Sr. Digital Producer

Houston Rockets; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Houston Rockets is seeking a creative, talented video producer with 4+ years of post-production experience in sports/entertainment. You will supervise the gameday digital experience for home games and cover road events, filming, producing, and editing content for fast-paced distribution across social platforms and streaming services.

The role also involves creating daily top-performing content, player features, recaps, promos, and multi-platform assets, collaborating with marketing, production,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in film, broadcast, communications or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years of professional editing for a sports team or post house.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal/written communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to work nights, weekends and holidays as needed.
• Proficient with Avid Media Composer, Premiere, After Effects.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate our One Team philosophy of Passion, Accountability, Customer Focus, and Teamwork.
• Travel, cover, film, and produce team content on the road for away games.
• Cover, film, produce team content for home games.
• Follow and help supervise gameday schedules, assignments, and timelines to maximize digital coverage.
• Supervise videographers and contractors during gamedays to ensure work meets standards.
• Quality control checks on all videos to meet branding, visual style, and technical standards.
• Stay up to date with team storylines, social media trends, and pop culture references; brainstorm new ideas.
• Produce top performing social media content, features, recaps, promos, hypes, highlight packages, and Instagram content.
• Collaborate with marketing, production, and social teams to build compelling Rockets content for fans and partners.
• Serve as a primary producer for player features, highlights, sponsor features, and miscellaneous items.
• Contribute content ideas for digital and in-arena to elevate the Rockets brand.
• Develop original video content for fans, partners, and Landry’s across platforms.
• Create national level commercials and features from existing and new footage for various audiences.

Skills

Video editing

Live production

Storytelling

Social media content

Education

Bachelor's degree in film/broadcast/communications

Tools

Avid Media Composer

Premiere Pro

After Effects

Job description

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 help supervise the gameday digital experience of all Houston Rockets home games, as well as help cover the team on the road. You will have a knack for filming, 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 and road duties, you will also possess the ability to produce, animate, and edit daily top performing team content, player features, recaps, 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.
• Travel, cover, film, & produce team content on the road for away games.
• Cover, film, produce team content for home games.
• Follow and help 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.
• Produce top performing social media content, features, recaps, promos, hypes, highlight packages, Instagram reels/stories, 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 a primary producer for videos including player features, 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 Comets, Landry’s, Fertitta Ent., and Golden Nugget brands.
• Understand NBA basketball and game strategy.
• Ability to positively 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.
• Travel is 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.