Vertical Video Editor, Social & Digital Content

NBE NBA Entertainment; Secaucus (NJ); On-site; USD 34,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The NBA's Social & Digital Content team is seeking a Vertical Video Editor to craft social-first vertical content from live NBA footage for platforms like TikTok and Reels.

You will edit real-time game coverage, collaborate across producers, editors, and designers, and ensure timely publishing across domestic and international partners while keeping up with evolving platform formats.

Qualifications

• Extensive professional experience editing social-first short-form content for a sports brand or entertainment entity.
• Advanced proficiency with Premiere Pro and other NLEs.
• Strong skills in audio mixing, color correction, and final delivery.

Responsibilities

• Edit social-first vertical and real-time video content with strong storytelling, pacing, and sound design.
• Provide real-time game coverage by editing content for nightly, weekly, and tentpole social programming.
• Collaborate with producers, editors, designers, and publishers to identify and craft compelling moments from NBA games and events.
• Finish and composite NBA programming using high-end editing tools.
• Create content for vertical platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, and more.
• Manage multiple projects with tight deadlines while maintaining high quality.

Skills

Video editing

Storytelling

Time management

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications/Film/Media Production

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

Non-linear editing systems

Job description

WORK OPTION: In Office

This position is within a unionized bargaining unit and union membership will be required. Assignment end dates are tentative and subject to change.

Position Summary

This position is part of the NBA Social & Digital Content team, which focuses on identifying, creating, distributing, and publishing compelling content across the NBA’s social and digital platforms and to its many domestic and international partners around the world. As demand for NBA content continues to grow, this role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and highly collaborative environment, creating content that reaches fans globally.

Vertical Video Editor Responsibilities

• Edit social-first short-form, vertical, and real-time video content that incorporates strong storytelling, pacing, music, and sound design.
• Provide real-time game and event coverage by editing content for the NBA’s nightly, weekly, and tentpole social and digital programming.
• May include working days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Collaborate with producers, content creators, publishers, designers, and other editors to identify and produce the most compelling moments from NBA games, events, and league storylines.
• Finish and composite NBA programming using non-linear editing systems at a high level.
• Create content for vertical video platforms, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, Snapchat and other current or emerging platforms.
• Manage multiple projects and competing deadlines while maintaining a consistently high level of creative and technical quality.
• Incorporate feedback from producers, senior leaders, league stakeholders, and platform partners efficiently and effectively.
• Stay current on editing techniques, industry and platform trends, social storytelling formats, emerging technologies, and changes in fan-content consumption.
• Assist with content publishing and additional Social & Digital Content team responsibilities, as needed.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Extensive professional experience editing social-first short-form content for a sports brand, media organization, production company, or entertainment brand.
• Advanced proficiency with professional non-linear editing systems, preferably Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Strong proficiency in compositing, audio mixing and sweetening, color correction, media management, quality control, and final content delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to produce highly polished video content involving narrative structure, character development, and a defined storyline.
• Strong understanding of creating content for vertical platforms.
• Experience creating basketball or sports-related content.
• Strong knowledge of the NBA and passion for the storylines surrounding its players, coaches, teams, statistics, standings, and league history.
• Excellent understanding of basketball rules, terminology, statistics, analytics, and the history of the game.
• Strong understanding of the NBA’s social voice, visual identity, and audience.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a precise and detail-oriented approach.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment while handling critical and time-sensitive assignments in a composed manner.
• Excellent organizational, project-management, and communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with producers, editors, designers, content creators, publishers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to receive, interpret, and execute feedback while maintaining established creative and technical standards.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays, based on the NBA calendar.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Film, Television, Media Production, or a related field preferred.

Salary Range

$29.76/hr

Benefits and EEO

Project Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in Union-sponsored employee benefit programs that include medical, dental, vision, disability, and group term life insurance, dependent care assistance, and a 401(k) retirement plan.

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.

About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2026-27 season featured 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries across six continents. The NBA's digital assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.5 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. The NBA's Tap to Watch provides seamless access to local, national and global live game telecasts via the NBA App, NBA.com, third-party digital platforms and NBA partner platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA's global social impact platform, drives change on issues facing fans and communities in the areas of health and wellness, civic engagement, social justice and inclusion, and sustainability. At the NBA, we're passionate about growing and celebrating the game of basketball. Through the intensity of the game and the amazing athletic skill of our players, we deliver excitement to hundreds of millions of fans around the world. As a global sports and media business, the NBA is so much more. While Basketball Operations runs the league's on-court activities, other departments manage relationships with television and digital media partners, develop marketing partnerships with some of the world's most recognizable companies, oversee the licensing of NBA merchandise, and handle a wide range of responsibilities that drive the NBA's success. Off the court, we're also deeply committed to social responsibility. NBA Cares leads the league's involvement in addressing important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.