News Operations Manager

We’re looking for a Los Angeles–based News Operations Manager to support our West Coast editorial and production teams across E!, MSNBC, and CNBC. You’ll partner closely with editorial, technical, and digital leaders to streamline workflows, resolve production challenges, and accelerate our shift toward unified, cross-platform content creation. The ideal candidate has a strong grounding in both linear television operations and digital media production, thrives in dynamic environments, and brings a solutions-first mindset to every challenge. This role will be central to building and sustaining the bridge between traditional broadcast and digital production environments — ensuring that live streaming, Adobe-based editing workflows, and podcast operations run seamlessly alongside our linear news coverage. Responsibilities · Provide hands-on support to our West-Coast based content teams in Los Angeles and San Fransisco, ensuring business stakeholders are aware of and engaged in developing best-in-class tools and techniques for news and media production. · Maintain breaking news and event support coverage, ensuring continuity for all West Coast operations, and working occasional weekends. · Map and document existing workflows; identify opportunities for standardization, automation, and efficiency. · Collaborate with News Ops team to identify and resolve bottlenecks, improve processes, and onboard new systems; and provide training and onboarding support, ensuring even user adoption across editorial teams. · Partner with the editorial teams you support, as well as product, engineering and other functional groups to develop next generation (AI-enabled) tools for ingest, transcription, search, metadata tagging, etc. · Partner with digital producers and editors to optimize Adobe Creative Cloud workflows (Premiere, Audition, Photoshop, After Effects), ensure cross-platform consistency in our approaches to, and data generated by the VOD and live digital content we create. · Support production logistics as needed, including studio setup, file transfer, and coordination with postproduction and distribution teams. · Partner with edit leadership to help implement standardized version control and content storage practices across Dropbox, vPost, and MAM systems. · Troubleshoot connectivity and infrastructure issues (including WiFi, file routing, and cloud access), escalating to engineering as needed. · Ability to travel to New York, San Fransisco, and other Versant sites or productions up to 25% of your month.