Vertical Video Editor, Social & Digital Content

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This position is within a unionized bargaining unit and union membership will be required. Assignment end dates are tentative and subject to change.

Position Summary:

This position is part of the NBA Social & Digital Content team, which focuses on identifying, creating, distributing, and publishing compelling content across the NBA’s social and digital platforms and to its many domestic and international partners around the world. As demand for NBA content continues to grow, this role offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, innovative, and highly collaborative environment, creating content that reaches fans globally.

The Vertical Video Editor for is responsible for producing and finishing high-quality social first short-form and real-time video content that brings NBA stories, players, teams, and moments to life. This individual will serve as a senior creative and technical resource within the team, applying advanced storytelling, editing, compositing, audio, and color-correction skills to deliver polished and elevated content across NBA vertical platforms.

The ideal candidate is an accomplished editor and visual storyteller with strong understanding of the NBA, basketball culture, and the evolving social and digital media landscape. This individual should have experience creating content for vertical video platforms, including TikTok, Instagram Reels, Facebook Reels, YouTube Shorts, Snapchat, and other emerging platforms.

Major Resonsibilities:

• 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. This 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.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Extensive professional experience editing social-first short-form content for a sports brand, media organization, production company, or entertainment brand.
• Advanced proficiency with professional non-linear editing systems, preferably Adobe Premiere Pro.
• Strong proficiency in compositing, audio mixing and sweetening, color 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 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 organizational, 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.
• Willingness to work a flexible schedule, including days, nights, weekends, and holidays, based on the NBA calendar.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Film, Television, Media Production, or a related field preferred.

Salary Range:

$29.76/hr

Job Posting Title:

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

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About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in more than 50 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2026-27 season featured 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries across six continents. The NBA's digital assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.5 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. The NBA's Tap to Watch provides seamless access to local, national and global live game telecasts via the NBA App, NBA.com, third-party digital platforms and NBA partner platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA's global social impact platform, drives change on issues facing fans and communities in the areas of health and wellness, civic engagement, social justice and inclusion, and sustainability.