Content Operations, Production

WORK OPTION: In Office

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 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents.  NBA rosters at the start of the 2023-24 season featured a record 125 international players from 40 countries and territories.  NBA Digital’s 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 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms.  NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness. 
 

Position Summary:
The primary role of this position is to support media management requirements for team local productions. This includes scheduling, tracking, media management, transcoding, and distribution of content. They will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day media requirements, including distribution of content (features, highlights, promos, etc.) to the local production team and acquisition/archiving of any content that is captured or created in the trucks, including digital melts, interviews, features, etc. This person will also be involved in design, development, and maintenance of workflows for content management and delivery.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develop new and efficient operational workflows to support local productions
• Oversee staff supporting media acquisition, transcoding and distribution for all raw and finished content coming in and being distributed out of the facility specifically for local production.
• Facilitating the delivery of game broadcasts for cue sheet creation and music usage reporting.
• Work closely with Broadcast Operations and Media Technology teams to develop new standard operating procedures and documentation for all workflows involving content acquisition, quality control, and archiving of content intended for local production.
• Leverage league content taxonomies to organize this content appropriately in our Asset Library.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Mac OSX support, SAN appliance and file system support, Adobe Creative Cloud Applications Support
• Digital Video Encoding and Transcoding 
• Specific experience using Telestream Vantage and other encoding and transcoding experience a plus
• Strong leadership and communication skills
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with the ability to multi-task.

Experience Needed:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in media management, content production, or other related fields.
• 3-5 years managerial experience
• 3-5 years related experience supporting Mac OSX, SAN Appliances and File Systems, Adobe Creative Cloud Applications Support
• Experience working with transcoding software

Educational Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree Preferred - (Media Production, Communications, Film, Digital Media, or related field from accredited college or university a plus)

Salary Range: $95,000 - $110,000 

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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 215 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 2021-22 season featured a record 121 international players from 40 countries.  NBA Digital’s 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 2.1 billion likes and followers globally across all league, team, and player platforms.  Through NBA Cares, the league addresses important social issues by working with internationally recognized youth-serving organizations that support education, youth and family development, and health-related causes.