Rowdies - Specialist, Video Production at Rays Baseball Club LLC – St Petersburg, Florida

The Tampa Bay Rowdies are seeking a dynamic, collaborative and creative individual for the club’s full-time video production position. The video producer will lead and create all Rowdies video content while meeting and maintaining specified deadlines. They will report to the Director of Marketing / Communications and work closely with the other members of the Rowdies to ensure the creation of exceptional video content.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead every facet of club-owned video projects including ideation, developing production plans, gathering info from stakeholders, scheduling, filming and editing
• Lead and define short- and long-form storytelling through video content across the Club for online, social media, stadium videoboard, and advertising – work with stakeholders from every department to guide storytelling and content approaches in alignment with the Rowdies brand
• Capture footage of Rowdies matchdays and training sessions
• Shoot and edit press conferences, player interviews, highlight reels, community relations’ events, youth development, and sales and marketing activations
• Help ideate and create content that organically weaves in corporate partner messaging and objectives to create value for the sponsor, the club, and the fanbase
• Transport, set up, and operate various production equipment including cameras, audio recorders, lighting equipment and microphones for location and studio production
• Occasionally travel with the team and cover select road matches
• Maintain, ingest, log, document, archive content and various other duties
• Submit video projects for review with internal and external stakeholders
• Collaborate with Rowdies Marketing / Communications team on overall content strategy and for annual production day
• Represent the Tampa Bay Rowdies in a positive and professional manner

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS)
• Minimum three (3) years relevant work experience in video production; undergrad experience in college athletics is accepted
• For consideration, candidate must submit a website/portfolio/reel that displays examples of previous work
• Experience with Digital Cine and DSLR camera operations
• Demonstrated experience working in Adobe Creative Cloud on Mac devices, especially Premiere Pro and After Effects
• Familiarity with photography and ability to shoot photos when needed
• Experience with animation preferred, but not required
• Be able to prioritize by highest impact against club goals and drive focus for the content team towards what matters most
• Strong eye for detail with the ability multi-task while producing accurate, high-quality content within specified deadlines
• Willingness to work in a team environment and collaborate with variety of stakeholders to meet strategic needs
• Strong desire to create engaging, fun sports content
• Knowledge and interest in soccer is preferred, but not required
• Willingness to work flexible hours, including nights, weekends and holidays when needed
• Great communicator, professional in presentation and able to work with multiple stakeholders and personalities
• Strong creative ability, a passion for content creation, and an outgoing personality are encouraged.