Director of IT

Hearst Television is seeking a Director of IT Operations to lead enterprise technology operations supporting approximately 30 television stations and business locations. This role is responsible for delivering reliable, secure, and cost-effective infrastructure while driving operational excellence across a geographically distributed organization.

Reporting to the Vice President of Information Technology, the Director provides strategic and technical leadership through collaboration with station leadership, Shared Services, Corporate IT, and external technology partners. Success in this role requires strong technical expertise, sound business judgement, and the ability to influence teams and stakeholders without direct reporting authority.

this is an in-person position that requires periodic travel to Hearst Television locations and participation in an on-call rotation supporting critical technology operations.

Lead enterprise IT operations that enable broadcast, business, and digital teams to operate securely, efficiently, and reliably. You'll establish technology standards, modernize infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity, and leverage automation and AI-enabled tools to improve operational performance while partnering across the organization to support business priorities.

Hearst Television is investing in AI-enabled technologies that improve operational efficiency, monitoring, documentation, and decision-making. You'll evaluate and implement AI capabilities responsibly while partnering with Shared Services Security to ensure appropriate governance, data protection, and risk management.

Lead day-to-day IT operations across approximately 30 Hearst Television locations, ensuring consistent service delivery and infrastructure reliability.

Establish and maintain enterprise standards for infrastructure, operational support, system availability, and technology lifecycle management.

Direct the design, deployment, and modernization of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, including virtualization, compute, storage, and backup platforms.

Develop long-term infrastructure roadmaps supporting scalability, resiliency, disaster recovery, and business continuity.

Partner with Shared Services Security to strengthen identity management, endpoint security, vulnerability management, privileged access, and multifactor authentication.

Guide secure infrastructure architecture, firewall standards, network segmentation, remote access, and incident response practices.

Oversee enterprise networking including switching, routing, wireless infrastructure, connectivity, monitoring, and performance optimization.

Establish standards for endpoint management, operating system deployment, patch management, software distribution, and device lifecycle planning.

Lead technical incident response, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and executive communications during operational events.

Develop operational metrics, documentation, runbooks, escalation procedures, and service performance reporting to improve consistency across all locations.

Manage departmental budgets, forecasting, purchasing priorities, licensing, and technology investment planning.

Build strategic partnerships with technology vendors while overseeing contracts, renewals, service levels, and performance management.

Lead infrastructure modernization initiatives including virtualization upgrades, cloud adoption, and enterprise technology transformation projects.

Evaluate emerging technologies, automation opportunities, and…