Tech Project Manager, Video Platforms

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.

Role Summary

The Technical Project Manager, Video Platforms is responsible for coordinating the day-to-day planning and execution of technology projects across VERSANT’s video platform ecosystem. Working closely with Video Platform Engineering, Product, Operations, and Portfolio Management, this role drives project schedules, tracks milestones and dependencies, facilitates cross-functional delivery, and ensures risks, decisions, and action items are clearly managed. The position supports initiatives spanning video publishing, streaming, playback, metadata, content delivery, advertising, and distribution, with a strong focus on execution discipline, operational readiness, and timely delivery.

Responsibilities

Project Planning & Execution

• Manage the execution of video platform projects from planning through implementation and launch.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items.
• Coordinate work across Engineering, Product, Operations, Infrastructure, Editorial, Advertising, and external technology partners.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and status checkpoints.
• Track progress against committed timelines and ensure project owners are aligned on deliverables and next steps.
• Escalate schedule, scope, resource, or technical risks when appropriate.
• Ensure project decisions, requirements, and delivery commitments are clearly documented.

Video Platform Delivery

• Support projects across video ingestion, encoding and transcoding, metadata, playback, content delivery, streaming, and distribution capabilities.
• Coordinate technical delivery activities across multiple platform and application teams.
• Support launch planning for new platform capabilities, migrations, upgrades, and major releases.
• Coordinate operational readiness activities, including testing, deployment planning, support coverage, documentation, and handoffs to operations teams.
• Support readiness planning for high-profile live events and other business-critical video initiatives.
• Help ensure changes are aligned with established release, change management, and production support processes.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as a central project coordination point between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Partner with Product Managers and engineering leads to translate requirements and priorities into executable project plans.
• Coordinate dependencies between Video Platforms and adjacent teams such as Cloud, Networking, Data, Ad Technology, Content Management, and Digital Operations.
• Work with external vendors and technology partners to track deliverables, dependencies, and issue resolution.
• Facilitate timely decisions by ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into project status, risks, and open questions.

Portfolio Management Partnership & Reporting

• Partner with the Portfolio Management team to ensure project schedules, status, milestones, and risks are accurately reflected in portfolio planning and reporting.
• Provide project-level updates and delivery forecasts for portfolio and leadership reviews.
• Support intake and planning activities by providing project scope, sequencing, dependency, and delivery information.
• Maintain accurate project information across Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, or similar tools.
• Prepare concise status reports, dashboards, and leadership updates.

Risk, Issue & Dependency Management

• Proactively identify and track project risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Drive follow-up and resolution of open actions across participating teams.
• Maintain risk, issue, and decision logs and ensure appropriate escalation.
• Coordinate mitigation and contingency plans for critical milestones and launches.
• Support retrospectives and post-launch reviews to identify opportunities for process and execution improvements.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of experience in technical project management, project management, delivery management, or a related role.
• Experience managing technology projects involving multiple engineering, product, operations, and business teams.
• Strong experience building and maintaining project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and risk registers.
• Experience coordinating software, platform, infrastructure, or digital technology delivery.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Scrum, or hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Strong organizational and follow-through skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, Airtable, or comparable project management tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting streaming video, OTT, digital media, video publishing, or content delivery platforms.
• Familiarity with video technologies and workflows such as encoding, transcoding, playback, DRM, metadata, CDN delivery, and live streaming.
• Experience supporting production launches, platform migrations, infrastructure upgrades, or live-event readiness.
• Experience working with Portfolio Management, PMO, or centralized planning functions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience in media, entertainment, sports, news, streaming, or digital publishing environments.
• PMP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, or similar project management certification preferred.

Desired Characteristics

• Highly organized and detail-oriented with a strong focus on execution.
• Comfortable working with technical teams and understanding complex system dependencies.
• Able to drive accountability and follow-through without direct authority.
• Strong judgment around prioritization, escalation, and risk management.
• Collaborative working style with the ability to build relationships across technical and non-technical teams.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities and multiple concurrent deliverables

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 [email protected].

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.

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