Sr. Digital Producer

Houston Rockets -- Toyota Center•Houston, TX

About The Position

The Houston Rockets are seeking a creative, talented, dedicated, and driven professional with at least four years of video and post-production experience, primarily in the sports and entertainment industry. The Sr. Digital Producer helps supervise the digital experience at Rockets home games and covers the team on the road. The role films, produces, and edits live, entertaining, timely content for digital platforms in a fast-paced production environment. The producer also creates, animates, and edits daily team content, player features, recaps, highlights, promos, and commercials for streaming services, apps, and social media. Work is delivered from start to finish quickly and efficiently, often under tight deadlines, for the Rockets and their partners. The position works with marketing, production, and social teams and supervises videographers and contractors during gamedays.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major coursework in film, broadcast, or communications, or equivalent experience.
At least four years of professional editing experience for a sports team or post-production house.
Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication, and organizational skills.
Ability to work nights, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Solid experience with digital technology and editing software, including Avid Media Composer, Premiere, and After Effects.
Live production or control-room experience.
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments under pressure.
Comfort working in a fast-paced, time-sensitive department.
Ability to travel.
Physical ability to stand, sit, walk, handle or feel, reach, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl, and communicate with others.
Ability to review written and electronic materials in digital and physical formats.
Ability to transfer and move items for departmental needs.
Ability to adjust to changing work hours and locations as needed.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with 3D and compositing.
Ability to assist in shooting.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate the One Team philosophy of Passion, Accountability, Customer Focus, and Teamwork.
Travel with the team to cover, film, and produce content for away games.
Cover, film, and 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 and ensure their work meets company standards.
Conduct quality-control checks to ensure videos follow branding guidelines, visual style, and technical standards.
Stay current with team storylines, social media trends, topics, and pop culture, and develop innovative ideas and concepts.
Produce social media content, features, recaps, promos, hype videos, highlight packages, Instagram reels and stories, and corporate-sponsored elements.
Collaborate with marketing, production, and social teams to create video content for Rockets fans, partners, and Landry's worldwide.
Serve as a primary producer for player features, highlight recaps, sponsor features, and other video projects.
Contribute digital and in-arena content ideas that elevate the Rockets brand.
Develop original video content for existing and potential fans and partners, and for Landry's, across a variety of mediums.
Create national-level commercials, features, and videos from new and existing footage for specific audiences and multiple platforms.
Take requests, develop original concepts, work with existing footage, and produce finished pieces from start to finish with little outside assistance.
Apply visual storytelling skills to engage viewers across multiple mediums.
Develop ideas, storyboards, and pitches that meet budget and schedule requirements.
Use color correction, audio mastering, and appropriate codecs.
Help build, log, and maintain the digital video library.
Use storytelling skills for commercial-length and short- or medium-format content.
Understand NBA basketball, game strategy, franchise history, and related brands including the Comets, Landry's, Fertitta Entertainment, and Golden Nugget.
Work positively both independently and collaboratively.