Hiring: Technical Manager, Local Media Company: National Basketball Association (NBA) Location: Secaucus, NJ Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:16:51 Employment Type: On-site Target Skills & Keywords : Microsoft Office, Project Management, Root Cause Analysis, Stakeholder Management About the job Experience: •8–10+ years of progressively responsible experience supporting live broadcast production, production technology, broadcast engineering, or technical operations. •Demonstrated leadership experience managing technical personnel supporting live sports broadcasts or large-scale broadcast operations. •Demonstrated experience establishing operational standards, service delivery models, and technical governance processes. •Professional sports or major live event production experience strongly preferred. •Expert knowledge of live broadcast production systems, workflows, and end-to-end signal flow. Required Skills: •Operational Leadership •Lead the League's Technical Manager function, providing leadership, coaching, scheduling, onboarding, performance feedback, and operational oversight for freelance Technical Managers supporting NBA Local Media productions. •Serve as the primary point of contact for the Local Media production operation working with the GPM Broadcast Engineering team on the HSAN connectivity platform, ensuring reliable contribution, routing, monitoring, transmission, and distribution of live NBA game broadcasts. •Own, in conjunction with the NBA with Broadcast Engineering & Operations team, the operational performance, service delivery, and reliability of production technology services supporting League-produced broadcasts. •Establish operational priorities, technical standards, service levels, governance processes, and best practices supporting production technology operations across League-supported productions. •Oversee day-to-day production technology operations between NBA arenas, NBA Secaucus, Broadcast Engineering & Operations, production operations vendors, distribution, and participating NBA teams. •Lead operational readiness planning for all supported productions, ensuring technical infrastructure, connectivity, transmission paths, communications systems, and production technologies are fully prepared prior to each event. •Partner with the Vice President, Production Technology in developing the long-term operational roadmap for production technology services, ensuring operational readiness, scalability, and alignment with evolving business priorities. Qualifications: •Coordinate production technology, transmission, signal acquisition, routing, monitoring, master control, and broadcast distribution workflows supporting live NBA game productions. •Bachelor's degree in Broadcast Engineering, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Media Production, or a related field preferred. Compensation: •$130,000 - $165,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!