Project Manager, Video Distribution

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $110k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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51 - 200 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Marketing • Logistics

Sand Cherry is a consulting firm specializing in delivering strategic business solutions to a variety of clients across numerous industries, including broadband, telecommunications, IT, media, healthcare, and financial services. The company excels in areas such as business process optimization, customer experience enhancement, and digital transformation. Sand Cherry's experienced consultants provide tailored solutions in project management, strategic initiative leadership, and business process optimization to help businesses streamline operations and achieve their growth goals. They are particularly noted for their innovative approaches to digital solutions and their commitment to diversity and inclusion in their business practices.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and delivery roadmap for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery program • Coordinate cross-functional work across video engineering, network architecture, operations, testing, customer teams, affiliates, vendors, and external technology partners • Facilitate requirements, design, planning, status, risk, and decision meetings; document outcomes, owners, and due dates and ensure timely follow-through • Manage project scope, schedule, budget, RAID logs, decisions, change control, and executive status reporting across the full project lifecycle • Translate complex technical work involving CDN architecture, IP media transport, packet recovery, headends, capacity, and network monitoring into clear workstreams and actionable plans • Track capacity planning, traffic engineering, regional scalability, last-mile bandwidth optimization, and cost-management objectives • Coordinate testing across laboratory, peak-demand, packet-loss, recovery, resiliency, weather-event, and operational-readiness scenarios • Establish and track acceptance criteria for recovery performance, latency, network availability, capacity, utilization, and operational reporting • Manage vendor evaluations, procurement dependencies, implementation commitments, and delivery performance • Identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues affecting performance, interoperability, timeline, budget, customer readiness, or operational continuity • Coordinate deployment planning, customer and affiliate readiness, communications, cutover, implementation validation, and transition to ongoing operations and support • Ensure deliverables align with architecture standards, CONOPS, operational controls, monitoring requirements, and lifecycle management processes • Provide decision-oriented updates to senior leaders and technical stakeholders • Build working relationships across engineering, operations, vendors, customers, affiliates, and business teams while maintaining accountability for outcomes

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of project or program management experience leading complex technology, telecommunications, network, media, or infrastructure initiatives • Experience managing large, cross-functional technical programs from planning through testing, deployment, operational readiness, and handoff • Working knowledge of large-scale video distribution, live and linear video delivery, Content Delivery Networks (CDNs), IP-based media transport, or distributed networks • Experience coordinating technical work involving satellite-terrestrial distribution, headends, earth stations, TAPs, receivers, packet recovery, media edge, or related video infrastructure is strongly preferred • Understanding of terrestrial IP networking, traffic management, capacity planning, network resiliency, monitoring, and optimization concepts • Experience managing integrated project plans, budgets, RAID logs, dependencies, change control, governance, status reporting, and executive communications • Experience developing and coordinating test plans, acceptance criteria, deployment readiness, cutover activities, and operational transition for critical technology platforms • Experience managing technology vendors and implementation partners • Familiarity with ARQ, RIST-based transport, packet recovery networks, or Video Services Forum specifications, including VSF TR-06-4 Parts 6 and 7, is a plus • Proven ability to understand the end-to-end video distribution ecosystem and connect technical delivery decisions to business outcomes • Strong analytical, organizational, and decision-making skills with the ability to manage competing priorities and make timely, data-informed recommendations • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical issues for business and executive audiences • Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management skills with the ability to influence teams without direct authority • Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint, and standard project management, documentation, reporting, and collaboration tools • Successful completion of applicable background screening requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Telecommunications, Broadcast Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Project Management, or a related discipline • Must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or visa transfers

🏖️ Benefits

• Long-term consulting opportunity • Professional career growth opportunities • Digital workforce • Self-responsibility and autonomy in managing workloads • Recognition for employee contributions • Friendly and communicative work culture

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