Director, Post Production Operations & Support at The New York Times · LumiJobs

Responsibilities

The New York Times is continuing to expand its video journalism, identifying compelling video and audio stories across the depth and breadth of our report. We showcase the expertise of Times journalists on-camera, share urgent news updates, produce on-the-ground reporting, pioneering Visual Investigations, and Shows. We are looking for a Director of Post Production Operations and Support to oversee the video post-production workflows, systems, and technical support that enable reliable newsroom video and show production at scale. This role sits within the newsroom's Media Operations team, works across all field and studio production, and manages a team of post production and technical specialists charged with developing, implementing, and supporting best-in-class workflows for our video journalism.
This is an in-office position based in New York and includes regular attendance in the office four days each week.
Lead the Post Production Operations and Support function supporting all newsroom shows and video journalism produced globally (current video operations in New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Seoul)
Design, implement, and continuously optimize end-to-end post-production workflows to support fast-turnaround breaking news, Shows, Reporter Video, Field production, and long-form Visual InvestigationsWorkflows including but not limited to: ingest, cloud asset management, cloud edit, captioning and graphics, and finishing/publishing
Lead the ongoing transition to cloud and automated workflows to minimize friction for studio and remote production
Manage, develop, and grow the global post production operations and support team, including career development, performance management, hiring and training
Partner with the Director of Studios on production readiness and the integration of studio systems with post-production and publishing workflows
Partner with the IT and Networking functions to manage and scale post-production infrastructure, ranging from storage to high-speed file transfer systems
Partner with the Audio Engineering team to unify holistic Audio and Video post workflows
Oversee current and future vendor relationships across video and multimedia software, cloud services, media asset management and related services, ensuring production teams have best-in-class tools at their disposal
Oversee the implementation and continuous customization of our MAM, to ensure our teams have workflows that best suit their needs, and that all video assets are properly tagged, searchable, and archived
Establish, socialize, and maintain quality control standards for color, and other disciplines central to publishing video assets

Director, Post Production Operations & Support

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The New York Times

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