Media Operations Technician

Versant in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, is home to a Media Operations Center team that is a group of innovative and highly skilled technicians that oversee the inbound and outbound digital delivery for the Versant Networks. The Media Operations Center team is responsible for ensuring content is sourced, prepared, and fulfilled to outlets such as cable networks, online destinations, and more. In this role you will be part of a 24x7 driven and highly motivated team that supports the fulfillment of media content to Versant’s distribution outlets. As a Media Operations Technician, you will be responsible for a hybrid skillset that encompasses all aspects of the digital supply chain: source content QC, encode, edit, and delivery to clients. This role requires focus, attention to detail, communication skills and determination to execute and distribute assets properly and in a timely manner while maintaining the department goal of 99.999% reliability and availability. Responsibilities: Maintain on-air continuity by completing all content needed for broadcast inclusive of long-form, short-from, promos, commercials, and graphics according to Versant’s automated material management system knows as the “Make-list”. Learn and perform all technical processes and technologies in the Media Operations Center as well as additional processes and technologies created in the future. Learn and perform all Media Asset Coordinator roles and responsibilities. Support Versant’s Program Operations, On-Air Marketing and Programming departments with all their ingest, transcode and QC needs. Perform metadata verification and creation on inbound Versant content to prepare it for distribution to broadcast networks. Learn and verify technical specifications of inbound and outbound content to confirm inbound content is meeting the specifications of Versant as well as outbound content meeting the specifications of our clients. Able to perform real time, long-form, high resolution, quality control screening of Versant content to identify legal, technical, and even creative issues that will be communicated back to providers and ensure all technical aspects are compiled to meet FCC/Versant specifications.