Responsibilities

• Team Embedding: Embed with designated sports teams and athletes during event weeks to serve as their primary, real-time creative shadow.
• Mobile Content Capture: Capture elite, high-quality, social-first footage using an iPhone (behind-the-scenes, practices, raw reactions, locker room access).
• Media Day Production: Direct and capture engaging, personality-driven short-form vertical video content during official athlete media days.
• Social-First Execution: Direct, frame, and film with an intrinsic understanding of short-form vertical platforms, optimizing capture for hooks, pacing, and trending structures.
• Collaborative Workflow: Coordinate closely with on-site videographers, agency editors, and remote publishing teams to turn around raw assets quickly.
• Live Pace Maintenance: Maintain elite work ethic and attention to detail during intensive 8-hour daily production cycles from Tuesday through Sunday.

Requirements

• 1 to 2 years of experience capturing short-form vertical video and digital content, ideally in sports, music, or live entertainment settings.
• Technical Mobile Mastery: Expert capability in operating iPhone camera settings, mobile stabilizers, microphones, and on-the-fly lighting setups.
• Native understanding of storytelling formats, hooks, visual pacing, and formatting rules across TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
• Highly professional demeanor with experience interacting comfortably with professional athletes, coaches, and sports executives.
• Resilient, adaptable, and highly resourceful under the high-pressure conditions of live sports production.
• Fully available to travel and clear schedules for all 5 mandatory event date blocks.

Preferred

• High-speed mobile video editing proficiency (CapCut, VN, or Adobe Premiere Rush).
• Conversational or professional proficiency in Spanish.

Benefits

• Direct mentorship and feedback from industry leaders across social strategy, content, and digital growth.
• Real, hands-on experience working on professional sports leagues, teams, athletes, and brands.
• Live event experience supporting publishing, coverage, and storytelling in fast-paced, real-world environments.
• Training on professional agency workflows and tools used to run large-scale content operations and distributed creative teams.
• The opportunity to build a strong portfolio with real performance results you can speak to in future roles.
• A clear path to future opportunities with Whittingham Sports for top performers.
• Travel, event access, and experiences money can’t buy.