Technology & Integration Director, Local Media

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The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week._________________Position Summary The Technology Integration Director Local Media leads the technical design and execution of innovative broadcast workflows and production solutions supporting NBA and WNBA Local Media. This role is about what is both new and next, whether that be in front of the camera, on camera and in the production trucks and control rooms.

Reporting to the Technology Innovation Lead, this role translates strategic content and production vision into scalable technical requirements, implementation roadmaps, and operational workflows across live event and studio environments.

Serving as a senior technical subject matter expert within Local Media, the Technical Director takes a hands-on role in designing, evaluating, testing, and implementing new broadcast technologies, infrastructure, and deployments. This individual evaluates technical feasibility, system dependencies, operational readiness, implementation risks, and cost considerations, and provides recommendations to determine how and when new production capabilities can be deployed  role works closely with Production, Content Planning, Broadcast Strategy and the broader GPM Media Operations & Technology organization, as well as Local Media and GPM Broadcast Engineering teams, Production Operations, and external broadcast technology vendors.

The Technical Director bridges production vision and technical execution, ensuring innovative concepts are translated into reliable, supportable, and cost-effective technical solutions for demanding live broadcast environments.

Major Responsibilities Broadcast Technology Design & Implementation Lead the technical design, architecture, and implementation of next-generation content creation, new broadcast workflows and production capabilities across Local Media broadcast environments.

Translate priorities established by the Broadcast Technology Innovation Lead’s strategic vision and production roadmap into technical requirements, solution designs, implementation plans, and deployment milestones.

Serve as a hands-on technical expert in the design and buildout of local broadcast infrastructure, systems, integrations, and workflows, working in coordination with the engineering and operational teams that own the production environment.

Evaluate existing content and production environments to identify opportunities to modernize infrastructure, simplify workflows, improve reliability, increase scalability, enhance production capabilities, and develop the next new innovative content.

Design and operationalize solutions incorporating cloud and IP-based production, REMI workflows, automation, AI-enabled production, advanced graphics, data integration, virtual production, and other emerging broadcast capabilities.

Develop technical requirements, system diagrams, workflow documentation, test plans, and operational specifications necessary to move solutions from concept through production deployment.

Lead proofs of concept, pilots, testing, and technical validation; of new technologies, ensuring solutions meet production, engineering, security, reliability, and operational requirements.

Partner with Broadcast Engineering and Production Operations to transition approved capabilities into stable production environments with appropriate monitoring, support, redundancy, documentation, and operational readiness.

Technical Planning & Evaluation Develop technical roadmaps by translating longer-term production strategies into sequenced technology initiatives that outline infrastructure defining requirements, dependencies, sequencing, and implementation plans. Assess the technical feasibility and operational impact of proposed content and production innovations, proactively identifying architecture constraints, integration requirements, risks, dependencies, and readiness considerations.

Develop technical cost estimates and resource requirements for proposed solutions, including Cap Ex, OpEx, vendor, infrastructure, connectivity, and ongoing support considerations.

Support the Technology Innovation Lead in evaluating investment opportunities and business cases by providing technical inputs into cost, implementation, complexity, scalability, expected benefits, and ROI.Identify opportunities to use shared GPM infrastructure, platforms, capabilities, and vendor relationships within established technical and operational standards.

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