Senior Producer – Live Racing
Auckland | Full time | Tuesday to Saturday | Exciting perks
Lead the production of high-quality live racing coverage across Trackside.
Why This Matters
At Entain, you’ll join a global sports betting, gaming and entertainment business behind well-known brands such as Ladbrokes and neds in Australia, and Trackside, TAB, betcha, and Sport Nation in New Zealand. We’re an ambitious, customer-focused organisation where our talented people move fast, think boldly and create experiences that excite millions of customers.
Trackside is New Zealand’s premier racing broadcaster, delivering live thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing coverage across the country and internationally. Our production team plays a vital role in bringing the excitement, information and stories of racing to life.
As a Senior Producer, you’ll work closely with the Executive Producer to lead the delivery of live racing content across Trackside channels. Combining racing and wagering knowledge with editorial judgement, production expertise and people leadership, you’ll help shape daily coverage, feature carnivals, major race days and Trackside’s on-air and social presentation.
Your Day with Trackside
As our Senior Producer, you’ll lead the editorial and production delivery of live racing coverage while supporting the development of the wider Production team. Here’s a snapshot of your day:
- Lead the delivery of accurate and engaging live racing coverage across Trackside channels
- Produce current programming and identify opportunities for new shows, features and content
- Plan and deliver content for feature carnivals, blue-riband events and major race days, including line producing at the track
- Prepare accurate daily rundowns and promotional content plans, ensuring production teams have clear direction
- Coach and develop producers while working closely with internal teams, broadcast partners and racing stakeholders
This is an Auckland-based role working Tuesday to Saturday. The position will include rostered weekend work, feature race days and other operational requirements associated with live racing production. Some flexibility to work from home may be available.
What You’ll Bring
- Extensive knowledge of racing and wagering, including racing codes, participants, venues, form, betting products, markets and wagering audiences
- Proven experience producing or leading live television, sports, racing or similarly fast-paced content
- People-leadership experience, including coaching and developing producers or other production team members
- Strong communication, presentation and relationship-building skills, across racing, production, editorial and technical teams
- Excellent organisation, attention to detail and resilience, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
- A strong sense of ownership, with the confidence to make sound decisions when plans change or pressure increases
Nice to Have
These are a bonus, so if you don’t have them all, we’d still like to hear from you.
- Experience planning and delivering major or blue-riband race days, including outside broadcast production
- Strong storytelling and programming capability, with experience developing features, interviews, programmes or other compelling content
- Experience improving production workflows and standards while developing more accurate and engaging producers
What You’ll Gain
- People: Join a relaxed, experienced and passionate team that values collaboration, high standards and shared ownership
- Leadership: Lead and develop a skilled production team while strengthening your own leadership capability
- Exposure: Work closely with racing codes, participants, presenters, commentators, broadcast crews, wagering teams and external production partners
- Growth: Build deeper expertise across live television, outside broadcast, programming, social content and racing production
- Perks: Enjoy competitive pay, retailer discounts, wellbeing support, personal days off, free breakfast and snacks, and a modern office with pool tables and sport on TV
There’s nothing like it.
Your Next Move
Apply now or contact [email protected] if you’d like more information.
Once you’ve applied, our Talent team will assess your application and keep you updated. If your application progresses, next steps may include a Talent team conversation, hiring team interviews or a role-related task. This gives us the chance to get to know each other, talk through the role and answer your questions.
We welcome applications from people with different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives. If you need any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.
Due to the wagering aspect of our industry, applicants must be at least 18 years old to apply.
Skills Required
- Extensive knowledge of racing and wagering, including racing codes, participants, venues, form, betting products, markets, and wagering audiences
- Proven experience producing or leading live television, sports, racing, or similarly fast-paced content
- People leadership experience, including coaching and developing producers or production team members
- Strong communication, presentation, and relationship-building skills across racing, production, editorial, and technical teams
- Excellent organization, attention to detail, resilience, and ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
- Confidence to make sound decisions when plans change or pressure increases
- Experience planning and delivering major or blue-riband race days, including outside broadcast production
- Strong storytelling and programming capability, including features, interviews, programmes, or other compelling content
- Experience improving production workflows and standards while developing producers
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Feedback suggests the package includes structured wellbeing programs and extra paid days such as Entain & Enhance days and an “It’s Your Game” day. Everyday perks like free meals, snacks, and coffee add lifestyle value in some sites.
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What We Do
Welcome to Entain. Our journey as Entain began when we evolved from GVC Holdings on 9th December 2020, but our brands have been paving the way and making history since the 1880s. Today, we’re one of the world’s largest sports betting and gaming entertainment groups – a FTSE 100 company that is home to more than 25 widely recognised brands, such as bwin, Coral, Foxy, Gala, Ladbrokes and partypoker. But that’s just the beginning. We’re constantly broadening our horizons and expanding our global influence. For example, our partnership with MGM Resorts International has allowed us to make waves in the US by powering BetMGM with our bespoke and top-of-the-line technology. It’s with this unique technology that we’re revolutionising our industry, and we’re boldly working towards being THE world leader in sports betting, gaming and interactive entertainment. Really though, it’s the people that truly make us who we are. There’s over 24,000 of us around the world and counting, but we all play for the same team. We’re proud to promote a culture that shatters barriers to unite, and encourages uncompromised diversity of background, thought and experience. When we win, we win together. If you share our values and want to be part of the revolution, we want you on our team. With offices across 19 different countries, we have an excellent history of identifying and nurturing the finest talent on a global scale. We’re all about putting our customers at the heart of the action and, with us, you can help bring moments of excitement into people’s lives. At Entain, it’s your game. We’re ready to play – are you?
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