Media Platform Team Lead

Quick Facts

• Role: Media Platform Team Lead

• Team size: ~16 employees

• Focus area: Production workflow (broadcast production workflow) in the Technology Department

• Work location: Oslo (in-office 4–5 days/week)

Description

Lead a product team responsible for operational support, design, implementation, and further development of broadcasting technical infrastructure that enables content production and publishing. NRK’s production platform is transitioning from broadcasting-specific niche technology to IP-based solutions, virtualization, and private cloud. You will guide the team toward its goals, ensure collaboration and delivery flow, coordinate with other teams, manage external suppliers, and report status to the wider organization.

Responsibilities

• Work across teams in close collaboration with product management

• Understand and communicate team goals and ambitions; lead the team in that direction

• Enable collaboration, delivery flow, and progress; adjust as the team learns

• Actively work with collaboration and psychological safety within teams

• Follow up team processes and team activities in cooperation with product management

• Ensure close collaboration with other teams

• Continuously develop internal and external ways of collaborating according to team needs

• Follow up on external vendors and advisors working closely with the section

• Ensure reporting to the rest of the organization

Requirements

• In-person presence in NRK’s Oslo offices (4–5 days/week)

• Fluent Norwegian (written and spoken) and strong English (written and spoken)

• Minimum 3 years as a team lead for cross-functional teams with developers/technologists and designers

• Minimum 2 years leading cross-functional teams developing and configuring media production systems (e.g., broadcast control systems or intercom)

• Agile mindset with ability to adapt methodology to team and context

• Proven delivery responsibility for agile cross-functional teams

• Experience with goal management for cross-functional teams (e.g., OKR)

Benefits

• Opportunity to lead a major transformation of a media production platform toward an IP-based, virtualized, private-cloud architecture