Senior Media Manager

Tennis Channel is seeking an experienced Senior Media Manager to lead the acquisition, organization, and distribution of our media assets across all platforms both physical and digital. This role is central to our media operations, ensuring content flows seamlessly between production, post-production, marketing, digital, and external partners.

As the Senior Media Manager, you’ll set the example for a team of media managers, champion best practices, and help shape the future of our media supply chain—including the transition to cloud-native workflows. If you're highly organized, tech-savvy, and passionate about media systems, this is for you.

This role is onsite and based in Santa Monica, CA.

In this role, you will:

• Lead end-to-end media operations from ingest through archive, including metadata, deletion, and restores.
• Supervise media managers ensuring accurate ingest, cataloging, delivery, and metadata tagging  for studio shows, streaming, remote productions, and partners.
• Drive Tennis Channel’s migration to a cloud-native media environment.
• Be the on-premise lead developing physical workflow for migrating LTO tapes to cloud.
• Manage file movement workflows, including transcoding, encoding, metadata entry, and troubleshooting.
• Stay ahead of industry trends in file-based technologies, formats, and workflows.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Production on physical hardward and software system maintenance and workflow optimization.
• Support content delivery across departments—Production, Marketing, Digital, Sales, and third-party vendors.
• Train and support media team and ingest personnel to ensure consistent workflows.
• Provide NLE troubleshooting and manage editing projects (original programming, promos, matches, etc.).
• Maintain onsite hardware inventory, including SD cards, LTO archive, and hard drives.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in media asset management or related field
• Strong experience with cloud production/post workflows and cloud migration
• Expert-level proficiency with Avid tools: Interplay, Media Composer, Nexis, Fast Serve, Media Central UX, etc
• Avid Interplay administrator experience
• Ability to work onsite in Santa Monica, California to maintain physical inventory of drives, LTO tapes, and trouble shoot NLE physical hardware
• Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud
• Experience with MAM systems (e.g., Mimir), Telestream, Kumulate, and Signiant
• Deep knowledge of codecs, wrappers, and transcode workflows
• Experience in sports media is a plus; knowledge of tennis and pickleball, is a bonus!

Tennis Channel is proud to be equal opportunity employer and a drug free workplace. Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by virtue of an applicant's or employee's race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

About Tennis Channel
Tennis Channel is the only multiplatform destination dedicated solely to tennis year-round. Together, the Tennis Channel flagship network, Tennis Channel 2, and the Tennis Channel app (tennischannel.com) deliver the most accessible and concentrated single-sport coverage anywhere. As the exclusive U.S. home of the ATP Tour and WTA Tour, Tennis Channel features live coverage of every Masters 1000 tournament — including Indian Wells, the Miami Open, Madrid, Rome, Cincinnati, and more — alongside live studio programming including its premier series, TC Live. Tennis Channel 2, a free FAST channel available in over 100 million homes, brings fans matches from across the globe at every level of the game. The Tennis Channel app brings it all together in one place, delivering live and on-demand matches, original content, and a personalized multi-view experience for fans, available on mobile and connected TV devices. Owned by Sinclair, Tennis Channel is also a co-owner of PickleballTV (pickleballtv.com), a joint venture with the Professional Pickleball Association.

About Sinclair
Sinclair, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) is a diversified media company and a leading provider of local news and sports. The Company owns, operates and/or provides services to 185 television stations in 86 markets affiliated with all the major broadcast networks; and owns Tennis Channel and multicast networks Comet, CHARGE!, ROAR, and The Nest. Sinclair's content is delivered via multiple platforms, including over-the-air, multi-channel video program distributors, and the nation's largest streaming aggregator of local news content, NewsON. The Company regularly uses its website as a key source of Company information which can be accessed at www.sbgi.net.

About the Team
The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

The base salary compensation range for this role is $70,000 to $87,000. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates’ relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.

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