Director, Content

Role Overview

• Lead and manage 5-7 Supervising Producers, advising on their content strategy, production workflow and creative output
• Assist in content ideation and pre-production creative development as well as provide notes in post-production process across 5-7 schools
• Provide consistent and clear feedback to Supervising Producers and content teams to ensure growth and development
• Act as Learfield Studios centralized team’s point of contact for Athletics, Property GMs and content teams at schools
• Collaborate with other Learfield departments to develop new packages, solutions and best practices for teams on the ground
• Partner with VP, Content to grow, develop and optimize content strategy, creative and production workflows across all schools and for long term growth of Learfield Studios
• Pitch directly to internal and external partners and serve as point of contact
• Ensure quality of content is always at the highest possible level within budget and schedule constraints
• Advise on optimal content strategy and plan to increase fan engagement, hit key athletics priorities, and generate revenue locally & national
• Provide and creatively manage notes process for all steps in the development, production and post-production process
• Work collaboratively with necessary departments, internally and externally, to ensure all necessary deliverables are provided to ensure success
• Become an expert on creative best practices for all platforms across short-form video, social, OTT and more.
• Troubleshoot production and post-production issues as necessary
• Work closely with internal and external production teams to ensure budgets and schedules are aligned with creative, talent and audience expectations
• Work closely with strategy to optimize distribution and promotion of content

Requirements

• 8+ years of work experience in the sports or entertainment industry focused on writing, creative development and producing content
• 2+ years of work experience leading and managing staff
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present concepts and strategies to executive leadership
• Experience in managing teams, production workflows, and content strategy
• Passion for and extensive experience in storytelling to drive engagement with consumers
• Sports and/or entertainment experience a must
• Ability to own projects and communicate with external partners as main point of contact
• Experience working with digital, short-form video, social & influencer-driven content.
• Strong project and people management skills
• Direct experience with content creation pipelines
• Ability to generate new ideas and concepts that might align with a project's initiatives
• Creativity in deciding how an idea will be interpreted and representing in execution
• Must contribute to and thrive in a high energy, high profile, positive, proactive, deadline driven, results oriented, and attention to detail environment.
• Strong administrative, critical reasoning, and problem-solving abilities.
• Capacity to manage and prioritize many projects at one time in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.
• Must be highly organized, efficient and precise in his/her work.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Life Insurance and Other Insurance Plans
• Flexible Paid Time Off (minimum 10+ days annually)
• Parental Leave
• 20 Paid Holidays
• 401(k) + Match
• Short/Long Term Disability