Manager, Digital and Broadcast Operations (Overnights)

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

Fox Corporation

Under the FOX banner, we produce and distribute content through some of the world’s leading and most valued brands, including: FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations and Tubi Media Group. We empower a diverse range of creators to imagine and develop culturally significant content, while building an organization that thrives on creative ideas, operational expertise and strategic thinking.

JOB DESCRIPTION

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Overnight Manager, Digital and Broadcast Operations supports operational oversight of streaming and distribution platforms during the overnight window, including FOX One, FOX Sports, FOX Nation, and supporting linear/network feeds.

This role bridges all operational departments at FOX Tech Center during the overnight hours.  

• As an overnight manager ensuring clean handoffs to and from daytime counterparts is a key function. This ensures a seamless 24/7 operation with no drop in productivity during overnight hours.

• Actively lead and quickly escalate/mitigate transmission outages, malfunctions, and general technical issues to support teams. Limiting impact to consumers.

• Manage the floor between multiple teams ensuring a unified operation that works as cohesively as one during overnight hours.

• Oversees inbound contribution and outbound distribution for linear and digital transmission platforms.

You will support the overnight teams between Digital Operations, Media Control Center, and Master Control ensuring stream and signal health, cross-platform readiness, and a strong viewer experience. You’ll partner with Sports, Entertainment, News, Engineering, and Media Operations to support and improve distribution solutions, often during overnight maintenance and deployment windows. 

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Digital Operations Responsibilities

• Serve as primary incident lead for overnight issues, owning communication, escalation, mitigation, and documentation for DOPs. 

• Direct and emphasize “eyes-on-glass” monitoring across live events, linear distribution, backend systems, app clients, APIs, and video performance to operators. 

• Coordinate live event coverage, including pre-flight checks, encoder validations, entitlement sweeps, and post-event validation (DVR, highlights, short-form).

• Ensure the team is conducting regular app sweeps across digital portfolio including FOX One, FOX Sports, and FOX Nation clients to validate functionality and parity.

• Deliver overnight incident and performance reports with trends and follow-ups to daytime leadership. Quickly engage and escalate outages and technical issues with on-call engineering, product, and broadcast partners.

Media Control Center Operations Responsibilities

• Serve as primary incident lead for overnight issues, owning communication, escalation, mitigation, and documentation for MCC and BOPs

• Support inbound contribution and outbound distribution for FOX networks and digital platforms overnight.

• Oversee SCTE, traffic, CDN, and transmission dashboards for signal health, ad markers, and delivery quality.

• Maintain and communicate accurate processes, procedures, runbooks, and operational databases.

• Escalating on-air issues to leadership

Collaboration & Partnerships

• Maintain strong communication with Digital, Broadcast, Media, Engineering, and Network Operations to support incident resolution and planned overnight workflows.

• Partner with Engineering and Product to test new distribution and monitoring solutions.

• Support Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans and execution.

• Collaborate with AdRise and Ad Tech partners to validate ad insertion and resolve ad-related alerts.

• Work closely with Sports, Entertainment, and News teams and provide high-quality operational support.

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