
President & General Manager - KGO
Detalles del empleo:
Disney Entertainment’s eight owned ABC stations are multiplatform leaders in local news and information. Emmy® Award-winning station KGO-TV ABC7 is the San Francisco Bay Area’s source for breaking news, weather and live video. Widely recognized for its solution-based promise to help the Bay Area communities, the station’s initiative “Building a Better Bay Area” dedicates more time, resources and reporting to the issues that impact its viewers’ quality of life. From the local economy and education, to health and safety, to issues impacting the environment, ABC7’s focus is to bring greater perspective on the challenges currently facing neighborhoods. KGO-TV is an ABC owned television station serving San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and all of the greater Bay Area.
The President and General Manager of KGO-TV is responsible for leading and advancing the local owned ABC television station in the San Francisco Bay Area market, managing the strategies and teams that drive audience and growth across platforms.
This executive will be at the center of KGO-TV’s future success, upholding our commitment to quality journalism and the communities we serve while driving modernization across the organization, prioritizing an adaptable and inclusive culture that embraces change and innovation.
The General Manager will have a clear vision for the future of KGO-TV with the capability of communicating and executing that vision via hands-on leadership, optimism, strategic risk-taking and focused metrics of success. He or she will be a creative thinker who generates new ideas and understands how to maximize brands and resources to achieve market leadership. This includes developing strategies which evolve the KGO-TV brand from not only being the place to go for breaking news, but also where consumers can expect to find localized high quality, high impact journalism and content.
This executive will also work directly with the ABC Owned Stations leadership, and other businesses within Disney Entertainment Television as well as The Walt Disney Company to drive collective growth and success.
Responsibilities:
- Direct and manage the overall operations to drive "ethical results" (meet or exceed KPIs) including established goals/objectives in ratings, audience, video, sales/revenue, market share, profit and operating income.
- Oversee and evolve the brand to maximize its impact, relevancy and connection with local audiences.
- In collaboration with appropriate executives, develop and implement a content strategy that attracts and engages audiences across platforms.
- Lead a premium multi-platform news organization including a vast and diverse team of talent across many roles and disciplines.
- Oversight of the station's 24/7 broadcast and quality/technical requirements.
- Grow and develop unified CTV strategies to create/aggregate content for streaming platforms.
- Drive business and partnership development efforts to drive modernization and further group goals.
- Continue to identify more effective and efficient approaches to operations and processes throughout the organization.
- Represent the station in the community; develop and maintain strong relationships with community leaders.
- Seek out opportunities to contribute to the local market area for the betterment of the community.
- Recruit, develop, and retain a strong leadership team; provide guidance and coaching to maximize their performance and accelerate their professional growth.
- Champion data and analytics to drive multi-platform content, product and platform optimization as well as accountability across the organization.
- Execute all corporate policies/objectives while maintaining the highest level of ethics and industry standards.
- Establish and maintain an innovative and highly collaborative culture atmosphere that promotes novel idea generation, open communication, respect for others and excellence.
- Create a diverse, collaborative, fun and stimulating work environment.
- Collaborate with other parts of OTV, Walt Disney Television and TWDC to advance the group’s interests and leverage assets.
Basic Qualifications:
- Proven experience as a leader at a local broadcast station.
- A participative leadership approach that fosters collaboration and innovation.
- Ability to recognize, create and communicate priorities, strategies, market opportunities and challenges to drive growth and performance improvement.
- Attention to detail, project management skills, and the ability to effectively lead and manage in a dynamic and challenging environment.
- Experience managing budgeting processes and strategic planning.
- Strong written, verbal and presentation skills.
- Legal understanding of FCC rules and regulations.
- Experience working with unions and contract negotiations.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Senior leadership experience working in a top market/station, and television group.
- Experience leading large executive teams.
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
The hiring range for this position in San Francisco, CA is $412,000 - $552,500 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.
Acerca de ABC Owned TV Stations:
El grupo Disney Entertainment Television crea contenido original de entretenimiento y noticias para las plataformas de streaming de la compañía y sus redes de cable y difusión.
Acerca de The Walt Disney Company:
The Walt Disney Company, junto con sus subsidiarias y afiliadas, es una empresa internacional diversificada líder en entretenimiento familiar y medios de comunicación que incluye tres segmentos comerciales principales: Disney Entertainment, ESPN y Disney Experiences. Desde sus humildes comienzos como estudio de dibujos animados en la década de 1920 hasta su reconocido nombre en la industria del entretenimiento en la actualidad, Disney continúa con orgullo su legado de crear historias y experiencias de clase mundial para toda la familia. Las historias, los personajes y las experiencias de Disney llegan a consumidores e invitados de todos los rincones del mundo. Con operaciones en más de 40 países, nuestros empleados y miembros del elenco trabajan juntos para crear experiencias de entretenimiento que sean apreciadas a nivel local y global.
Este puesto es en KGO Television, Inc, que forma parte de una empresa comercial que denominamos ABC Owned TV Stations.
KGO Television, Inc es un empleador que ofrece igualdad de oportunidades. Los solicitantes recibirán consideración para el empleo independientemente de su raza, religión, color, sexo, orientación sexual, género, identidad de género, expresión de género, nacionalidad, ascendencia, edad, estado civil, condición de militar o veterano, afección médica, información genética o discapacidad, o cualquier otro fundamento prohibido por la ley federal, estatal o local. Disney defiende un entorno empresarial donde las ideas y decisiones de todas las personas nos ayudan a crecer, innovar, crear las mejores historias y ser relevantes en un mundo en constante evolución.
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