Director, Broadcast Engineering

The role

Lead a team of broadcast engineers, technicians, and vendor partners. Own the strategy, operation, and modernization of broadcast systems that support live production, studios, transmission, post-production, and digital media.

What you will do

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a multidisciplinary broadcast engineering team.
• Set team priorities, assign resources, manage schedules, and conduct performance reviews.
• Oversee design, deployment, maintenance, and lifecycle of studios, control rooms, routing, audio, video, transmission, and post-production systems.
• Ensure reliable live broadcast operations through monitoring, incident response, disaster recovery, and root-cause analysis.
• Lead the move from SDI and hardware workflows toward IP-based, virtualized, and cloud-connected media infrastructure.
• Lead capital and operational engineering projects from concept through handoff.
• Develop budgets, business cases, technical requirements, and implementation schedules.
• Manage vendor relationships, integrators, managed service providers, and service contracts.
• Provide senior technical leadership during live events, critical outages, and major launches.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for executive and non-technical stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, broadcast engineering, computer science, IT, media technology, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in broadcast engineering, media systems engineering, technical operations, or live production technology.
• 5+ years of people-management experience leading engineers, technicians, managers, project teams, vendors, or managed service providers.
• Demonstrated experience managing live production environments where reliability and incident response are critical.
• Strong knowledge of broadcast signal flow, studio systems, control rooms, routing, replay, graphics, transmission, post-production, and media asset workflows.
• Working knowledge of IP media standards, including SMPTE ST 2110, SMPTE 2022-6/7, PTP/IEEE 1588, NMOS IS-04/IS-05, AES67, Dante, multicast networking, QoS, and media-over-IP troubleshooting.
• Experience with cloud, virtualization, digital media, or software-defined infrastructure, including hybrid workflows.
• Familiarity with compute, storage, networking, cybersecurity, automation, APIs, monitoring, and DevOps-style support as applied to media systems.
• Proven ability to lead technical strategy, capital projects, budgets, vendor negotiations, RFPs, and lifecycle management.
• Excellent communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to work flexible hours to support live events, urgent issues, launches, and business-critical operations.

Nice to have

• Experience with ST 2110 facility design, IP fabric architecture, timing design, and vendor interoperability testing.
• Experience with media supply chain platforms, MAM/DAM systems, storage orchestration, transcoding, cloud playout, and streaming workflows.
• Experience leading engineering teams through organizational change, facility transformation, SDI-to-IP migration, or cloud adoption.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted media workflows, automation, quality control, captioning, accessibility, and digital content platforms.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits offerings (see NFL Benefits).

Before you apply

• In-person onsite work is required; remote and hybrid options are not offered.
• No relocation assistance will be provided.
• The posted pay range is one the NFL believes it might pay; it expects to hire near the middle of the range.

About the company

The NFL is committed to an inclusive work environment and equal employment opportunity. Its core values are respect, integrity, team responsibility, and resiliency.