Project Manager, Video Distribution

Company Profile

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions. Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team. Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.

Overview

The Video Distribution Project Manager will manage the planning, coordination, and delivery of a large-scale terrestrial Content Delivery Network (CDN) initiative supporting satellite-terrestrial video distribution across the United States. This project manager role will support the cross-functional work required to deliver a resilient, scalable video distribution platform supporting peak demand, optimizing last-mile bandwidth consumption, controlling operating costs, and maintaining reliable service during significant weather events and other network disruptions. The Project Manager will partner closely with video engineering, network architecture, operations, customers, affiliates, vendors, and other business stakeholders to translate technical strategy into executable plans, manage dependencies and risks, and drive testing, readiness, deployment, and operational handoff. This is a remote role working mostly EST hours. All qualified candidates must be authorized to work without visa sponsorship or visa transfers.

Responsibilities

·      Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, schedule, milestones, dependencies, resource needs, and delivery roadmap for the terrestrial CDN and packet recovery program.

·      Coordinate cross-functional work across video engineering, network architecture, operations, testing, customer teams, affiliates, vendors, and external technology partners.

·      Facilitate requirements, design, planning, status, risk, and decision meetings; document outcomes, owners, and due dates and ensure timely follow-through.

·      Manage project scope, schedule, budget, RAID logs, decisions, change control, and executive status reporting across the full project lifecycle.

·      Translate complex technical work involving CDN architecture, IP media transport, packet recovery, headends, capacity, and network monitoring into clear workstreams and actionable plans.

·      Track delivery of capacity planning, traffic engineering, regional scalability, last-mile bandwidth optimization, and cost-management objectives.

·      Coordinate test strategy and execution across laboratory, peak-demand, packet-loss, recovery, resiliency, weather-event, and operational-readiness scenarios.

·      Establish and track measurable acceptance criteria, including recovery performance, latency, network availability, capacity, utilization, and operational reporting objectives.

·      Manage vendor evaluations, procurement dependencies, implementation commitments, and delivery performance for technology partners and engineering resources.

·      Identify, assess, and escalate risks and issues that may affect performance, interoperability, timeline, budget, customer readiness, or operational continuity.

·      Coordinate deployment planning, customer and affiliate readiness, communications, cutover, implementation validation, and transition to ongoing operations and support.

·      Ensure project deliverables align with applicable architecture standards, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), operational controls, monitoring requirements, and lifecycle management processes.

·      Provide concise, decision-oriented updates to senior leaders and technical stakeholders, including progress, blockers, trade-offs, financial impacts, and recommended actions.

·      Build strong working relationships across engineering, operations, vendors, customers, affiliates, and business teams while maintaining accountability for project outcomes.