Senior Video Editor - Social & Digital Content

About the role

This position is part of the NBA Social & Digital Content team, focusing on creating and distributing compelling content across various social and digital platforms. The role offers opportunities to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative environment, producing content that reaches fans globally.

Responsibilities

• Edit social-first short-form, vertical, and real-time video content incorporating strong storytelling, pacing, music, and sound design.
• Provide real-time game and event coverage by editing content for NBA's nightly, weekly, and tentpole social and digital programming.
• Collaborate with producers, content creators, publishers, designers, and other editors to identify and produce 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 such as TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, Snapchat, and other emerging platforms.
• Consult and advise on the overall creative look and visual identity of programs, recurring content franchises, and special projects.
• Provide creative input during content planning, preproduction, production, and postproduction processes.
• Supervise, mentor, and train editors and other junior members of the editorial team.
• Help establish and maintain editing standards, workflows, project organization practices, quality-control procedures, and delivery specifications.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• Able to provide creative direction and advise on the overall look and feel of programs and content franchises.
• Able to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a precise and detail-oriented approach.
• Able 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.
• Able 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.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• 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.
• Able to provide creative direction and advise on the overall look and feel of programs and content franchises.
• Able to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a precise and detail-oriented approach.
• Able 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.
• Able to receive, interpret, and execute feedback while maintaining established creative and technical standards.

Benefits

The NBA offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and group term life insurance, dependent care assistance, and a 401(k) retirement plan. The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace, requiring full vaccination against COVID-19 for onsite employees in New York and New Jersey offices.

Pay

$31.65/hr

Schedule

Flexible schedule, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays, based on the NBA calendar.