Transmission Coordinator

Company Description

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, GolfNow and GolfPass.

Job Description

The Opportunity

As a Transmission Coordinator, you’ll support Versant’s Transmission and Acquisition operations, helping ensure high-quality, reliable signal delivery for live and recorded content across news, entertainment, and sports. You’ll manage signal flows and communications supporting assignment desks, bureaus, remote locations, control rooms, partners, and affiliates in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Why This Role Matters: Reliable transmission is essential to getting content to audiences accurately and on time. In this role, your technical judgment, attention to detail, and ability to respond quickly to changing conditions will directly support the continuity and quality of Versant’s live operations.

This position is currently scheduled for an overnight shift within a 24/7/365 operation. Team members must have flexibility to work varying shifts, including days, evenings, overnights, weekends, holidays, and overtime based on business and operational needs.

This position is required to be performed full-time on-site from our Englewood Cliffs, NJ worksite.

Qualifications

What You'll Do

• Route, monitor, and perform quality control for incoming and outgoing feeds and streams supporting news, entertainment, and sports programming.
• Coordinate closely with live control rooms, field crews, remote studios, assignment desks, bureaus, partners, and affiliates to maintain reliable signal delivery.
• Operate and support transmission technologies including LiveU bonded cellular, satellite, terrestrial vendor services, and IP-based solutions, taking action to optimize signal quality.
• Troubleshoot audio, video, data, equipment, and transmission issues, partnering with Versant O&T Engineering and Incident Management teams to resolve outages and restore service quickly.
• Book and schedule remote facilities and transmission resources while meeting tight deadlines in rapidly evolving situations.
• Maintain a high level of operational awareness, accuracy, and communication throughout live and breaking-news coverage.

What You Bring

• 1–3 years of experience in live-to-air television operations, ideally within a TOC/NOC environment with responsibility for audio, video, and data quality and continuity.
• Hands-on experience operating and configuring transmission technologies such as LiveU systems, satellite receivers and antennas, IP/ASI encoders and decoders, and video plant router control panels.
• Strong troubleshooting and critical-thinking skills, with close attention to detail when diagnosing signal or equipment issues.
• The ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team while meeting strict deadlines in a high-pressure live environment.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and an interest in continually learning new technologies.
• Trust: You approach live operations with sound judgment, reliability, and a commitment to maintaining the quality and continuity of our signals.
• Teamwork: You collaborate effectively with control rooms, field teams, engineering partners, bureaus, and other stakeholders to solve problems and deliver results.
• Transparency: You communicate clearly and promptly about signal status, operational risks, outages, and changing priorities.
• Agility: You adapt quickly to breaking news, shifting assignments, technical challenges, and the demands of a 24/7 operation.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You take initiative, remain curious about emerging technologies, and look for practical ways to improve workflows and operational performance.

Bonus points: Experience independently managing transmission workflows and a demonstrated enthusiasm for learning and applying new broadcast and IP-based technologies.

Why You’ll Love It Here

This position is eligible for company-sponsored benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.

Employees based in our Englewood Cliffs office have access to a variety of convenient on-site services and amenities, including free employee parking, complimentary electric vehicle charging stations, an on-site fitness center with locker rooms and towel service, and dry-cleaning drop-off and pick-up. To support an easier commute, shuttle service is also available to and from the Englewood Cliffs campus, with pickup locations across Manhattan’s East Side and West Side, Brooklyn, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, and Secaucus.

Pay Range: $74800 - $84240

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to candidateaccessibility@versantmedia.com.

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.