Storytelling is, and will always be, the heart of what we do at Skydance.
Our vision is to build a thriving entertainment ecosystem where stories and worlds are imagined, brought to life and experienced. We create for every age and audience, anchored by the strength of our content and experiences and the depth of our connection with fans. We are creator-first, audience-focused, tech-forward, globally scaled.

Here, you’ll work with talented teams that move fast, think boldly and collaborate with purpose to deliver results. We aim high, champion the best ideas and win together, earning the trust of our employees, creators, partners and audiences every day.

If you’re energized by the opportunity to help build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, we’d be thrilled to welcome you aboard. LET’S GO!

We’re now looking for a Media Exchange Operator to join our busy Sydney station on a CASUAL basis, with hours and days varying depending on demand.

What you’ll do as a Media Exchange Operator:

You’ll combine your strong attention to detail and technical skills to ingest and prepare media for News and Production, working closely with newsroom and production staff to keep media-based operations running smoothly. Working with state-of-the-art technology in a supportive, high-morale team, you’ll have the chance to expand your skills, collaborate across business units and engage in the power of content.

This is a place where variety is the norm, teamwork is strong, and learning opportunities are everywhere.

Functions will also include:

• Ingesting media for News and Production, from local news gathering and production shoots to international satellite feeds.
• Scheduling records for News and Production, ensuring media assets are readily available within our Media Asset Management system for all our internal production teams and newsroom.
• Preparing and monitoring playout media for live studio News and Production, applying advanced workflow tools to track media through each stage of the process.
• QC of News and Production media assets, ensuring technical standards are maintained.
• Maintaining clear media metadata naming conventions and asset organisation within a vast media management system shared by a large number of users
• Maintaining archival requirements, ensuring media assets are properly kept for future use.
• Completing basic editing to prepare media for playout, or condense content where necessary.
• Liaising with newsroom and production staff, the Network Operations Centre (NOC) and acquisitions crews, ensuring all broadcast items are ready for edit when required.
• Distributing media to internal teams and external organisations, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.

What are we looking for in a Media Exchange Operator? What’s important?

• You will need to be a highly motivated self-starter who can thrive in a deadline driven environment
• Have effective communication skills with strong customer service focus.
• High attention to detail.
• Strong computer literacy and enjoy the use of new technology
• Ability to learn and adapt to continuously evolving technology, practices and procedures.
• Can work within a 24/7 day rotating roster.

Paramount embraces differences and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

We’re honoured to have been named on Diversity Council Australia’s annual list of Inclusive Employers in 2023-24 and 2024-25. This acknowledgement highlights our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued and supported.

Paramount acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia's original storytellers and the first peoples of the lands where we create, broadcast and connect. We pay our respects to their timeless stories that continue to shape Country and culture.

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10 Paramount Australia & New Zealand is a division of Paramount International Networks, which in turn is a division of Paramount Global.

Paramount is a global media & entertainment organisation with some of the best known and loved brands in the world. Employing over 1,700 people locally, and a further 25,000+ globally, we deliver premium content through multiple platforms for the young (and the young at heart of course!).

We pride ourselves on creating content that gets people talking. What’s more, you’ll find all these great shows (and more) on our free-to-air channels (10, 10 Peach, 10 Shake, 10 Bold), subscription channels (MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central), our digital platform 10 Play and our new subscription video on demand service Paramount+.

At 10 Paramount, there is no such thing as the 'perfect candidate’

Seeing responsibilities and competencies laid out on paper can be confronting. At this stage of the recruitment process, sometimes imposter syndrome can creep in and mess with our confidence.

Please know that we list these items to give you an opportunity to show us your potential and how you can grow and transform with us. Your ability to demonstrate that you have the real potential to develop the required capabilities, knowledge, and experience to perform in this role is what we would like to hear from you. Where possible, you should support your claims with specific examples of what you have done, and how you did it.

We embrace difference and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds regardless of factors such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property or birth. These grounds also include age, nationality, marital status, disability, place of residence and sexual orientation.

10 Paramount recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as Australia’s First Peoples, and the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and work. We pay our respects to Elders, past, present and emerging, and we are proud to live in a country which is home to the world’s oldest living cultures.

However you identify, and whatever your background may be, please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come into work every day!

We prioritise the health, safety and welfare of our people. As a result, we currently require all our employees who enter a 10 Paramount premises to be fully vaccinated against Covid-19 in alignment with our Vaccination Position. Please reach out with any questions or to discuss your personal circumstances.