Director, Digital Production

Title: Director, Digital Production

Location: New York United States

Commutable (Hybrid/Remote/In-Office)

time type

Full time

job requisition id

R0010748

Job Description:

Work Locations: With the exception of some select roles that have in-office requirements, A+E Global Media operates on a flexible model that allows for remote, hybrid or full time in office work (in certain locales).

Office locations include New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Stamford, CT.

Our list of eligible states in which employees may work remotely includes: California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

Division Story

The Marketing division is an in-house, full-service B2C/B2B brand and marketing team of talented, curious, and purpose-driven members with diverse skill sets and backgrounds. We work on interesting and varied projects across multiple disciplines. As an employee of A+E Global Media, you'll be part of a global media and entertainment company that values diversity, representation, flexibility, and kindness. Our commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace has been recognized through multiple accolades: Forbes named us one of America's Best Midsize Employers. Newsweek included us in their lists of America's Most Loved Workplaces for 2021 and 2022, and America's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity in 2023. Inc. recognized A+E Global Media as one of the Best Workplaces of 2025.

Job Description

ROLE

The Director, Digital Production is responsible for the operational leadership, production management, and post-production strategy supporting A+E's Digital Content organization. This role oversees the production of original short-form digital content while providing leadership across post-production operations, finishing, delivery, and technical production workflows.

The Director serves as the primary production and post-production leader for Digital Content, ensuring projects are properly planned, resourced, produced, finished, and delivered in alignment with creative objectives, audience goals, and business priorities. The role leads through Production Managers, Producers, Coordinators, and post-production specialists, establishing clear workflows, accountability structures, and operational standards that enable teams to execute efficiently and consistently.

The Director partners closely with Creative, Editorial, Production Operations, Technology, and senior leadership to maintain scalable post-production infrastructure and delivery workflows that support a growing volume of content.

This role is responsible for identifying and implementing new technologies, workflows, and production solutions that improve efficiency, quality, scalability, and collaboration across the organization. The Director continuously evaluates industry trends, emerging tools, AI-enabled workflows, and technical innovations to ensure A+E remains operationally effective and future-focused.

This position requires a leader who can balance creative needs, technical requirements, operational efficiency, and business priorities while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide operational leadership and strategic oversight for Digital Production and Brand Studio Post, ensuring content is properly planned, produced, finished, and delivered across platforms.
• Lead and performance-manage Production Managers, Asset Manager, Coordinators, and post-production teams, ensuring strong ownership, prioritization, accountability, and talent development across teams.
• Oversee post-production operations, finishing, delivery, asset management, and quality control standards, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and scalability across workflows.
• Serve as the primary production and post-production partner to Creative, Digital Content, Editorial, Production Operations, Technology, and senior leadership, aligning production capabilities with business and content priorities.
• Drive workflow optimization, technical innovation, and adoption of new production technologies, AI-enabled tools, and operational solutions to improve efficiency, collaboration, and scalability.
• Oversee resource planning and production capacity across Digital Production and Brand Studio Post functions.
• Champion process improvement, operational consistency, and cross-functional collaboration to improve visibility, efficiency, and predictability across the organization.

BASIC REQUREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, or a related field preferred.
• 7-10 years of experience in marketing production, with at least 3 years in a senior leadership role. Experience working with content requiring elevated legal, standards, or reputational oversight.
• Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing production and post-production teams through clear expectations, accountability, and effective talent management.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills, including experience partnering with senior leadership, creative teams, editorial teams, and technical partners.
• Demonstrated expertise in production operations, post-production workflows, resource planning, budget management, and operational risk mitigation.
• Deep understanding of digital content production, video finishing, asset management, quality control, and multi-platform delivery requirements.
• Ability to oversee high-volume production environments while balancing competing priorities, deadlines, and business objectives.
• Experience evaluating, implementing, and optimizing production technologies, workflow solutions, and emerging tools-including AI-enabled workflows-to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Strong understanding of video codecs, file formats, metadata, media asset management systems, and distribution workflows across digital, social, FAST, and streaming platforms.
• Experience building and implementing scalable operational processes, delivery standards, and workflow frameworks across cross-functional teams.
• Strong working knowledge of Airtable, media asset management systems, project management tools, and post-production software ecosystems.
• Proven ability to identify operational gaps, recommend technical solutions, and drive continuous improvement across production and post-production functions.
• Solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to anticipate challenges, navigate ambiguity, and address issues proactively rather than reactively.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, PowerPoint, Keynote, project management tools, and AI-powered productivity tools such as ChatGPT for drafting, organizing information, and improving workflow efficiency; Airtable or similar workflow tools strongly preferred.
• Ability to translate creative and business objectives into effective production strategies, operational plans, and scalable execution models.

Compensation

Annual Pay Range: $136,752 - $160,000

Annual Incentive Target: 17.50%

The annual/hourly pay range displayed serves as a good faith estimate of the minimum and maximum base pay range for this role. Compensation for the role will be based on a number of different factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies, location, and experience. A+E offers a competitive total compensation package, which includes healthcare coverage, 401k matching, and a range of other benefits.

A+E Global Media proudly provides equal employment opportunity for all employees and job applicants, and makes employment decisions consistent with this principle. The company's employment actions and decisions - including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, compensation, transfer, layoff, and termination - are made without regard to an employee's race, color, religion, creed, age, national origin, ancestry, sex (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, alienage or citizenship status, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, family and medical leave status, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

A+E Global Media is a joint venture of the Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney Company.

We are proud to be an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans.