Overview
The Live Event Program & Integrated Project Manager is a cross-functional leader responsible for orchestrating the creative, operational, and technical execution of live broadcast events and related marketing campaigns across network and streaming services. This role works at the intersection of production, engineering, marketing, creative, product, and partnerships to ensure flawless live event delivery and impactful audience engagement. The candidate delivers both operational precision and creative fluency, managing the complete lifecycle of live events—from concept and planning to live execution, post-event content operations, and performance reporting. You’ll partner with stakeholders including Fox, external vendors, and internal teams (Content and Creative Operations, Marketing, Engineering, Content) to ensure events are technically sound, creatively compelling in marketing, and operationally seamless.
Hybrid Location and Duration This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles and requires travel to the Los Angeles office three days per week. This is a temporary position with an estimated duration of six months.
What You'\u2019ll Do
- Lead the end-to-end planning and management of live event programming and serve as the operational counterpart to the Tech PMO who will manage tech workstreams.
- Develop integrated project timelines that align production, technical operations, content and creative campaign deliverables, PR/marketing moments, and partner activations.
- Brief teams into project timelines and lead pre-production, technical, and creative sync meetings.
- Manage budgets, schedules, deliverables, and stakeholder communications across cross-functional teams.
- Facilitate alignment between creative, engineering, marketing, product, and operations teams to ensure consistent execution.
- Actively troubleshoot blockers and escalate as needed.
- Serve as the central point of contact during live event cycles, coordinating from early creative planning to live control room operations and post-event wrap.
- Provide executives and leadership with concise project summaries and real-time event reports.
Live Event & Content Operations
- Oversee content operations workflows for live broadcasts, including rehearsals, ingest, encoding, metadata management, and live-to-VOD delivery. Note: Tech PMO will own rehearsals/QA/runbooks across cross-functional teams.
- Coordinate with third-party production teams for events not produced by FOX to onboard the technical director and serve as the main liaison between the technical director and FOX/Tubi.
- Collaborate with engineering and product teams to design, test, and optimize end-to-end live streaming workflows, from signal contribution to viewer playback.
- Oversee live feed acquisition and signal integration; work with broadcast partners and engineering to deliver the live feed to the streaming platform.
- Design end-to-end signal paths with technical operations to ensure broadcast-quality reliability, synchronization, and redundancy.
- Ensure content meets quality, captioning, and ad-insertion requirements.
- Coordinate communication and execution between control rooms, network operations centers, and digital platform teams during live events.
- Troubleshoot live stream and content delivery issues with NOC, video platform, operations, and QA teams.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, including signal flow diagrams, readiness checklists, and SOPs.
- Support onboarding and testing of new live workflows and interactive features with product and engineering partners.
Creative & Marketing Campaign Management
- Serve as a strategic partner to creative and marketing leads, coordinating assets and information across internal teams to keep workstreams moving forward.
- Own production from brief to delivery across video, digital, promos, key art, trailers, graphics packages, OOH, and social for internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure brand, legal, partner, and platform compliance across all deliverables.
- Oversee cross-functional creative reviews, approvals, and asset delivery workflows.
- Collaborate with marketing and PR teams to ensure consistent messaging and identify risks, with contingency plans as needed.
B2B & Partner Collaboration
- Collaborate with Sales, Biz Dev, and Brand Partnerships to fulfill sponsorship deliverables.
- Flag unsold opportunities for internal use by FOX BUs, anticipating assets and timing.
Cross-Functional Communication & Leadership
- Act as the connective tissue between creative, marketing, communications, engineering, product, operations, and executive teams.
- Translate technical workflows into clear, actionable plans for non-technical stakeholders.
- Lead pre-production, technical, and creative sync meetings; communicate risks and solutions proactively.
- Provide executives with concise project summaries and real-time event reports.
- Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence across all functions.
Your Background
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Broadcast Production, Marketing, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 8+ years of experience managing integrated projects in live production, streaming, or entertainment marketing.
- Proven track record delivering live broadcast events and full-scale marketing campaigns across multiple platforms.
- Deep knowledge of content operations workflows, live stream delivery, and broadcast/OTT technology.
- Extensive experience in network, streaming, or sports broadcast operations.
- Experience managing live feed acquisition and signal workflows between network broadcast and OTT platforms, including encoding, transcoding, and distribution coordination.
- Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams to define requirements and improve live workflows.
- Strong understanding of metadata, CMS, asset management, and media delivery pipelines.
- Effective communication with executives, creatives, engineers, marketers, and external partners; ability to navigate stakeholder feedback.
- Proven ability to balance multiple complex projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive in identifying issues before escalation.
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (Airtable, Jira, Slack, etc.).
- Willingness to work flexible hours, including nights and weekends during live events.
- Technical understanding of video protocols and tools (AWS, Amagi, etc.).
- Familiarity with data analytics platforms.
- Experience producing or marketing tentpole events (sports, entertainment, or culture).
- Strong stakeholder management and presentation skills for internal and partner communications.
- Adept at translating between technical and creative languages to align engineering with storytelling goals.
- Solutions-first mindset and calm, organized approach under pressure.
Note
Pursuant to state and local pay disclosure requirements, compensation is provided in the offer process. This role may be eligible for a range of benefits including medical/dental/vision and applicable leave policies.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.