criteria
Reduce variability across productions by establishing repeatable workflow models
Serve as the senior program escalation point for production technology alignment and readiness
Balance creative flexibility with operational discipline to enable production at scale
Production Lifecycle Enablement Provide end-to-end program leadership from greenlight through post-ingest handoff
Align physical builds & designs (e.g., facilities, owned production gear) with defined technical, workflow, and archive requirements
Drive proactive readiness, resolving gaps before production launch rather than reacting after issues surface
Production To Post + Archive Alignment Standardize ingest, metadata, naming, and archive expectations & policy
Ensure clean transitions into internal marketing, animation, and external post partners
Define and reinforce clear handoff boundaries with centralized platform teams
Vendor & External Ecosystem Strategy Align production vendors, post partners, and integrators to consistent technical frameworks
Evaluate external best practices and incorporate them into studio standards
Prevent siloed or one-off vendor implementations that create operational risk
Influence FOX’s production technology posture within the broader production technology market
Innovation & Emerging Technology Enablement Partner with internal innovation teams to operationalize new tools within production & partner environments
Translate emerging technologies into scalable, production-ready deployment models
Create structured implementation pathways regardless of whether solutions are AI-driven or traditional
Governance & Executive Visibility Own the production technology program roadmaps, risk posture, and executive-level reporting
Surface tradeoffs and operational impacts early
Translate production complexity into clear, strategic decision points