Project Manager, Video Distribution

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and uphold the integrated project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements, and delivery roadmap for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery program.

• Coordinate cross-functional efforts across video engineering, network architecture, operations, testing, customer teams, affiliates, vendors, and external technology partners.

• Facilitate meetings focused on requirements, design, planning, status, risk, and decision-making; document outcomes, responsible parties, and deadlines, ensuring timely follow-up.

• Oversee project scope, schedule, budget, RAID logs, decision-making, change control, and executive status reporting throughout the entire project lifecycle.

• Convert complex technical tasks related to CDN architecture, IP media transport, packet recovery, headends, capacity, and network monitoring into clear workstreams and actionable plans.

• Monitor capacity planning, traffic engineering, regional scalability, last-mile bandwidth optimization, and cost-management objectives.

• Coordinate testing across various scenarios, including laboratory, peak-demand, packet-loss, recovery, resiliency, weather events, and operational readiness.

• Establish and monitor acceptance criteria for recovery performance, latency, network availability, capacity, utilization, and operational reporting.

• Manage vendor assessments, procurement dependencies, implementation commitments, and delivery performance.

• Identify, evaluate, and escalate risks and issues that could affect performance, interoperability, timeline, budget, customer readiness, or operational continuity.

• Facilitate deployment planning, customer and affiliate readiness, communications, cutover, implementation validation, and transition to ongoing operations and support.

• Ensure that deliverables comply with architectural standards, CONOPS, operational controls, monitoring requirements, and lifecycle management processes.

• Provide decision-focused updates to senior leaders and technical stakeholders.

• Cultivate working relationships across engineering, operations, vendors, customers, affiliates, and business teams while maintaining accountability for results.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of project or program management experience leading intricate technology, telecommunications, network, media, or infrastructure initiatives.

• Proven experience managing large, cross-functional technical programs from planning through testing, deployment, operational readiness, and transition.

• Practical knowledge of large-scale video distribution, live and linear video delivery, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IP-based media transport, or distributed networks.

• Strongly preferred experience coordinating technical work involving satellite-terrestrial distribution, headends, earth stations, TAPs, receivers, packet recovery, media edge, or related video infrastructure.

• Understanding of terrestrial IP networking, traffic management, capacity planning, network resiliency, monitoring, and optimization principles.

• Experience in managing integrated project plans, budgets, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, governance, status reporting, and executive communications.

• Proven experience developing and coordinating test plans, acceptance criteria, deployment readiness, cutover activities, and operational transitions for critical technology platforms.

• Experience managing technology vendors and implementation partners.

• Familiarity with ARQ, RIST-based transport, packet recovery networks, or Video Services Forum specifications, including VSF TR-06-4 Parts 6 and 7, is a plus.

• Demonstrated ability to understand the end-to-end video distribution ecosystem and link technical delivery decisions to business outcomes.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills with the capacity to manage competing priorities and make timely, data-driven recommendations.

• Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to clarify complex technical issues for business and executive audiences.

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence teams without direct authority.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and standard project management, documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools.

• Successful completion of relevant background screening requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Broadcast Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or a related field.

• Must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or transfers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Long-term consulting opportunity.

• Professional career advancement opportunities.

• Digital workforce environment.

• Self-direction and autonomy in managing workloads.

• Recognition for employee contributions.

• Friendly and communicative workplace culture.