Technical Manager, Local Media

WORK OPTION:
In Office

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The Technical Manager, Local Media serves as the senior operational leader responsible for the execution, performance, and continuous improvement of production technology services supporting the NBA’s Local Media ecosystem. Reporting to the Vice President, Production Technology, this role leads the day-to-day technical operations supporting Local Media league program facilitated game broadcasts, ensuring reliable, scalable, and consistent execution across NBA arenas and NBA Secaucus.

Serving as an operational owner of the technical production service function for the Local Media team, the Technical Manager oversees production technology operations supporting broadcast contribution, routing, monitoring, transmission, master control, HSAN connectivity, and distribution workflows. This position provides leadership to freelance Technical Managers, establishes operational standards and best practices, drives continuous improvement initiatives, and partners closely with GPM Broadcast Engineering & Broadcast Operations, technical production operations vendors, NBA teams, and other cross‑functional stakeholders to deliver best‑in‑class live broadcasts.

The Technical Manager serves as the primary technical liaison between engineering, production, and broadcast operations, ensuring technical readiness, operational excellence, and seamless execution across all League‑supported productions. This role partners closely with the Vice President, Production Technology to translate strategic technology initiatives into scalable operational capabilities while continuously improving the League’s production technology service model.

This position is based in the NBA Secaucus office and requires regular in‑office attendance five (5) days per week. This role supports live NBA game productions and League events and requires flexibility to work evenings, weekends, holidays, and extended hours in accordance with the NBA game schedule and other League programming. Occasional domestic travel to NBA arenas and other League event locations may be required.

• Lead the League’s Technical Manager function, providing leadership, coaching, scheduling, onboarding, performance feedback, and operational oversight for freelance Technical Managers supporting NBA Local Media productions.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Local Media production operation working with the GPM Broadcast Engineering team on the HSAN connectivity platform, ensuring reliable contribution, routing, monitoring, transmission, and distribution of live NBA game broadcasts.
• Own, in conjunction with the NBA with Broadcast Engineering & Operations team, the operational performance, service delivery, and reliability of production technology services supporting League‑produced broadcasts.
• Establish operational priorities, technical standards, service levels, governance processes, and best practices supporting production technology operations across League‑supported productions.
• Oversee day‑to‑day production technology operations between NBA arenas, NBA Secaucus, Broadcast Engineering & Operations, production operations vendors, distribution, and participating NBA teams.
• Lead operational readiness planning for all supported productions, ensuring technical infrastructure, connectivity, transmission paths, communications systems, and production technologies are fully prepared prior to each event.
• Partner with the Vice President, Production Technology in developing the long‑term operational roadmap for production technology services, ensuring operational readiness, scalability, and alignment with evolving business priorities.
• Support implementation and operational transition of new production technologies, workflows, and infrastructure initiatives developed by Production Technology leadership.

• Coordinate production technology, transmission, signal acquisition, routing, monitoring, master control, and broadcast distribution workflows supporting live NBA game productions.
• Serve as a primary technical escalation point during live productions,…