Vertical Video Editor, Social & Digital Content

This role sits within the NBA Social & Digital Content team, which identifies, creates, distributes, and publishes compelling content across the NBA's social and digital platforms and to its many domestic and international partners. The position produces and finishes high-quality social-first short-form and real-time video content that brings NBA stories, players, teams, and moments to life. It serves as a senior creative and technical resource within the team, applying advanced storytelling, editing, compositing, audio, and colour-correction skills to deliver polished and elevated content across NBA vertical platforms.

• Edit social-first short-form, vertical, and real-time video content that incorporates strong storytelling, pacing, music, and sound design.
• Provide real-time game and event coverage by editing content for the NBA's nightly, weekly, and tentpole social and digital programming, which may include working days, nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Collaborate with producers, content creators, publishers, designers, and other editors to identify and produce the most compelling moments from NBA games, events, and league storylines.
• Finish and composite NBA programming using non-linear editing systems at a high level.
• Create content for vertical video platforms, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Stories, Snapchat, and other current or emerging platforms.
• Manage multiple projects and competing deadlines while maintaining a consistently high level of creative and technical quality.
• Incorporate feedback from producers, senior leaders, league stakeholders, and platform partners efficiently and effectively.
• Stay current on editing techniques, industry and platform trends, social storytelling formats, emerging technologies, and changes in fan-content consumption.
• Assist with content publishing and additional Social & Digital Content team responsibilities, as needed.

• Extensive professional experience editing social-first short-form content for a sports brand, media organisation, production company, or entertainment brand.
• Advanced proficiency with professional non-linear editing systems.
• Strong proficiency in compositing, audio mixing and sweetening, colour correction, media management, quality control, and final content delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to produce highly polished video content involving narrative structure, character development, and a defined storyline.
• Strong understanding of creating content for vertical platforms.
• Experience creating content for vertical video platforms, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snapchat, and other emerging platforms.
• Experience creating basketball or sports-related content.
• Strong knowledge of the NBA and passion for the storylines surrounding its players, coaches, teams, statistics, standings, and league history.
• Excellent understanding of basketball rules, terminology, statistics, analytics, and the history of the game.
• Strong understanding of the NBA's social voice, visual identity, and audience.
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously with a precise and detail-oriented approach.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast-paced environment while handling critical and time-sensitive assignments in a composed manner.
• Excellent organisational, project-management, and communication skills.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with producers, editors, designers, content creators, publishers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to receive, interpret, and execute feedback while maintaining established creative and technical standards.

• Advanced proficiency with Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Bachelor's degree in Communications, Film, Television, Media Production, or a related field preferred.

• $29.76/Hr

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in union-sponsored employee benefit programmes that include medical, dental, vision, disability, and group term life insurance, dependent care assistance, and a 401(k) retirement plan.