Technical Project Manager, Platform Infrastructure Versant · Englewood Cliffs · Platform & Infrastructure

VERSANT (Nasdaq: VSNT) is an industry-changing media and entertainment business and home to trusted brands that shape culture, inform audiences, and build lasting connections. It operates across four core markets: political news and opinion, business news and personal finance, golf, and sports and genre entertainment. These markets are served through a powerful portfolio of iconic and innovative brands, including CNBC, MS NOW, USA Network, Golf Channel, Oxygen, E!,

SYFY, and Versant's sports division USA Sports, along with complementary digital assets including Fandango, Rotten Tomatoes, Golf Now and Golf Pass.

The Technical Project Manager, Platform Infrastructure coordinates technology projects across VERSANT’s enterprise infrastructure ecosystem. Working with Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud, Network, Security, Operations, Application, and Portfolio Management, this role drives schedules, tracks dependencies, facilitates cross-functional delivery, and manages risks, decisions, and actions. The role supports cloud and on-premises infrastructure, compute, storage, networking, identity and access, observability, automation, resilience, and modernization, with a focus on operational readiness, service reliability, and timely delivery.

• Manage the execution of platform infrastructure projects from planning through implementation and launch.

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, and action items.

• Coordinate work across Infrastructure Engineering, Cloud, Network, Security, Operations, Application, Corporate Technology, and external technology partners.

• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, readiness reviews, and status checkpoints.

• Track progress against committed timelines and ensure project owners are aligned on deliverables and next steps.

• Escalate schedule, scope, resource, service reliability, or technical risks when appropriate.

• Ensure project decisions, requirements, and delivery commitments are clearly documented.

• Support projects across cloud and on-premises infrastructure, compute, storage, networking, identity and access, observability, automation, and shared platform services.

• Coordinate technical delivery activities across infrastructure domain, application, security, and operations teams.

• Support launch planning for new infrastructure capabilities, migrations, upgrades, lifecycle refreshes, and major releases.

• Coordinate operational readiness activities, including testing, deployment and cutover planning, support coverage, monitoring, documentation, and handoffs to operations teams.

• Support readiness planning for business-critical launches, peak events, disaster recovery exercises, and continuity initiatives.

• Help ensure changes are aligned with established release, change management, security, compliance, and production support processes.

• Serve as a central project coordination point between infrastructure teams and business stakeholders.

• Partner with infrastructure engineering leads and technology service owners to translate requirements and priorities into executable project plans.

• Coordinate dependencies between Platform Infrastructure and adjacent teams such as Cloud, Security, Enterprise Applications, Data, Workplace Technology, Network Operations, and Digital Operations.

• Work with external vendors and technology partners to track deliverables, dependencies, and issue resolution.

• Facilitate timely decisions by ensuring stakeholders have clear visibility into project status, risks, technical constraints, and open questions.

• Partner with the Portfolio Management team to ensure…