Director, Living Room Apps Engineering - Fox Corporation

OVERVIEW OF THE COMPANY

JOB DESCRIPTION

Fox Corporation is home to industry-leading brands including FOX News Media, FOX Sports, FOX Entertainment, FOX Television Stations, and Tubi Media Group. We combine innovative technology, deep data insights, and world-class content to shape the future of digital entertainment. Our DTC platforms are built to deliver highly personalized, scalable user experiences to millions of global users.

ABOUT THE ROLE

FOX Corporation is looking for an experienced Director, Living Room to lead our Living Room engineering organization responsible for building high-quality, scalable, and reliable Connected TV (CTV) applications across multiple platforms including Apple tvOS, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku, and other emerging devices. You will be responsible for defining the engineering strategy, building and scaling high-performing teams, and driving technical excellence across FOX's Living Room ecosystem.

Our Living Room engineering organization is responsible for delivering premium streaming experiences that reach millions of viewers across Connected TV devices worldwide. We leverage modern technologies, cloud-native services, and platform-specific capabilities to build intuitive, high-performance applications that provide a seamless viewing experience. With a strong emphasis on engineering excellence, scalability, video playback performance, and platform consistency, the team continuously evolves FOX's Living Room platforms to support future business growth and innovation.

As the Director, Living Room, you will provide strategic and technical leadership across multiple engineering teams responsible for developing and maintaining FOX's Connected TV applications. You will partner closely with Product, Design, Architecture, Backend Engineering, Data, QA, DevOps, and executive leadership to define the technology roadmap, deliver strategic initiatives, and foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

A SNAPSHOT OF YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead and grow multiple Living Room engineering teams responsible for applications across Apple tvOS, Android TV, Fire TV and Roku.

Define and execute the engineering strategy and multi-year technology roadmap for FOX's Living Room platforms.

Drive architectural decisions that improve platform scalability, application performance, reliability, security, and maintainability.

Establish engineering best practices for software architecture, code quality, testing, CI/CD, release management, observability, and operational excellence.

Partner closely with Product, UX Design, Backend Engineering, Data, QA, DevOps, and Platform teams to deliver strategic business initiatives.

Lead organizational planning including hiring, talent development, succession planning, performance management, and team growth.