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NewsNation - Executive Director of Technology

Nexstar Media Group, Inc.642 open roles

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$200,000 – $250,000 a year
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NY, New York
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NewsNation is seeking an experienced Executive Director of Technology to lead broadcast and production technology, technical infrastructure, and technology teams across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, this onsite Midtown Manhattan role directly leads the New York and Washington, D.C. teams and provides dotted-line functional leadership to the Chicago team.

The Executive Director will establish a unified technology strategy across NewsNation while maintaining hands-on oversight of the New York technology operation. The role is responsible for technical reliability, team development, infrastructure planning, and ensuring Technology has the skills and readiness required to support a fast-paced national news operation.

Key Responsibilities

· Lead NewsNation's technology strategy and technical operations across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.

· Directly lead the New York and Washington technology teams, provide functional leadership to the Chicago team, and maintain hands-on oversight of New York team development, technical readiness, troubleshooting capabilities, and day-to-day performance.

· Serve as the senior technology partner to the Vice President, Operations and Operations leadership.

· Establish network-wide standards and priorities for system reliability, technology support, maintenance, documentation, disaster recovery, and technical projects.

· Ensure technical issues have clear ownership, escalation, communication, and follow-through; drive recurring problems toward sustainable resolution; and lead the technology response during major incidents, breaking news, special events, and other critical production periods.

· Lead technical planning for studios, control rooms, signal paths, transmission, remote production, and supporting broadcast infrastructure, advancing appropriate cross-market standardization in technology practices, ownership, documentation, and resilience.

· Develop a network technology roadmap identifying technical risks, lifecycle requirements, infrastructure needs, and investment priorities, and partner with Operations on capital planning, facility projects, system upgrades, and technology investments.

· Build and maintain structured training, cross-training, mentorship, and professional-development programs, including a skills and certification roadmap and regular opportunities for technology staff to maintain and expand relevant credentials.

· Strengthen troubleshooting and organizational capability through technical training, knowledge-sharing, documentation, practical development, and cross-training; identify skill gaps and single points of knowledge; and broaden technical capabilities across the organization.

· Coordinate with NewsNation teams, corporate technology resources, vendors, and other technical partners.

· Lead represented and non-represented employees while working within applicable collective bargaining agreements and partnering with Human Resources and Labor Relations as appropriate.

Required Qualifications

· Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in broadcast technology, broadcast technology, television technology, live-production technology, or a closely related technical field.

· Demonstrated experience leading technology teams and technical operations in a complex live television or media environment.

· Strong knowledge of studios, control rooms, broadcast production systems, signal flow, transmission, remote production, and supporting technical infrastructure.

· Experience leading major technical projects, facility upgrades, infrastructure modernization, and system implementations.

· Experience leading technical teams across multiple facilities or geographically distributed operations.

· Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent through training, cross-training, mentorship, knowledge transfer, and skills development.

· Experience working with represented and non-represented employees.

· Ability to lead effectively through direct-report, dotted-line, and shared-resource organizational structures.

· Strong troubleshooting, project-management, vendor-management, organizational, and communication skills.

· Ability to communicate complex technical issues, risks, and recommendations clearly to operational and executive stakeholders.

· Ability to provide effective leadership in a fast-paced, 24/7 live-news environment.

Preferred Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in technology, broadcast technology, computer science, information technology, or a related field preferred, not required.

· Relevant technical certifications or specialized training.

· National network or 24/7 news technology experience.

· Experience with IP-based broadcast infrastructure, remote production, streaming, and digital production technologies.

· Experience developing multi-year technical and capital plans.

Schedule and Travel

This is an onsite position based in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Regular travel to Chicago and Washington, D.C. is expected, along with other travel as necessary to support NewsNation operations, projects, facilities, training, vendors, and special productions.

The position requires flexibility outside normal business hours during breaking news, special events, major technical projects, system outages, and other critical operational situations.

Compensation

$200,000-$250,000 annually, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Benefits Statement

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.

About NewsNation

NewsNation is a national news network owned by Nexstar Media Group and dedicated to delivering fact-based, unbiased journalism for all Americans. Reaching audiences nationwide across cable, digital, and mobile platforms, NewsNation combines a national newsroom with the strength of more than 6,000 journalists in 110 local newsrooms across the country.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NewsNation and Nexstar Media Group are equal opportunity employers committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law.

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