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NewsNation is seeking an experienced Executive Director of Technology to lead broadcast and production technology, technical infrastructure, and technology teams across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, this onsite Midtown Manhattan role directly leads the New York and Washington, D.C. teams and provides dotted-line functional leadership to the Chicago team.
The Executive Director will establish a unified technology strategy across NewsNation while maintaining hands-on oversight of the New York technology operation. The role is responsible for technical reliability, team development, infrastructure planning, and ensuring Technology has the skills and readiness required to support a fast-paced national news operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead NewsNation's technology strategy and technical operations across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
- Directly lead the New York and Washington technology teams, provide functional leadership to the Chicago team, and maintain hands-on oversight of New York team development, technical readiness, troubleshooting capabilities, and day-to-day performance.
- Serve as the senior technology partner to the Vice President, Operations and Operations leadership.
- Establish network-wide standards and priorities for system reliability, technology support, maintenance, documentation, disaster recovery, and technical projects.
- Ensure technical issues have clear ownership, escalation, communication, and follow-through; drive recurring problems toward sustainable resolution; and lead the technology response during major incidents, breaking news, special events, and other critical production periods.
- Lead technical planning for studios, control rooms, signal paths, transmission, remote production, and supporting broadcast infrastructure, advancing appropriate cross-market standardization in technology practices, ownership, documentation, and resilience.
- Develop a network technology roadmap identifying technical risks, lifecycle requirements, infrastructure needs, and investment priorities, and partner with Operations on capital planning, facility projects, system upgrades, and technology investments.
- Build and maintain structured training, cross-training, mentorship, and professional-development programs, including a skills and certification roadmap and regular opportunities for technology staff to maintain and expand relevant credentials.
- Strengthen troubleshooting and organizational capability through technical training, knowledge-sharing, documentation, practical development, and cross-training; identify skill gaps and single points of knowledge; and broaden technical capabilities across the organization.
- Coordinate with NewsNation teams, corporate technology resources, vendors, and other technical partners.
- Lead represented and non-represented employees while working within applicable collective bargaining agreements and partnering with Human Resources and Labor Relations as appropriate.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in broadcast technology, broadcast technology, television technology, live-production technology, or a closely related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience leading technology teams and technical operations in a complex live television or media environment.
- Strong knowledge of studios, control rooms, broadcast production systems, signal flow, transmission, remote production, and supporting technical infrastructure.
- Experience leading major technical projects, facility upgrades, infrastructure modernization, and system implementations.
- Experience leading technical teams across multiple facilities or geographically distributed operations.
- Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent through training, cross-training, mentorship, knowledge transfer, and skills development.
- Experience working with represented and non-represented employees.
- Ability to lead effectively through direct-report, dotted-line, and shared-resource organizational structures.
- Strong troubleshooting, project-management, vendor-management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues, risks, and recommendations clearly to operational and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to provide effective leadership in a fast-paced, 24/7 live-news environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in technology, broadcast technology, computer science, information technology, or a related field preferred, not required.
- Relevant technical certifications or specialized training.
- National network or 24/7 news technology experience.
- Experience with IP-based broadcast infrastructure, remote production, streaming, and digital production technologies.
- Experience developing multi-year technical and capital plans.
Schedule and Travel
This is an onsite position based in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Regular travel to Chicago and Washington, D.C. is expected, along with other travel as necessary to support NewsNation operations, projects, facilities, training, vendors, and special productions.
The position requires flexibility outside normal business hours during breaking news, special events, major technical projects, system outages, and other critical operational situations.
Compensation
$200,000-$250,000 annually, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Benefits Statement
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, a 401(k) with company matching contributions, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.
About NewsNation
NewsNation is a national news network owned by Nexstar Media Group and dedicated to delivering fact-based, unbiased journalism for all Americans. Reaching audiences nationwide across cable, digital, and mobile platforms, NewsNation combines a national newsroom with the strength of more than 6,000 journalists in 110 local newsrooms across the country.
Equal Opportunity Employer
NewsNation and Nexstar Media Group are equal opportunity employers committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law.
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Please be aware candidates may be at risk of being targeted by scammers seeking personal data or money. Recruiters with Nexstar Media Group and its local stations will only contact you through official job boards, LinkedIn, or email with Nexstar.tv domain or official station email addresses (example:@wreg.com). Be cautious of any outreach claiming to be from Nexstar or its recruiters via any other messaging platforms or personal email addresses. We will not contact you using a @gmail email address. If you are unsure about the authenticity of a job inquiry or offer, email us at corporaterecruiters@nexstar.tv .
NewsNation is seeking an experienced Executive Director of Technology to lead broadcast and production technology, technical infrastructure, and technology teams across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C. Reporting to the Vice President, Operations, this onsite Midtown Manhattan role directly leads the New York and Washington, D.C. teams and provides dotted-line functional leadership to the Chicago team.
The Executive Director will establish a unified technology strategy across NewsNation while maintaining hands-on oversight of the New York technology operation. The role is responsible for technical reliability, team development, infrastructure planning, and ensuring Technology has the skills and readiness required to support a fast-paced national news operation.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead NewsNation's technology strategy and technical operations across New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.
- Directly lead the New York and Washington technology teams, provide functional leadership to the Chicago team, and maintain hands-on oversight of New York team development, technical readiness, troubleshooting capabilities, and day-to-day performance.
- Serve as the senior technology partner to the Vice President, Operations and Operations leadership.
- Establish network-wide standards and priorities for system reliability, technology support, maintenance, documentation, disaster recovery, and technical projects.
- Ensure technical issues have clear ownership, escalation, communication, and follow-through; drive recurring problems toward sustainable resolution; and lead the technology response during major incidents, breaking news, special events, and other critical production periods.
- Lead technical planning for studios, control rooms, signal paths, transmission, remote production, and supporting broadcast infrastructure, advancing appropriate cross-market standardization in technology practices, ownership, documentation, and resilience.
- Develop a network technology roadmap identifying technical risks, lifecycle requirements, infrastructure needs, and investment priorities, and partner with Operations on capital planning, facility projects, system upgrades, and technology investments.
- Build and maintain structured training, cross-training, mentorship, and professional-development programs, including a skills and certification roadmap and regular opportunities for technology staff to maintain and expand relevant credentials.
- Strengthen troubleshooting and organizational capability through technical training, knowledge-sharing, documentation, practical development, and cross-training; identify skill gaps and single points of knowledge; and broaden technical capabilities across the organization.
- Coordinate with NewsNation teams, corporate technology resources, vendors, and other technical partners.
- Lead represented and non-represented employees while working within applicable collective bargaining agreements and partnering with Human Resources and Labor Relations as appropriate.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 10 years of progressively responsible experience in broadcast technology, broadcast technology, television technology, live-production technology, or a closely related technical field.
- Demonstrated experience leading technology teams and technical operations in a complex live television or media environment.
- Strong knowledge of studios, control rooms, broadcast production systems, signal flow, transmission, remote production, and supporting technical infrastructure.
- Experience leading major technical projects, facility upgrades, infrastructure modernization, and system implementations.
- Experience leading technical teams across multiple facilities or geographically distributed operations.
- Demonstrated ability to develop technical talent through training, cross-training, mentorship, knowledge transfer, and skills development.
- Experience working with represented and non-represented employees.
- Ability to lead effectively through direct-report, dotted-line, and shared-resource organizational structures.
- Strong troubleshooting, project-management, vendor-management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Ability to communicate complex technical issues, risks, and recommendations clearly to operational and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to provide effective leadership in a fast-paced, 24/7 live-news environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in technology, broadcast technology, computer science, information technology, or a related field preferred, not required.
- Relevant technical certifications or specialized training.
- National network or 24/7 news technology experience.
- Experience with IP-based broadcast infrastructure, remote production, streaming, and digital production technologies.
- Experience developing multi-year technical and capital plans.
Schedule and Travel
This is an onsite position based in Midtown Manhattan, New York. Regular travel to Chicago and Washington, D.C. is expected, along with other travel as necessary to support NewsNation operations, projects, facilities, training, vendors, and special productions.
The position requires flexibility outside normal business hours during breaking news, special events, major technical projects, system outages, and other critical operational situations.
Compensation
$200,000-$250,000 annually, commensurate with experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Benefits Statement
Benefits: Our comprehensive benefits package for full-time employees includes, but not limited to, medical (with multiple plan options), dental, and vision insurance, paid time off, a 401(k) with company matching contributions, Paid Parental leave, life insurance and more.
About NewsNation
NewsNation is a national news network owned by Nexstar Media Group and dedicated to delivering fact-based, unbiased journalism for all Americans. Reaching audiences nationwide across cable, digital, and mobile platforms, NewsNation combines a national newsroom with the strength of more than 6,000 journalists in 110 local newsrooms across the country.
Equal Opportunity Employer
NewsNation and Nexstar Media Group are equal opportunity employers committed to fostering an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic under applicable law.
#LI-Onsite
SCAM ALERT:
Please be aware candidates may be at risk of being targeted by scammers seeking personal data or money. Recruiters with Nexstar Media Group and its local stations will only contact you through official job boards, LinkedIn, or email with Nexstar.tv domain or official station email addresses (example:@wreg.com). Be cautious of any outreach claiming to be from Nexstar or its recruiters via any other messaging platforms or personal email addresses. We will not contact you using a @gmail email address. If you are unsure about the authenticity of a job inquiry or offer, email us at corporaterecruiters@nexstar.tv .
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in executive director of technology jobs.
- 10 or more years of progressive technology leadership experience, including director-level roles
- Demonstrated experience owning multi-million-dollar technology budgets and vendor contracts
- Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience leading enterprise digital transformation or large-scale infrastructure modernization
- Strong knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, compliance standards, and risk management
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, with an MBA or advanced degree preferred
Tips for Your Executive Director of Technology Job Search
Align your resume to P&L ownership
Executive director of technology hiring panels look for direct budget ownership, not just team leadership. Quantify the budgets you managed and the cost savings or revenue outcomes your technology decisions produced. Vague leadership language gets filtered out quickly at this level.
Highlight cross-functional governance experience
Boards and C-suites want an executive director of technology who can translate technical risk into business language. Document your experience presenting to audit committees, steering boards, or executive leadership, and name the frameworks you used, such as COBIT or NIST.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists executive director of technology openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target organizations mid-transformation
Companies actively modernizing legacy infrastructure or shifting to cloud-first architectures hire executive directors of technology at a faster pace. Look for organizations that have announced digital transformation initiatives or recent private equity backing, as these signal active technology leadership openings.
Prepare a technology roadmap portfolio
Bring a sanitized version of a roadmap you built or owned into interviews. Interviewers at the executive director level expect you to demonstrate strategic planning, vendor decisions, and stakeholder alignment, not just technical fluency. A visual roadmap makes abstract leadership concrete.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
Before accepting or countering an offer, clarify reporting structure, board access, and whether the role controls capital expenditure decisions. Executive director of technology titles vary widely in actual authority, and misaligned scope is a common reason leaders leave within two years.
Executive Director of Technology Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most executive director of technologys?
UC Davis, JPMorganChase, and ROWAN-SALISBURY SCHOOLS are hiring the most executive director of technologys right now, with openings concentrated in New York, Texas, and Colorado, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Healthcare systems, universities, and large financial institutions consistently post the highest volume of these roles.
How many executive director of technology jobs are remote?
About 0% of executive director of technology openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the seniority and cross-departmental collaboration the role requires. Strategy and architecture-focused positions tend to offer the most remote flexibility, while roles that oversee on-premises infrastructure or data center operations are more likely to require an on-site presence.
How do you become a executive director of technology?
Start by building deep technical expertise in one domain, such as infrastructure, software engineering, or security, then move into people management and own progressively larger teams and budgets. Seek out roles that require vendor negotiation, enterprise architecture decisions, and executive stakeholder communication. A graduate degree in business or technology management accelerates the transition from senior technical roles to executive leadership.
How do you get hired as an executive director of technology with limited leadership experience?
Move into an acting or interim director role within your current organization to build a documented leadership record before applying externally. Smaller organizations, nonprofits, and growth-stage companies often hire candidates who can demonstrate technical depth and strategic thinking even without a long formal leadership history. Building a visible record of cross-functional project ownership closes much of the experience gap.
What does the executive director of technology interview process look like?
Expect multiple rounds that include a screening call with HR, a technical and strategic discussion with the CIO or CTO, a panel interview with business unit leaders, and in many cases a presentation round where you are asked to respond to a case study or present a technology vision. Final rounds often include a conversation with the CFO or a board member, particularly in regulated industries or large institutions.
Where can I find and apply to executive director of technology jobs?
You can find and apply to executive director of technology jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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