Live News Operations Leader: Modernize & Scale

Versant Media, LLC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VERSANT Media, based in New York, is seeking a hands-on Operations Manager to help build the future of MS NOW. This role blends live news production with modern workflow design, partnering with editorial, production, engineering and product teams to scale high-impact operations.

You’ll solve live production challenges, prototype newsroom tools (including AI-enabled workflows), and drive adoption of efficient processes while traveling to MS NOW and Versant locations as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in newsroom operations, television production, digital media, production management, live events, or related field.
• Experience in fast-moving editorial, production, control room, digital, or field environments.
• Hands-on interest in AI tools and willingness to prototype solutions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a dedicated operational partner to MS NOW editorial, production, digital, and technical teams.
• Work with journalists, producers, editors, control rooms, field teams, and leadership to understand workflows and improvements.
• Identify recurring pain points, outdated workflows, and opportunities to make teams faster and more creative.
• Translate between editorial needs and technical teams.
• Build relationships across editorial, production, engineering, product, facilities, and technology teams.
• Develop simple documentation, playbooks, training, and onboarding materials to scale workflows.
• Help teams adopt new tools and ways of working and focus on people, not just technology.
• Create lightweight applications, dashboards, automations, and proof-of-concepts for rapid testing.
• Experiment with AI-enabled workflows across news gathering, production, transcription, metadata, and planning.
• Support day-to-day operations including live productions, breaking news, and major events.
• Help modernize workflows across linear TV, streaming, digital, and platforms.
• Test new technologies in production environments and gather feedback.
• Travel to MS NOW and Versant locations as needed.

Skills

Newspaper/TV operations

Editorial collaboration

AI tooling interest

Prototyping tools

Stakeholder communication

Tools

iNews

Avid

Adobe Creative Cloud

LiveU

MAM platforms

CMS platforms

Job description

VERSANT Media, based in New York, is seeking a hands-on Operations Manager to help build the future of MS NOW. This role blends live news production with modern workflow design, partnering with editorial, production, engineering and product teams to scale high-impact operations.

You’ll solve live production challenges, prototype newsroom tools (including AI-enabled workflows), and drive adoption of efficient processes while traveling to MS NOW and Versant locations as needed.