Digital Operator

This is a Freelance Job

PEP, Digital Operator (Freelance)

Company Description

Job Description

The Opportunity

Versant is looking for a freelance/PEP Digital Operator to support the technical execution of digital productions, including live streams, podcasts, remote recordings, and other digital-first content. This role is based in New York, NY and requires on-site work. (Weekend availability required)

In this role, you'll help ensure that productions are set up, monitored, recorded, streamed, and delivered with consistency and technical precision. You'll work closely with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and other partners to support smooth execution in a fast-paced production environment.

Why This Role Matters: Versant is continuing to expand its digital production capabilities across live, social, podcast, and emerging digital formats. This role helps power that growth by supporting reliable production workflows, resolving technical issues quickly, and helping teams create high-quality digital content across platforms.

What You'll Do
• Operate and support live digital productions using vMix and related production technologies.
• Support remote recordings and podcast production workflows using Riverside, including setup, monitoring, quality control, and post-production handoff.
• Assist with live streaming, switching, graphics integration, recording, and monitoring for digital-first productions.
• Prepare studios, equipment, and remote production environments ahead of recordings, live events, and digital shoots.
• Troubleshoot technical issues quickly during live and recorded productions to help maintain production quality and minimize disruption.
• Partner with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and cross-functional teams to support seamless execution and identify opportunities to improve workflows.

Qualifications

What You Bring
• 2 years of experience supporting live, digital, or media production environments.
• Hands-on experience operating vMix.
• Experience using Riverside for remote recording, podcast production, or similar digital production workflows.
• Familiarity with podcast production workflows, live streaming, and digital-first production environments.
• Strong understanding of audio and video signal flow.
• Ability to troubleshoot technical issues under deadline pressure.
• Strong communication, organization, and follow-through.
• Availability to work on-site in New York, NY, including weekends as needed.

You'll also bring the behaviors that reflect how we work at Versant:
• Trust: You take ownership of your work, follow through on commitments, and handle live production responsibilities with care.
• Teamwork: You collaborate effectively with producers, talent, engineering, editorial, and other partners to deliver a strong final product.
• Transparency: You communicate clearly about production needs, technical issues, risks, and workflow updates.
• Agility: You stay calm under pressure, adapt quickly during live or fast-moving productions, and solve problems in real time.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: You are curious about new tools, formats, and workflows, and you look for ways to help strengthen Versant's digital production capabilities.

Bonus points for experience with livestreams for YouTube, social platforms, or OTT distribution; streaming encoders; production switchers; cloud-based production tools; Adobe Creative Cloud, especially Premiere Pro and Audition; IP-based production workflows such as NDI or SRT; and digital content distribution or social publishing workflows.

Why You'll Love It Here

You'll help support a growing digital production operation at Versant, working across live streaming, podcasts, remote recordings, and other digital formats. This is an opportunity to contribute to a fast-moving production environment, collaborate with teams across content and technology, and help bring digital-first programming to life.

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.