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SVP, Alternative Unscripted

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Join us at Paramount Sports Entertainment, a division of Paramount that unifies the company’s premium sports storytelling across film, television, live events, gaming, and interactive experiences.

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Join us at Paramount Sports Entertainment, a division of Paramount that unifies the company’s premium sports storytelling across film, television, live events, gaming, and interactive experiences. A cornerstone of the division is Skydance Sports, based Santa Monica, the industry-leading sports content studio behind acclaimed scripted and unscripted projects created in partnership with the world’s top athletes, leagues, and storytellers.

Known for standout projects such as Air, Hard Knocks: Offseason with the New York Giants, and America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys, Skydance Sports continues to build a bold slate of films, series, and documentaries featuring some of the most influential figures and institutions in sports, including the WWE, the University of Connecticut women’s basketball program, Rafael Nadal, and Deion Sanders.

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PSE, a Skydance Corporation, is seeking an SVP of Alternative Unscripted to oversee creative development and sales strategy for lifestyle, competition, structured formats and other alternative unscripted projects in the sports and sports-adjacent space. This leader will help build the division’s identity, establish scalable creative development systems, and ensure that every project meets the highest editorial and operational standards. The role requires a blend of creative vision, sales expertise, and team‑building ability to grow a slate that complements the company’s premium sports scripted and unscripted pedigree while reaching new audiences.

Oversee end‑to‑end development and sales of Alternative Unscripted series slate, from ideation and development through pitch and sales negotiation, as well as work closely with PSE production team to ensure premium execution of projects

Build a diverse slate of projects that leverage the company’s sports DNA while expanding into new genres such as competition, docu‑soap, food, dating, travel and live events

Source potential material for unscripted programming and hybrid formats that align with brand while expanding into broader entertainment categories

Oversee and create compelling, cost-effective development materials and sizzle reels

Hire, manage, and mentor showrunners, executive producers, directors, out-of-company experts and production teams across multiple concurrent series

Establish production workflows, budgeting systems, scheduling processes, and quality controls for development that scale with the division’s growth

Collaborate closely with Production, Finance and Post, Editorial, and Post to translate concepts into executable, compelling development materials and projects

Maintain strong relationships with networks, streamers, agencies, global distributors, and production partners to position the company as a go‑to reality supplier

Ensure all productions comply with legal, safety, union, and network/streamer requirements

Guide long‑term strategy for building a repeatable, exportable formats catalog that can scale globally

20+ years of experience in reality, unscripted, competition/games television programming

Extensive leadership experience in unscripted TV, ideally with a track record of selling and/or executing premium series for major networks or streamers

Deep understanding of unscripted production logistics, budgeting, staffing, and creative problem‑solving

Strong marketplace instincts and the ability to shape concepts into high‑impact, commercially viable series

Proven success developing, managing, or selling unscripted formats in domestic and/or international markets, a plus

Experience with rights negotiations, licensing, and international distribution, a plus

Experience working with sports talent or sports‑adjacent storytelling is a strong plus

Proven ability to build and lead high‑performing production teams in a fast‑scaling environment

Strong industry relationships across buyers, agencies, and production partners

Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills

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Posted: March 6, 2026
First seen: April 13, 2026
Last seen: May 5, 2026

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Skydance Media is a diversified media company founded in 2010 by David Ellison to create high-quality, event-level entertainment for global audiences.

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