Project Manager, Video Distribution
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Sand Cherry AssociatesVideo distribution
United States, working mostly EST hoursContractManager
Salary110,000 - 150,000 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 7+ years of project or program management experience
- Required Skills
- Project ManagementMicrosoft Excel
Requirements
- Have 7+ years of project or program management experience leading complex technology, telecommunications, network, media, or infrastructure initiatives.
- Demonstrate experience managing large cross-functional technical programs from planning through testing, deployment, operational readiness, and handoff.
- Have working knowledge of large-scale video distribution, live and linear video delivery, CDNs, IP-based media transport, or distributed networks.
- Understand terrestrial IP networking, traffic management, capacity planning, network resiliency, monitoring, and optimization concepts.
- Have experience managing integrated project plans, budgets, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, governance, status reporting, and executive communications.
- Have experience developing and coordinating test plans, acceptance criteria, deployment readiness, cutover activities, and operational transition.
- Have experience managing technology vendors and implementation partners.
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Broadcast Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline.
- Be proficient with project management, documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Complete applicable background screening requirements.
- PMP or Agile certification is preferred but not required.
- Familiarity with ARQ, RIST-based transport, packet recovery networks, or Video Services Forum specifications, including VSF TR-06-4 Parts 6 and 7, is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and delivery roadmap for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery program.
- Coordinate cross-functional work across video engineering, network architecture, operations, testing, customer teams, affiliates, vendors, and external technology partners.
- Manage project scope, schedule, budget, RAID logs, decisions, change control, and executive status reporting across the project lifecycle.
- Translate technical work involving CDN architecture, IP media transport, packet recovery, headends, capacity, and network monitoring into actionable plans.
- Coordinate testing for laboratory, peak-demand, packet-loss, recovery, resiliency, weather-event, and operational-readiness scenarios.
- Manage vendor evaluations, procurement dependencies, implementation commitments, and delivery performance.
- Identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues affecting performance, interoperability, timeline, budget, customer readiness, or operational continuity.
- Coordinate deployment planning, customer and affiliate readiness, cutover, implementation validation, and transition to ongoing operations and support.
- Provide decision-oriented updates to senior leaders and technical stakeholders, including progress, blockers, trade-offs, financial impacts, and recommended actions.
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