Director, Video Engineering

Job Description

Position Summary:

Live content through sports and other events are rapidly shifting to OTT delivery and is an essential part of WBD's digital offerings. WBD strives to build a best-in-class live streaming platform to support this key aspect of our products, including Max, Discovery+, March Madness Live, CNN Digital, EuroSport, and other iconic brands.

As Director of our Live Experiences team, you will lead the team responsible for partnering with our live production and broadcast partners to deliver the best possible live quality across our digital products, globally. In this role, you will be responsible for defining and enhancing the paths by which live content reaches our digital platform, managing configurations for live events and channels, and coordinating teams across the company to deliver next-gen live experiences with technologies like HDR, Immersive Audio, AI-based Accessibility, and more.

Role and Responsibilities
• Lead the Live Experiences team within WBD's Direct to Consumer Organization.
• Hire, manage, and coach the Live Experiences team, consisting of Video Engineers who design, implement, and operate multiple aspects of our live platform, including the flow of live video sources, the configuration of live linear and event channels, and the rollout of new live streaming technologies.
• Design, implement, operate, maintain, and enhance the video content coming into WBD's direct-to-consumer live streaming platform.
• Collaborate across teams, organizations, and companies to define and deliver next-gen live experiences across our digital products.
• Act as a liaison across all parts of the Warner Bros. Discovery business to accelerate live and linear shifts to OTT through Max and other DTC products.
• Initiate and oversee the execution of research and innovation efforts focused on improving live experiences.

Required Experience
• 10+ years of experience in live production workflows (specifically sports) from truck to consumer, and 5+ years in a leadership role.
• Expertise in video technologies including UHD, HDR video, immersive audio, and video streaming
• Proven expertise in developing cloud-based live video workflows
• Deep understanding of video networking technologies including fiber networks, SMPTE 2110 networks, MPEG-TS, RTP Multicast, Zixi, SRT, and RTMP.
• Ability to self-start and promote efforts internally and externally.
• Proven track record of success in video and live streaming.
• Good and varied knowledge of digital media and postproduction workflows.
• Expert understanding and hands on experience with leading encoding and packaging vendors
• Experience in producing sport both for world feed and broadcast presentation coverage.
• Communications skills needed for keeping Max and WBD leadership informed about emerging trends and how it may impact current and future planning related to live streaming.
• Willingness to work off hours to support critical global events.

Championing Inclusion at WBD
Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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