Technical Producer

Technical Producer – UFC Brasil

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UFC® is the world’s premier mixed martial arts organization (MMA), with more than 700 million fans and approximately 300 million social media followers. The organization produces more than 40 live events annually in some of the most prestigious arenas around the world while broadcasting to over 950 million households across more than 170 countries. UFC’s athlete roster features the world’s best MMA athletes representing more than 80 countries.

The organization’s digital offerings include UFC FIGHT PASS®, one of the world’s leading streaming services for combat sports.

The Technical Producer is responsible for overseeing and supporting the execution of UFC live events in various domestic and international regions including local language productions and on-air related initiatives for the UFC Event Production Division based in the Las Vegas office. This position will supervise the technical aspects of the events including the on-air broadcasts, the in-venue productions, the worldwide transmissions, as well as coordination of event production logistics and assuring quality control of all sub-contracted operations.

In addition, this role will facilitate internal and external live and posted productions, events and functions at UFC Apex, a state-of-the-art production and broadcast facility in Las Vegas.

• Oversee creative development and logistics of production related efforts for event week promotional initiatives, live events, and the execution of on-air and live streaming elements.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams such as Sponsorship, Marketing, Operations, Regulatory and domestic and international television partners.
• Provide creative vision and critiques of various elements for production enhancements to improve fan experiences and quality of the events and broadcasts.
• Work closely with Technical Ops teams to maintain quality control of on-air product and by seeking continual improvements of future broadcasts and productions.
• Work with vendors to identify and secure required resources for various production needs.
• Collaborate with Operations Department to secure transport of production facilities and equipment for domestic and international events and ensure efficient load in, setup and execution of event and broadcast productions.
• Correspond often with event touring video, lighting, sound and comms departments on the functionality and integrity of UFC owned assets, facilitate repairs and ensure annual system maintenance is performed.
• Work with internal colleagues to ensure international licensees are receiving all broadcast and technical documentation in a timely manner and to the appropriate personnel.
• Maintain relationships with international licensees and initiate correspondence with new partners and channels of distribution during their onboarding process.
• Work with distribution and content partners to ensure live transmission is delivered correctly and/or file-based deliveries meets their needs.
• Correspond often with transmission vendor project managers and engineers and ensuring they have the most up to date information on event scope, dates, times, locations and licensee deliverables in order to deliver event transmission plans and subsequent budgets in a timely manner.
• Collaborate with international partners with their onsite production initiatives and facilitate their technical needs in the execution of their broadcasts.
• Supervise unilateral broadcasts and transmissions and ensuring the successful execution of sponsored assets within the production.
• Work with post-production teams to ensure event records are delivered in a timely manner and with the utmost quality.
• Work closely with Production Managers in scheduling control room and studio crews for various internal and external productions at UFC Apex.
• Work with a team of engineers to ensure technical quality and readiness UFC Apex Broadcast Operations Center for various sports, entertainment and corporate…