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News CorpNews Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including: news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.Headquartered in New York, the activities of News Corp are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.NYC - 1211 Ave of the AmericasFull timeJob_Req_55188Job Description :Position: Director, Global Network OperationsLocation: NYC 1211 6th AvenueType: Hybrid 3 days a week in officePay Range:About the Role News Corp is seeking a Director, Global Network Operations to lead the global networkoperations function across a complex, multi-business-unit enterprise environment.
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company with businesses across news, information services, digital real estate, and book publishing. The company operates globally and supports a workforce of more than 22,000 employees across multiple regions. The Director, Global Network Operations will be responsible for leading the team that supports the reliability, resilience, performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of News Corp's enterprise network services.
This leader will supervise three regional network operations managers covering the US, EMEA, and Asia, while continuing to expand the role of India-based staff in delivering increasingly complex operational work remotely. This role requires a strong operational leader who can combine network operations expertise, vendor and carrier management, budget discipline, resilience planning, and cross-functional partnership.
The successful candidate will work closely with Network Architecture and Engineering, Project Management, Sourcing, Finance, Cybersecurity, and regional business stakeholders to ensure that global network services are stable, secure, observable, scalable, and aligned to business needs. The Director will also serve as a member of the Infrastructure Operations leadership team and will contribute to broader global infrastructure strategies, operating model improvements, service maturity, and transformation initiatives.
Job Responsibilities Global Team Leadership & Operations: Lead, mentor, and supervise regional Network Operations managers (across North America, EMEA, and APAC), and the global delivery team in India, establishing operational consistency, clear accountability, service level standards, and high performance across distributed global teams.Resiliency, Redundancy & Observability: Drive strategy and operational execution for network resiliency, redundancy, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance; assess, deploy, and leverage emerging AI/AIOps tools and telemetry platforms to enable proactive incident prevention, rapid MTTR, and robust network security.Financial Oversight & Budget Management: Oversee and manage the global network operational budget, conducting continuous cost rationalization, tracking spend against forecasts, and ensuring maximum business value from all infrastructure investments.Strategic Vendor & Partner Management: Forge and maintain strong strategic partnerships with hardware vendors, telecommunications carriers, and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to negotiate mutually beneficial agreements, enforce strict SLAs, and drive ongoing business value.Portfolio & Delivery Alignment: Collaborate closely with Project Management, Sourcing, and Finance to oversee the network project portfolio, control capital and operational spend, and ensure on-time, on-budget delivery of global network initiatives.Architecture & Engineering Collaboration: Work in close partnership with the Global Head of Network Architecture and Engineering to maintain strategic alignment, ensure operational viability of new technical designs, s