Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rangam is seeking a Technical Project Manager to support live video streaming operations. The role involves ensuring smooth execution of live events by coordinating with various teams and managing technical aspects related to broadcast operations.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a key point of contact for vendor engagement and event-day technical support
- Support, train, and enable vendor teams to ensure Live and VOD events are monitored, executed, and delivered with efficiency and accuracy
- Monitor live broadcasts in real time, triaging and escalating technical issues
- Drive real-time coordination with production and engineering teams to mitigate and resolve issues during live events
- Design and document signal path architectures for platform workflows, applying broadcast standards to validate and optimize contribution and distribution pipelines
- Validate transcoding configurations, metadata integrity, failover procedures, and quality assurance checkpoints across the ingest-to-egress chain
- Apply deep knowledge of streaming infrastructure -- ingest protocols, encoding pipelines, CDN egress, ABR packaging, and playback delivery -- to optimize configurations, identify systemic issues, and inform platform roadmap decisions
- Design, develop, and maintain bespoke AI tooling solutions to streamline operations
Skills
- 3+ years of experience in video content operations, broadcast operations, streaming media, or related technical roles in entertainment/media industries
- Working knowledge of live broadcast environments: switching/routing, signal path design, network monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Understanding of broadcast contribution and distribution standards (e.g., SMPTE ST 2110/2022, SCTE-35, SEI/KLV metadata, closed captioning)
- Experience executing on streaming platform fundamentals: ingest protocols (RTMP, SRT, RIST), transcoding/encoding, adaptive bitrate packaging (HLS, DASH), and CDN delivery
- Experience with VR/immersive or next-gen media formats
- Demonstrated project management ability, managing multiple priorities simultaneously from initiation to completion
- Experience in fast-paced, dynamic environments with competing priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable interfacing with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working on large cross-functional teams
- Experience with signal path planning tools, network diagrams, or workflow visualization (e.g., Figma, Excalidraw, Mermaid)
- Hands-on experience with broadcast control systems, video routers, or IP-based media workflows
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms for live video
- Experience developing operational documentation, SOPs, runbooks, or process playbooks
- Background in platform feature scoping, requirements gathering, or product operations
- Knowledge of cloud-based media processing pipelines (transcoding farms, origin servers, etc.)
- Experience at a studio, media company, streaming platform, post-production facility, or live event production environment
- Familiarity with automation and scripting for operational workflows
- Understanding of content protection (DRM), watermarking, or access control mechanisms in live streaming
- Demonstrated experience in developing AI tools
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