PEP, Digital Operator; Freelance

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 Opportunity

Versant is looking for a freelance/PEP Digital Operator to support the technical execution of digital productions, including live streams, podcasts, remote recordings, and other digital-first content. This role is based in New York, NY and requires on-site work. (Weekend availability required)

In this role, you’ll help ensure that productions are set up, monitored, recorded, streamed, and delivered with consistency and technical precision. You’ll work closely with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and other partners to support smooth execution in a fast-paced production environment.

Why This Role Matters: Versant is continuing to expand its digital production capabilities across live, social, podcast, and emerging digital formats. This role helps power that growth by supporting reliable production workflows, resolving technical issues quickly, and helping teams create high-quality digital content across platforms.

What You'll Do

• Operate and support live digital productions using vMix and related production technologies.
• Support remote recordings and podcast production workflows using Riverside, including setup, monitoring, quality control, and post-production handoff.
• Assist with live streaming, switching, graphics integration, recording, and monitoring for digital-first productions.
• Prepare studios, equipment, and remote production environments ahead of recordings, live events, and digital shoots.
• Troubleshoot technical issues quickly during live and recorded productions to help maintain production quality and minimize disruption.
• Partner with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and cross-functional teams to support seamless execution and identify opportunities to improve workflows.

What You Bring

• 2+ years of experience supporting live, digital, or media production environments.
• Experience using Riverside for remote recording, podcast production, or similar digital production workflows.
• Familiarity with podcast production workflows, live streaming, and digital-first production environments.
• Strong understanding of audio and video signal flow.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues under deadline pressure.
• Strong communication, organization, and follow-through.
• Availability to work on-site in New York, NY, including weekends as needed.

You’ll also bring the behaviors that reflect how we work at Versant:

• Trust: You take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments, and handle live production responsibilities with care.
• Teamwork: You collaborate effectively with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and other partners to deliver a strong final product.
• Transparency: You communicate clearly about production needs, technical issues, risks, and workflow updates.
• Agility: You stay calm under pressure, adapt quickly during live or fast-moving productions, and solve problems in real time.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You are curious about new tools, formats, and workflows, and you look for ways to help strengthen Versant’s digital production capabilities.

Bonus points for experience with live streams for You Tube, social platforms, or OTT distribution; streaming encoders; production switchers; cloud-based production tools;
Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Premiere Pro and Audition; IP-based production workflows such as NDI or SRT; and digital content distribution or social publishing workflows.

Why You’ll Love It Here

You’ll help support a growing digital production operation at Versant, working across live streaming, podcasts, remote recordings,…