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The Technical Director, Digital Shows will support new livestream initiatives based out of Yahoo's New York City studios. This position is responsible for ensuring all equipment and facilities are ready for recordings and live broadcasts, switching video sources, and insertion of pre-recorded and live material and graphics as instructed by the show director or producer.

Responsibilities:

• Technical Directing and Directing company live streams

• Technical Producing live streams and experiential events (in NY and elsewhere in the US) that involve AV, streams or records (tech drawings, procuring gear, testing workflows prior to shows, building show files, etc). 

• Production Managing one-off shows (creating master sheets, project trackers, ROs, call sheets, deliverable lists, etc) 

• Acting as liaison between internal teams and vendors to ensure projects run smoothly 

• Filling in on other production roles as needed (encoding engineer, PTZ op, editing, etc)

• Providing input into the creative side of the production on both the video and audio aspects of the programming

• Overseeing the technical quality of the signal being recorded or broadcast

Qualifications:

• At least four years' experience as a TD in live control room environments

• Experience with VMix and the ability to produce remote productions using cloud-based production software

• Calm and efficient communicator capable of giving constructive feedback, as well as receiving and implementing it

Yahoo is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category. Yahoo is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please submit a request via the Accommodation Request Form (www.yahooinc.com/careers/contact-us.html) or call 408-336-1409. Requests and calls received for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.

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The compensation for this position ranges from $90,750.00 - $188,750.00/yr and will vary depending on factors such as your location, skills and experience. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary annual bonus or commissions, in addition to equity incentives. Yahoo provides industry-leading benefits including healthcare, 401K savings plan, company holidays, vacation, sick time, parental leave and an employee assistance program. Eligibility requirements apply.

Yahoo has a high degree of flexibility around employee location and hybrid working. In fact, our flexible-hybrid approach to work is one of the things our employees rave about. Most roles don’t require specific regular patterns of in-person office attendance. If you join Yahoo, you may be asked to attend (or travel to attend) on-site work sessions, team-building, or other in-person events. When these occur, you’ll be given notice to make arrangements. 

If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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