Sr. Digital Gameday Producer

This is a Full Time Job

GENERAL DESCRIPTION:
The Houston Rockets are seeking a creative, talented, dedicated, and driven professional with at least 4 years of video & post-production experience primarily in the sports & entertainment industry. In this role you will supervise the gameday digital experience of all Houston Rockets home games. You will have a knack for producing & editing live, entertaining, & trendy content that will be shared quickly across various digital platforms in a fast-paced, efficient production environment.

In addition to home gameday duties, you will also possess the ability to produce, animate, and edit daily original entertaining content, player features, highlights, promos, commercials, and deliver it via streaming services, apps, and social media platforms from start to finish, quickly and efficiently, while meeting tight deadlines for the Houston Rockets and our partners as needed.

RESPONSIBILITIES include but are not limited to:
• Demonstrate our One Team philosophy of Passion, Accountability, Customer Focus, and Teamwork.
• Develop and supervise gameday schedules, assignments, & timelines to ensure that digital coverage is maximized.
• Supervise videographers and contractors during gamedays to ensure that all work meets the company's standards.
• Conduct quality control checks on all videos to ensure that they meet the company's branding guidelines, visual style, and technical standards.
• Stay up to date with current team storylines, social media trends, topics, and pop culture references along with striving to come up with new innovative ideas, and concepts.
• Edit social media features, promos, hypes, highlight packages, Instagram stories/reels, corporate sponsored elements.
• Work closely with marketing, production, & social team to build compelling video content for Rockets fans, our partners, and Landry's worldwide.
• Serve as primary editor for videos including player features, intro videos, highlight recaps, sponsor features, and other miscellaneous items.
• Contribute compelling content ideas for digital and in-arena that elevate the Rockets brand.
• Develop original video content for existing and potential fans, our partners, and Landry's over a variety of mediums.
• Create national level commercials, features, and videos from existing and new footage to target specific audiences, and multi-platform use.
• Able to take requests, concept original ideas, work with existing footage, and turn them into highly produced pieces from start to finish with little need for outside help.
• Visual storytelling skills: knowing how to captivate viewers across multiple mediums.
• High level understanding of ideation, storyboards, and pitching ideas that are within budget and on time.
• Understand color correction, audio mastering, and use of different codecs.
• Help build, log, and maintain digital video library.
• Use storytelling skills for both commercial length and short/medium format content.
• Understand Basketball/NBA and the history of the franchise, and other verticals, such as Landry's, Fertitta Ent., and Golden Nugget brands.
• Understand NBA basketball and game strategy.
• Ability to work both independently and in a collaborative environment.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university with major coursework in film/broadcast/communications or equal experience.
• A minimum of 4 years of professional editing experience for a sports team or post house.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal/written communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays required as needed.
• Solid experience with digital technology and editing software packages (Avid Media Composer, Premiere, After Effects).
• Familiarity with 3D and compositing are a plus.
• Live production/control experience.
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments under pressure.
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, time-sensitive department.
• Ability to assist in shooting a plus.
• Some travel may be required.

PHYSICAL & MENTAL REQUIREMENTS:
• The employee is regularly required to stand, sit, walk, use handle or feel, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, communicate with others.
• The vision requirement includes the ability to review written and electronic materials in both digital and physical format.
• The employee must be able to transfer and move items for departmental needs.
• The employee must be able to adjust to changing work hours and locations as needed in light of the strong focus on external communications and relationships.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.