Video Operations Manager

October 9

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The Athletic

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The Athletic is a sports media company known for comprehensive sports coverage and in-depth reporting across various sports such as football, tennis, Formula 1, golf, MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and college sports. It provides high-quality articles, live updates, and expert analysis covering significant events and players in the sports world. The platform features content on various leagues and tournaments, providing insights from well-known journalists and analysts. The Athletic aims to set the standard in sports reporting and offers subscription-based access to its content.

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

📱 Media

⚽ Sports

📋 Description

• Manage the end-to-end lifecycle of podcast and TV video assets—from ingest and media organization to metadata recording, managing and optimizing internal storage systems, and leading distribution requirements to our syndication partners. • Oversee organization, ingest, and quality control of both long form video episodes and social media assets, across all shows produced. • Manage metadata standards and data input across platforms and databases to ensure discoverability, consistency, and compliance with partner requirements. • Collaborate with producers and editors to ensure accurate metadata tagging, internal management, and asset distribution. • Manage the packaging, export, and delivery of video episodes and vertical short videos to internal programming teams and syndication partners. • Maintain delivery schedules and ensure timely distribution to platforms, such as YouTube, and third-party partners. • Coordinate with external vendors and internal stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve delivery or encoding issues. • Partner with Design Teams and develop media assets for distribution requirements, such as video thumbnails and transcriptions. • Help define and refine media management and delivery workflows across multiple show teams. • Implement best practices for file naming, version control, and archival systems. • Stay up to date with changes to platform specs, syndication policies, and emerging video delivery standards. • Liaise with editorial, product, engineering, legal, and partnerships teams to ensure smooth operations across all video podcast projects. • Partner with internal Programming Teams to locate, organize, and share daily video assets to proper stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• 4–6+ years of experience in video operations, media asset management, or content distribution—preferably in a podcast, sports, or digital media environment. • Deep understanding of media formats, transcoding, video specs, and metadata schemas. • Experience managing syndication to platforms like YouTube, Acast, Aspera, and social media platforms. • Experience with managing global database recording, such as Gracenotes, and continuous organization and information input. • Familiarity with content management systems (CMS), digital asset management (DAM) tools, and project management platforms (e.g., Airtable, LucidLink, etc.). • Strong organizational and communication skills, with a proactive and collaborative approach to problem-solving. • Experience in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Photoshop and Premiere Pro, is a plus. • Passion for sports and digital storytelling is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans. • Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses. • 401k retirement savings plan and employer match. • Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave.