Houston Based Short-Form Videographer

Texas Sports Academy Main • Houston, TX

10d • Onsite

About The Position

Texas Sports Academy is hiring a Houston-based Videographer to shoot and edit daily short-form video content at youth sports tournaments, practices, games, and brand events. The role owns camera work, editing, and asset-library management, producing vertical content for Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The videographer will often work independently at filming locations and serve as the primary point of contact for the school being filmed. They will coordinate with the Houston and Austin Social Media team and proactively report campus updates, including upcoming events, standout students and coaches, schedule changes, and potential story ideas. The position is contract work paying $35 per hour, for up to 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• A portfolio of short-form vertical videos personally shot and edited; sports, athletics, or lifestyle work for a brand, team, or creator is preferred.
• Experience shooting handheld in fast, unpredictable live environments, with consistent focus, framing, and exposure.
• Proficiency in Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or CapCut Pro, with a strong understanding of hooks, pacing, sound design, and platform-specific vertical-video practices.
• Strong editorial judgment, including anticipating shots, reading events in real time, and recognizing moments that will work in the edit.
• Prior experience shooting content for a team, league, club, or sports brand.
• A reliable system for media cards, backups, folder structure, and file naming.
• Own or have access to a professional camera setup, such as a mirrorless or cinema camera body, lenses, audio equipment, and basic lighting.
• Based in Houston, Texas, with reliable transportation to shoots across the Houston metro area.
• U.S. work authorization required.
• Ability to work independently and communicate clearly and proactively.

Nice To Haves

• Proficiency using AI tools in a professional editing workflow, such as Premiere Pro’s MCP integration, Claude Code, or Google Flow, to generate rough cuts, captions, and platform variations, and to review and refine outputs to a publishable standard.
• Ability to create graphics, lower thirds, and animated text in After Effects or directly in an editing application.
• Basic photography knowledge and ability to switch between photography and video when needed.
• Comfort conducting short interviews with athletes, coaches, or parents.

Responsibilities

• Capture video at youth sports tournaments, practices, games, and brand events across Houston and surrounding areas, planning coverage to produce multiple usable pieces of content.
• Record player highlights, behind-the-scenes moments, athlete and coach interviews, atmosphere, and B-roll footage.
• Edit short-form vertical Reels, TikToks, and YouTube Shorts, including pacing, sound design, captions, and on-screen text tailored to each platform.
• Organize footage, maintain file backups, and manage a searchable archive of raw and edited assets.
• Track social trends, viral formats, and editing techniques and apply them to content.
• Deliver same-day or next-day edits of event content.
• Act as the main point of contact for the school at filming locations and communicate campus updates, schedule changes, standout students and coaches, and story ideas to the social media team.

What This Job Offers

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