Description

DC News Now is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Production Manager to oversee all aspects of live and recorded production across news, sports, and lifestyle programming.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who thrives in a fast-paced, automated environment, demonstrates technical expertise, fosters teamwork, and ensures consistent, high-quality production values. This position plays a key role in newsroom operations, serving as a bridge between editorial and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Oversee all aspects of daily news, sports, and lifestyle show production, ensuring flawless execution and consistent quality standards.
2. Manage pre-production planning, live control room execution, and post-production workflows across multiple platforms, including manual PCR, automated PCR and OBS studio and deliver on linear, digital and streaming channels.
3. Supervise and set SOP for control room operations including switching, automation (Ross Overdrive), graphics, audio, and camera robotics.
4. Oversee feed room operations, ensuring proper ingest, routing, and recording of live feeds, satellite sources, remote content, and network material using BitCentral and Florical systems.
5. Coordinate media management, archiving, and playback operations through BitCentral and Florical automation systems.
6. Manage daily editing assignments and workflow, ensuring editors meet deadlines while maintaining technical quality and consistency for air and digital content.
7. Collaborate with producers and digital teams to ensure all content is prepared, delivered, and distributed accurately across broadcast and digital platforms.
8. Hire, train, lead, schedule, and review a diverse team including directors, associate directors, production technicians, editors, and feed room operators.
9. Provide regular coaching, feedback, and training to strengthen team performance and technical proficiency.
10. Foster a positive, solutions-oriented culture that emphasizes teamwork, accountability, and communication.
11. Serve as the front-line technical manager for production-related issues, troubleshooting control room, editing, and routing problems before escalating to Engineering.
12. Coordinate with Engineering on system maintenance, equipment upgrades, and troubleshooting for automation, playback, and routing infrastructure.
13. Maintain proficiency in Ross Overdrive, OBS, BitCentral, Florical, Adobe Premiere Pro, and ENPS systems.
14. Stay current on industry trends and emerging broadcast technologies to keep DC News Now at the forefront of innovation.
15. Work closely with News, Digital, Engineering, Sales, and Marketing, teams to execute live events, town halls, specials, and sponsored content.
16. Coordinate breaking news and live event logistics between the field, feed room, and control room.
17. Respond effectively to live control room challenges, technical issues, and breaking news situations with calm and clear leadership.
18. Implement contingency plans to minimize disruption to broadcasts.
19. Other tasks and duties as assigned by management.
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Qualifications
1. Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Production, Communications, or related field.
2. Minimum 5 years of experience in television production, with at least 2 years in a leadership or management role.
3. Strong understanding of live news and lifestyle production workflows.
4. Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
5. Proficiency in Ross Overdrive, BitCentral, Florical, Adobe Premiere Pro, and ENPS.
6. Excellent problem-solving, communication, and organizational skills.
7. Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, holidays, and during breaking news events.

Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $120,000.00 based upon experience

Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, a 401(k) with company matching contributions, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.

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