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Feld Entertainment · 4 months ago

Director of Media Services

Ellenton, Florida - E-Verify

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

8+ years exp

Feld Entertainment is the worldwide leader in producing and presenting live touring family entertainment experiences. The Director of Media Services will lead the enterprise Media Services function, owning the strategy and operations of a cloud-first Media Asset Management platform, while collaborating with various teams to align priorities and standardize workflows.

FamilyMedia and Entertainment

Responsibilities

Engage Broadcast, Creative, Digital Marketing, Consumer Products, and Production to intake priorities, co-develop quarterly roadmaps, and align workflows and standards

Lead MAM strategy and phased cutover (6–12 months) from OTMM; run vendor RFI/RFP/bake-offs (e.g., IPV Curator, Viz One, Iconik); manage budgets and SOWs

Design AWS media architecture (S3 with lifecycle/replication, CloudFront with signed URLs/DRM, Lambda/Step Functions/EventBridge) for global scalability and performance

Define IPTC/XMP standards, controlled vocabularies, approval states, rights/embargo/expiry policies, and provenance

Implement SSO/SCIM, IAM least-privilege, KMS encryption, VPC endpoints; enable CloudTrail/GuardDuty/Macie; establish retention and privacy workflows (GDPR/CCPA)

Standardize SRT/Zixi/NDI/RIST ingest, growing files, timecode/SCTE markers, captions/transcripts; support venue and remote contribution

Deliver low-latency proxy editorial, check-in/out, and conform for Adobe/Avid/Resolve; enable rapid turnaround packages and highlights

Integrate Adobe CC/Avid/Resolve panels, Workfront/Jira, Aspera/Signiant, downstream distribution; drive APIs/webhooks and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) for repeatable pipelines

Pilot/scale archive digitization; manage S3 tiering/replication, restore approaches, egress strategy, and cost management

Establish operational readiness, monitoring/alerting, incident/change management, runbooks, and on-call for live events; hire, coach, and manage vendor performance

Qualification

Cloud media architectureMedia Asset ManagementAWS experienceVendor managementSecurity/privacy backgroundAdobe CC integrationsLive/broadcast ingestCross-functional communicationBudget ownershipTeam leadership

Required

Requires 8+ years in media operations

5+ years in cloud media architecture

2+ enterprise MAM deployments

Deep AWS experience: S3 (versioning/lifecycle/replication), CloudFront, KMS/IAM, Lambda/Step Functions, MediaConvert

Familiarity with MediaPackage/MediaConnect/MediaLive

Proven delivery of live/broadcast ingest (SRT/Zixi/NDI/RIST), captions, timecode, and growing-file editorial

Security/privacy background (SSO/SCIM, RBAC/ABAC, encryption, GDPR/CCPA retention)

Vendor management (RFPs, bake-offs, SOWs) and budget ownership

Strong cross-functional communication

Adobe CC/Avid/Resolve integrations

Workfront/Jira

Aspera/Signiant

DRM (Widevine/FairPlay/PlayReady)

Experience supporting international agencies/partners and regional content requirements

Hands-on with one or more MAMs (IPV Curator, Viz One, Iconik, Dalet, etc.)

Experience replacing OTMM is a plus

Preferred

Live events, sports, or entertainment background preferred

Company

Feld Entertainment

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Feld Entertainment is the worldwide leader in producing and presenting live touring family entertainment experiences.

Founded in 1967

Palmetto, Florida, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.feldentertainment.com/

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Leadership Team

Nathan Lorton

Sr. Vice President, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer

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