Manager, Media Engineering

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** Your New Role:*
* We are seeking a Media Engineering Manager to lead the technical evolution of     
** Keystone**   , an internal production technology platform that serves as the front door to the content supply chain. Keystone supports productions from   initial   intake through final asset delivery, connecting production teams, vendors, QC, localization, media operations, and internal distribution systems.

This role sits at the intersection of media engineering, software development, post-production operations, and platform delivery. The Media Engineering Manager will   be responsible for   leading a development team, designing scalable media workflow solutions, supporting intersystem integrations, and ensuring Keystone continues to meet the needs of a growing portfolio of shows, users, vendors, and operational workflows.

This role requires a hybrid skill set: deep AV media engineering   expertise , traditional hands-on-keyboard software development capability, and the ability to lead engineers in a complex, business-critical production environment.

This is not a traditional enterprise application role. Keystone is a complex, operationally critical platform used daily by internal and external teams working under tight production schedules, high asset volume, and strict delivery requirements.

** Responsibilities:*
* ** Engineering Leadership & Team Management*
* +  Lead, mentor, and manage a team of software engineers, media engineers, and technical contributors supporting Keystone

+  Provide technical direction across platform architecture, workflow automation, integrations, and media pipeline execution

+  Balance hands-on engineering contribution with people leadership, delivery management, and technical oversight

+  Partner with product, operations, and architecture leadership to translate business and workflow needs into scalable technical solutions

+  Establish engineering standards, development practices, documentation expectations, and delivery discipline across the Keystone team

** Media Workflow & Platform Expertise*
* +  Develop and   maintain   a deep understanding of end-to-end production, post-production, and   distribution pipelines

+  Design   multi-functional   media workflows involving data I/O, transcod e , QC, localization,   metadata enrichment,   packaging, and final delivery

+  Identify   workflow gaps, technical bottlenecks, and manual workarounds that can be improved through automation, integration, or platform enhancement

+  Bring practical media engineering judgment to decisions involving file formats, metadata, essence, package structures, and downstream delivery requirements

** Systems, Integrations & Automation*
* +  Lead technical integration efforts across   AWS,   SDVI Rally, MAM systems, internal media platforms, vendor systems, QC tools, transcode services, localization workflows, and delivery endpoints

+  Design and support intersystem integrations using APIs, event-driven workflows, scripting, data mapping, and middleware patterns

+  Partner with architecture and infrastructure teams to ensure Keystone integrates reliably with broader enterprise systems

+  Troubleshoot complex issues across connected systems, including failed jobs, missing metadata, file movement errors, transcode failures, QC exceptions, and delivery blockers

+  Improve workflow observability through logging, monitoring, status tracking, reporting, and operational dashboards

** Hands-On Engineering & Delivery*
* +  Contribute directly to technical design, code review, scripting, integration logic, and platform development as needed

+  Help decompose complex technical and operational needs into actionable engineering work

+  Support backlog refinement, sprint planning, solution design, release planning,…