Director Broadcast Innovation

About Us

LIV Golf Investments is a newly formed company, with group companies in the USA and UK. Our purpose is to holistically supercharge professional golf on a global scale to help unlock the sports’ untapped potential. Greg Norman is the first and founding CEO of LIV Golf Investments. PIF, one of the world’s largest and most impactful wealth funds, with a diverse international investment portfolio, is the majority shareholder in LIV Golf Investments.

LIV Golf League

In 2022, LIV Golf launched the LIV Golf Invitational Series, an eight-event series taking place in the USA, UK, Asia and the Middle East with the world’s best golfers competing in an innovative new format featuring simultaneous team and individual play. Each tournament consists of three rounds, 54 holes, no cut and shotgun starts, with players vying for unprecedented prize purses. The team competition, faster pace, family-friendly environment, and festival-style atmosphere delivers a unique tournament experience for both players and fans.

In 2023, the LIV Golf League will officially launch with 48 players and 12 established team franchises competing in a 14-tournament schedule that will expand LIV Golf’s global footprint across North and Latin Americas, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Europe. LIV Golf is the first-ever global golf league committed to the sport’s worldwide growth, with enhanced player pathways through the International Series, a ground-breaking series of events launched in 2022 through the Asian Tour. The League is also dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing of communities through LIV to Give, LIV Golf’s global impact platform announced in June with a $100 million commitment to develop and support social and environmental initiatives in tournament host communities around the world.

Role Objective

  • To spearhead the design, delivery and implementation of LIV Golf’s broadcast innovations across multiple platforms

Responsibilities

  • Oversee relationships with LIV’s various broadcast tech vendors
  • Work with LIV’s broadcast team on implementation of tech across LIV’s live production
  • Develop new concepts with LIV Golf’s design team and wider production team and see them through to on air
  • Develop new broadcast feeds to enhance viewers second screen experience by leverage off LIV’s existing on site infrastructure
  • Design and oversee the setup of cloud based live production workflows
  • Help change how golf is covered
  • Data management, work with events/ scoring team and data partners to integrate data into existing and future products. (ball and club data, tracer, team feeds, par 3 feeds, betting platforms, etc.)
  • Engineering Support, partner with the Technical Management team to deliver best in class engineering and technical support for each live event. Illustrates the shared responsibilities of solution engineering, and event planning that is required.
  • Site Survey support

Experience & Required Skills

  • 10 + years in Live Sports Production
  • Deep understanding of live production workflows, virtual graphics, broadcast feeds, camera feeds, drone tech and RF workflows
  • Experience with remote production setup and workflows
  • Ability to be organized, detail focused, and work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • Management experience and proficiency in skilled project management strongly preferred.

The hiring range for this position ranges from $80,000 – $150,000 USD. The rate of pay offered will be dependent upon candidates’ relevant skills and experience. Management is also eligible for bonus. LIV Golf Investments is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on age, gender, disability, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, race, ethnicity, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations where we operate. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organisation, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeships. LIV Golf Investments makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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