Chicago Sky – Senior Manager, Video Production
The Chicago Sky are looking for a strategic, innovative, collaborative, creative, and results-driven full-time Senior Manager, Video Production to create, produce, edit, and execute digital content across gameplay, practices, press conferences, and events for use across social media, website, app, and newsletter channels, paid media, broadcast features, community/special events, and in-game presentation. Expected salary range, dependent upon qualifications and experience: $60,000-$70,000.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
This candidate should be passionate about women's sports, championing equality, and generating breakthrough digital content and creative storytelling ideas to drive Chicago Sky awareness, fan engagement, and loyalty.
Responsibilities
- Capture content on gamedays at ALL home games and away games, including gameplay, highlights, fan content, sponsorship activations, and videoboard content.
- Capture and edit short and long form content to be featured on Chicago Sky social media channels, including but not limited to, interviews, sponsored videos, community events, press conferences, and social media videos.
- Coordinate activities associated with in-game programming on the video boards, including but not limited to production and loading of video content.
- Stay up-to-date with emerging trends and best practices in video production to enhance the team’s video content.
- Capture, edit, and archive footage from gamedays and events.
- Lead brainstorming sessions and generate breakthrough creative storytelling, activation, community, and game day fan engagement concepts to drive Sky awareness and fan engagement.
- Conduct interviews with players, partners, and team members to drive storytelling
- Partner closely with Partnership Marketing, Graphic Design, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Corporate Partnerships, Tickets, and Community Departments.
- Attend all 22 home games and travel on the road with the team for up to 22 away games.
Qualifications
- 3-5+ years of digital content, video/film production and editing.
- High level knowledge of cinema camera operation, set lighting and postproduction software (preferably Adobe Premiere.)
- Strong portfolio of sports-related video content.
- Evidence of strong creativity, innovation, and idea generation.
- Ability to prioritize and focus on multiple projects being developed concurrently.
- Comfortable taking risks and the initiative in an entrepreneurial environment.
- College degree in marketing, video production, sports marketing or a related field.
- Passionate about storytelling, sports marketing, with an interest in women's sports and the WNBA.
- Strong leadership and teamwork skills.
- Great communicator who enjoys presenting to, interacting with, and incorporating feedback from key stakeholders.
- Energetic, flexible, self-starter who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, with and without direct supervision.
- Strong writing, editing, design, and proofreading skills.
- Hybrid role: 2 days/week expected in office, with attendance at all 22 home games, road games, practices, and some weekends/evenings. https://sky.wnba.com/schedule.
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.
