Live News Operations Architect

Versant; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

VERSANT Media, based in New York, seeks an Operations Manager to help modernize MS NOW. You will partner with editorial, production, digital and tech teams, improving processes, workflows and tool adoption across live news, control rooms and field operations.

The role requires hands‑on problem solving, AI‑enabled workflow experimentation, and strong stakeholder management across multiple platforms and locations. Occasional nights/weekends possible.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in newsroom operations, television production, digital media, production management, live events, product operations, or a related field.
• Strong understanding of how live news and media organizations operate.
• Experience working in fast‑moving editorial, production, control room, digital, or field environments.
• Demonstrated ability to identify problems, simplify complicated workflows, and turn ideas into practical solutions.
• Hands‑on interest in AI tools, including Codex or similar AI‑assisted development platforms, and a willingness to use them regularly to prototype solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a dedicated operational partner to MS NOW editorial, production, digital, and technical teams.
• Work directly with journalists, producers, editors, control rooms, field teams, and leadership to understand how work actually gets done and where it can be improved.
• Identify recurring pain points, outdated workflows, manual processes, and opportunities to make teams faster, smarter, and more creative.
• Translate between editorial needs and technical teams.
• Build strong relationships across editorial, production, engineering, product, facilities, and technology teams.
• Develop simple documentation, playbooks, training, and onboarding materials so successful workflows can scale.
• Help teams adopt new tools and ways of working, recognizing that successful transformation depends on people, not just technology.
• Create lightweight applications, dashboards, automations, workflow tools, and proof‑of‑concepts that allow teams to test ideas quickly before committing to larger development efforts.
• Experiment with AI‑enabled workflows across areas such as news gathering, production, transcription, metadata, research, clipping, publishing, planning, and live television.
• Support the day‑to‑day operational needs of MS NOW, including live productions, breaking news, digital video, remote productions, special coverage, field operations, and major events.

Skills

Newsroom ops

Live media

Editorial collaboration

AI prototyping

Stakeholder management

Tools

iNews

Avid

Adobe CC

LiveU

MAM platforms

CMS platforms

Job description

VERSANT Media, based in New York, seeks an Operations Manager to help modernize MS NOW. You will partner with editorial, production, digital and tech teams, improving processes, workflows and tool adoption across live news, control rooms and field operations.

The role requires hands‑on problem solving, AI‑enabled workflow experimentation, and strong stakeholder management across multiple platforms and locations. Occasional nights/weekends possible.