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About Diversified:

Diversified is a global leader in audio visual and media innovation, recognized for designing and building the world's most experiential environments. Our award-winning team specializes in delivering solutions for the most complex, large-scale and immersive installations. Serving a global clientele that includes major media organizations and retailers, sports and live performance venues, corporate enterprises, and government agencies, Diversified partners with clients to create spaces that bring people together and keep them coming back.

What to Expect:

At Diversified, we're on a mission to create a world without boundaries, where technology enables all people to connect and experience the moments that matter, wherever they choose to be. With clients spanning the globe and an exciting pipeline of projects across industries, Diversified offers more than just a job. We offer a career path with the flexibility to grow personally and professionally, wherever your ambitions take you.

As a Diversified associate, you'll dive headfirst into big, complex, and rewarding projects that push the boundaries of what's possible. Plus, you'll enjoy a flexible work environment, competitive compensation and benefits, and a culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion.

IF YOU CAN DREAM IT, YOU CAN DO IT AT DIVERSIFIED.

How You'll Contribute:

The Vice President, Media Solutions Architecture (VP Media) is responsible for providing senior technical and advisory leadership for all media, broadcast, and live-production projects. This role leads a team of Senior Solutions Architects and serves to direct the organization's most senior subject-matter authority for media-related system architecture, solution strategy, and technical consultation.

Reporting to the Vice President - Tech Ops, the VP Media operates primarily in a consultative capacity-advising clients, Sales, Engineering, and Project Teams on complex media solutions while guiding internal technical direction on task assignments. This role supports design engineers to create media solutions that are technically sound, scalable, operationally viable, and aligned with both client objectives and Diversified delivery capabilities.

What You'll Do:

• Lead and manage a team of Senior Solutions Architects specializing in media, broadcast, and live-production systems.
• Serve as the senior technical advisor for all media-related projects, providing guidance during presales, design, and delivery phases.
• Partner with Sales and client stakeholders to shape media system strategies, validate technical approaches, and support complex pursuits.
• Establish technical direction and advisory guidance for media system architecture, signal flow, timing, synchronization, redundancy, and performance requirements.
• Provide consultative oversight to Design Engineering and Project Teams, ensuring media solutions align with best practices and operational expectations.
• Assign and prioritize advisory and solution architecture tasks across the media solutions architecture team.
• Act as the primary escalation point for complex or high-risk media engineering decisions and challenges.
• Collaborate with support roles like Project Support Engineering, Programming, and Configuration & Commissioning leadership to ensure media designs are executable and commissionable.
• Stay current with evolving media, broadcast, and IP-based production technologies, translating industry trends into practical guidance for clients and internal teams.
• Contribute to the development of media-specific standards, reference architectures, and best practices in coordination with Engineering leadership.

• Approves media system architectures and technical approaches for complex or high-profile projects.
• Determines advisory engagement level and task assignment for Senior Solutions Architects.
• Evaluates technical risks associated with media systems and determines mitigation strategies.
• Guides tradeoffs between performance, complexity, cost, and operational sustainability.
• Determines when media-related technical issues require escalation to executive engineering leadership.
• External partnership with:
  • Client executive and technical stakeholders
  • Media, broadcast, and production technology manufacturers
  • Strategic media and broadcast partners or consultants

What You'll Bring:

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in broadcast engineering, media systems integration, or live-production environments.
• 5+ years of experience leading senior technical professionals or solutions architecture teams.
• Deep expertise in media workflows, signal transport, timing, synchronization, and redundancy.
• Proven ability to act as a trusted technical advisor to clients and executive stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of the full project lifecycle from pre-sales through commissioning.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical outcomes through consultation rather than direct control.
• Excellent communication skills for executive, client-facing, and cross-functional environments.

Desired Skills/Qualifications:

• AVIXA CTS-D, CTS-I, or equivalent broadcast-related certifications.
• Experience supporting stadiums, arenas, broadcast studios, or enterprise media environments.
• Expertise in IP-based media transport and advanced broadcast architectures.
• Experience developing technical standards or reference architectures at scale.