Senior Digital Video Producer
FC Cincinnati
Job Title: Senior Digital Video Producer
Department: Integrated Marketing & Communications
Reports To: Senior Manager of Creative Content
Position Summary:
FC Cincinnati is seeking a Senior Digital Video Producer to play a crucial role in creating best-in-class video content that furthers the FCC brand while growing and engaging audiences on the club’s social media channels, digital platforms, and Apple TV+. The ideal candidate will be equal parts producer and videographer, possessing the ability to craft timelines, build shot lists, and assemble storyboards while executing all phases of production in shooting, lighting, editing and running sound. The Senior Video Producer will help develop matchday social content, various short and long form video series, and one-off tentpole videos that help support various club initiatives. This is an opportunity to help build and be directly involved in the day-to-day creative for a growing professional sports club, alongside a talented and ambitious content team.
What You'll Do:
- Play a major role in the look and feel of FC Cincinnati’s matchday video content
- Produce end-to-end content for FCC’s social media channels, digital platforms, Apple TV+ MLS Season Pass content, broadcast initiatives and in-stadium boards.
- Engage in pre-production planning, creative direction, filming, and editing of FCC content
- Produce long form and short form video features for social media, digital, Apple TV+, and broadcast
- Demonstrate a plan first and shoot second mindset by building and tracking timelines, shot lists, and storyboards.
- Collaborate with other team members to develop creative concepts and produce content.
- Find new and exciting ways to amplify the FCC digital and match-day experience
- Stay up to date with social media trends and identify ways to get FCC in the conversation
- Collaborate closely with internal stakeholders and external partners to help facilitate the creation of multimedia content to increase revenue and brand recognition
- May be required to travel, which may include air travel and/or overnight stay for one or more nights
What You'll Bring:
- Meticulous organization & planning skills
- A producer’s mindset with a videographer’s skillset
- An outstanding track record of the ability to work cross functionally within a large organization
- Outstanding creative collaboration skills, and an understanding that the best ideas can come from anywhere
- A strong team player with a positive attitude
- Excellent technical videography and editing capabilities
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates fantastic storytelling
- A genuine interest in storytelling that is based just as much in longer form docu-content as it is in short form highlight reels.
- An eagerness to receive feedback and constructive criticism
- Ability to meet aggressive deadlines, think creatively, multi-task, and effectively communicate
- Excellent writing and proof-reading skills, including superior attention to detail
- Familiarity in creating video in different specs, for various aspect ratios on multiple platforms
- Strong knowledge/understanding of:
- Adobe Creative Cloud (primarily Premiere and After Effects)
- DaVinci Resolve
- Sony Cinema Cameras (FX6 & FX3)
- Composition, Lighting and Framing
- OBS
- YouTube Live Streaming
What You'll Need:
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent training or experience required
- 5+ years of experience in Video Production
- Ability to work outside of regular business hours including but not limited to weekends and holidays as required by the FCC game schedule, special events, and projects
Why You'll Love FCC:
- Generous paid time off including vacation, personal, sick, and holiday time
- Option for one work from home day per week (by department and schedule)
- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, 401k plan with company match
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Maternity & Paternity Leave and Family Building Benefit
- Employee Assistance Program
- Discount off merchandise in team store
- Community volunteer opportunities
- Professional development opportunities
- Frequent team building opportunities
- Employee recognition programs and referral programs
- Opportunity for complimentary staff tickets to home FC Cincinnati matches
About FC Cincinnati
FC Cincinnati is a Major League Soccer team playing at TQL Stadium in Cincinnati, Ohio. The club’s diverse ownership group is led by controlling owner Carl H. Lindner III; as well as managing owners Meg Whitman and Dr. Griff Harsh; Scott Farmer; and George Joseph. Founded in 2015 by Lindner and President/Co-CEO Jeff Berding, FCC began play in the United Soccer League (USL) in 2016. The club won the 2018 USL Regular-Season Championship and earned postseason berths in all three of its USL seasons. In 2017, FC Cincinnati also advanced to the semifinals of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a run that included victories over two MLS squads. FC Cincinnati entered MLS as the 24th team in 2019 and opened the club’s 26,000-seat soccer-specific TQL Stadium in the West End neighborhood in 2021. FCC won the 2023 Supporters’ Shield – the annual award given to the team with the most points in the regular season – and clinched a spot in the 2023 MLS Playoffs for the second straight year. FC Cincinnati is one of Sports Business Journal’s “Best Places to Work in Sports 2023,” named to the Honor List as one of “75 Great Sports Companies to Call Home.”
About TQL Stadium
TQL Stadium, home of FC Cincinnati, is one of the most ambitious soccer-specific stadiums in not only North America, but the world. Critically-acclaimed firm Populous designed an innovative and forward-thinking stadium that is one of the largest soccer-specific facilities in Major League Soccer. TQL Stadium has been named Best Venue at the 2022 World Football Summit in Madrid and the 2022 Prix Versailles World Title in the Sports Category in Paris, France.
The stadium has five team locker rooms, including a comprehensive team suite for FC Cincinnati that features a dressing room, coach’s office, lounge, equipment storage and the Mercy Health Center of Excellence for the team’s medical and game day fitness needs. Within the 18 months of the stadium’s completion, TQL Stadium has featured both the U.S. Men’s and Women’s National Teams, including the USMNT’s FIFA World Cup Qualification match vs. Mexico, and a concert by legendary rock band, The Who.
The closest seats are within 15 feet of the pitch at the $250 million, privately funded stadium. The design includes 53 traditional suites and 4,500 premium seats throughout four premium club spaces. FC Cincinnati’s supporters’ section, The Bailey, has grown to be more than 3,100 strong and loom over opponents at a 34-degree angle at the stadium’s north end. A 360-degree canopy roof covers every seat in TQL Stadium, but still allows sufficient sun in to grow a natural grass field.
About Mercy Health Training Center
In 2019, the club opened the state-of-the-art Mercy Health Training Center (MHTC) in Milford, Ohio. Designed by MSA Sport, the $30 million, 24-acre facility includes three full-size, lighted soccer fields – including two stabilized natural grass surfaces and one synthetic turf surface – as well as a goalkeeper-specific training area. The MLS team is housed in a 30,000 sq. ft., multilevel building abutting the fields, including a separate, 4,000 sq. ft. wing of the building for the FC Cincinnati Academy.
Additionally, there is a 3,000 sq. ft. maintenance facility on the property. In the design process, the MSA Sport design team benchmarked training grounds across the world, including the best in Europe, South America, and Asia. The goal of the design meets the original goal to develop one of the premier and most progressive team facilities in Major League Soccer and North America.
To Apply: Please apply through teamworkonline.com and include your resume and salary requirements.
FC Cincinnati is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.