THIS WEEK · AUGUST 2026
BY CHRIS · WEEKLY SENIOR SEAT SCAN
Every Monday I take a quiet look across our corner of the industry and pull out the senior seats that have just opened up. Not job-board noise, the real ones. This week the net got wider: all of our member companies in one pass for the first time, plus new channels reaching beyond them. The result is 84 live senior seats across four continents, and the whole board is below. But first, because a list without context is just a list, here is what five weeks of watching this market is actually telling us.
What the market is telling us
What five weeks of tracking is telling us
Speed is the story
Three senior roles we were tracking closed or filled within days this week. Netflix filled a Singapore directorship inside a month of posting it. Disney's country GM seat for Indonesia came and went in under three weeks. And Warner Bros. Discovery quietly closed more than half of the senior streaming roles we were tracking, in a single week. The realistic window on a senior seat in our industry is now two to eight weeks, and the best ones sit at the short end of that. If something below fits you, the time to move is this week, not next month.
Follow the energy
Follow the energy and it leads to sport and to advertising. DAZN's board grew from 101 postings to 132 in seven days and now carries more live senior commercial seats than any other company we watch, across New York, London and Tokyo at once. World Rugby is hiring a Managing Director and two Executive Directors to build a World Cup in America. And look inside the roles themselves: roughly a quarter of this entire board is advertising and monetisation in some form, from DAZN's new ad-sales leadership to Netflix's ads build to the twelve-plus seats across Comcast's FreeWheel, Xumo and Universal Ads businesses. The industry has decided where its next revenue lives, and it is staffing for it.
The other side of the ledger is consolidation
The vendor and infrastructure side of our world is quiet: Harmonic's video business has gone into MediaKind, Synamedia sits inside Lumine, MultiChoice inside Canal+, and several boards we watch have simply gone dark. Five weeks ago the vendor side produced most of our list; this week it produced almost none of it. The senior seats are migrating to the platforms, the broadcasters and the rights holders, and careers will follow the same route.
A note on geography and money
New York alone holds roughly thirty of the 84 seats this week, London around a dozen, and the publicly visible MENA market is close to zero senior hiring right now. The American roles mostly publish their salary bands, up to $444k on this board; the British ones mostly still do not. Worth knowing when you negotiate.
The shortlist
The ten I would want a friend to see first
VP Media Sales
New York
The executive seat for North American commercial growth across advertising, distribution and partnerships, $280k to $300k, closes 4 September.
VP Commercial Strategy
London
Agency trading relationships and multi-market revenue strategy; their third live senior commercial seat in London right now, which tells its own story.
Director / VP, Strategic Business Development, Media Services & Localisation EMEA
London
A build-your-own-strategy growth seat at the company that underpins half the industry's content supply chain, with earning potential to match.
VP, Brand Marketing, Disney+ and Hulu
Burbank
Global brand strategy for the two biggest entertainment streamers under one roof, $236k to $316k.
Executive Director of Product, Growth & Monetization
San Francisco or Glendale
Product strategy for acquisition, retention and monetisation across the streaming portfolio, $251k to $370k.
Growth Marketing Director
New York
Leading subscriber growth for CNN's streaming services into new audiences and markets; posted days ago, the freshest role on this list.
VP, Head of Supply
New York
Owning the supply side of one of the biggest ad platforms in television, base $296k to $444k.
Managing Director, Rugby World Cup USA 2031
USA
The person who will deliver rugby's biggest ever bet on America; two sibling Executive Director seats (Growth and Commercial) are live alongside it, closes 28 August.
Director of Product Marketing
Remote, Europe
Director-level product marketing for serious video infrastructure, and fully remote within Europe, which almost never happens at this level.
Sr. Manager, Head of Ad Sales, SEA
Singapore
Building the ads business across Southeast Asia for the biggest streamer in the world.
The rest of the board
Every live senior seat this Monday
Everything below was verified live this Monday. Where a closing date is shown it is real. This week three senior doors shut within days of opening, so treat the dates with respect.
London, UK & Europe
17 rolesHead of Distribution & Partnerships
DAZN · London
Head of Strategy
DAZN · London
VP Social
DAZN · London
Commercial Director, UK & Global
Comcast / FreeWheel · London
Senior Director, Growth & Emerging Markets
Comcast / FreeWheel · London
Digital Operations Controller (Sky Media)
Sky · Osterley
Head of Design, Digital Experience
Sky · Osterley / Leeds
Social Media Director (FTC)
UKTV (BBC Studios) · London
Director, Homepage Programming (Weekends)
CNN · London
(Senior) Solutions Architect, Media Technology
Qvest · Germany
Senior Manager, Go-to-Market Cloud
Qvest · Germany
Infrastructure Architect & Cloud Operations Lead
Qvest · Germany
Senior Broadcast Operations Lead
Qvest · London
Technical Director, OTT Delivery
Deltatre · UK (also Italy, North Macedonia, Toronto)
Content Operations Manager
Deltatre · UK / Italy
Principal Software Engineer, Viz Mosart
Vizrt · Bergen, Norway
Senior Engineer, Network & IP
Arqiva · Winchester / hybrid UK
North America
23 rolesHead of Strategic Planning
DAZN · New York
Head of Global Research & Measurement
DAZN · New York
VP Partner Account Management
DAZN · New York
Partnerships Director, Distribution
DAZN · New York
Head of CRM
DAZN · New York
Head of Affiliates
DAZN · New York
Chief Editor
DAZN · New York
Head of Digital Media
DAZN · New York
VP, Release Planning
Disney · Glendale
VP, Data Product
Disney · Santa Monica / New York
Executive Director, Data Science
Disney · NY / Santa Monica / SF
Director, Creator Content and Partnerships
Disney · Burbank
Director, Partnerships Strategic Planning
Disney · Santa Monica
Director, Research & Analytics
ESPN · NY / Bristol CT
Director, Global Ads Product Marketing
Netflix · LA / Los Gatos
Director, Technical Program Management, Ads Foundations
Netflix · Los Gatos / NY
Director, Cloud Gaming Infrastructure
Netflix · US remote
Director, Development Production, Animation
Netflix · Burbank
Director, Global Program Management, Production Solutions
Netflix · LA
VP, Campaign Planning & Operations, Marketing
CNN · New York
Director, Product Management, AI Platforms
CNN · New York
Director, Product Management, Retention
CNN · New York
Sr. Director, Content Analytics
CNN · New York
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