Rays Baseball Club LLC is hiring: Video Producer in Saint Petersburg

The Tampa Bay Rowdies Communications department is seeking a dynamic, collaborative and creative individual for the club’s full-time video producer 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 Communications and work closely with the other members of the Rowdies Communications department 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
• 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 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 and weekends 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.