Director, Program Planning 24/7

You are a strong leader responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive programming strategy for our 24/7 streaming News channel on Vix. You bring exceptional communication, analytical, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to connect across diverse stakeholder groups.

YOUR DAY-DAY: (aka Responsibilities)

• Oversee total functionality for Noticias Univision 24/7, local news, and entertainment channels.
• Lead the end-to-end operations of streaming channels, including content scheduling, playout, format management, and content delivery workflows.
• Develop and implement operational strategies that maximize efficiency.
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Format Editors and Scheduling Coordinators to ensure all technical requirements are properly met, creating the necessary version(s) for internal clients or for distribution.
• Oversee content ingestion into content management platform for our channels and syndication to TVU (streaming platform), metadata management (Title Registry), and quality control processes to maintain consistent, high-quality streaming standards.
• Partner with engineering and product team (TVU) to troubleshoot, document, resolve, and improve system issues affecting streaming operations.
• Provide operational feedback to product (TVU) and engineering team, influencing platform (U/I) enhancements, feature development, and track all customizations.
• Conduct system testing of new update features and graphics in the sandbox and VM updates to discover any operational bugs in software.
• Monitor network and local channels programming changes to update grids and playlist accordingly, including news updates, breaking news, and scheduling of all long-form programming for the channels.
• Monitor media rights of content based on communication with Producers and Content team to avoid rights infringement, including “best of shows” for the weekend.
• Ensuring all social media profiles for 24/7 reflect the channel identity.
• Availability to be on call after hours and weekends as necessary to revise playlist, trigger breaking news or support News team needs.

YOU HAVE: (aka Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum of 5+ years of media industry experience required.
• Strong experience in programming strategy, scheduling, and operations.
• Technical background and/or familiarity with FAST channel streaming platform specifications.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Project management experience in a technical oriented environment.
• Must be detailed and process-oriented with the ability to multitask and maintain a good level of understanding of multiple operational functions.
• Familiarity with workflow concepts: lead times, input/output relations.
• PowerPoint, Outlook, Word, and Excel skills.
• Bi-lingual (Spanish, English) is required.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects under pressure.

OUR BENEFITS

TelevisaUnivision believes that a happy, well-balanced employee is what makes our culture thrive. We offer a wide selection of perks and benefits including PTO; tuition reimbursement; wellness and employee support programs; 401K; and life and other insurance plans. This is all in addition to our comprehensive and competitive health benefits package featuring medical, dental and vision coverage options.

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TelevisaUnivision is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.