Director, Creative Video

The Stanford University Department of Athletics, Physical Education and Recreation (DAPER) is currently accepting applications for a Director of Creative Video. Reporting to the Associate Athletics Director, Marketing & Brand Advancement, this position will help lead and manage the Creative Video staff, providing strategic vision and oversight of creative video content produced for all social media platforms, brand marketing and product advertising commercials, and other creative assets. In collaboration with Marketing, Digital Strategy, Graphic Design and Communications teams, this role will support all Stanford Athletics efforts to attract, excite, and communicate with fans, followers and prospective student-athletes; create content that follows and amplifies our 36 Division I varsity programs; build brand affinity for Stanford Athletics; highlight program stories and narratives; and support revenue-generating efforts. Successful execution of this role will enhance and protect the Stanford Athletics brand, celebrating our rich history while enticing fans, the local community, and elite prospective student-athletes to join us on The Farm. This is an onsite, full-time, exempt position. 

Core Duties:

• Research, prepare and produce digital media for instruction,promotional programs, location and studio programs, live videoconferences and webcasts, live-on-tape studio, and/or othercommunicative purposes for both internal and externalaudiences.

• Partner with clients on strategic and creative approaches toprojects involving abstract or technical content to meet objectives andwithin time and cost constraints: articulating the production processand expectations, communicating issues, providing status updates, andsuggesting appropriate methods for improvement.

• Develop and market digital services to internal and externalclients to create visual content, including video and images and providebest practice standards that foster photographic and videoexcellence.

• Manage all aspects of capturing, recording, and transmitting ofall digital media productions, video and/or images.

• Make recommendations for purchases and repairs of digital mediaequipment. Diagnose and resolve digital media system problems. Createcost estimates for different equipment options. Provide stewardship ofuniversity resources.

• May be responsible for producing remote multi-camera programs,supervising field crews and managing technical aspects and overallapproach for productions, including all collateral.

• May produce high-quality post-production and editing to ensure aquality product and an accurate depiction of content. May review andedit masters to meet the needs of the client(s) and/or producer andproperly store, label, and archive of masters and editedmasters.

• May produce high-quality digital surrogates of fragile and/orrare materials or other analog sources for access, display, andpreservation purposes using a variety of equipment.

• May set up, operate and troubleshoot on a variety of equipmentincluding but not limited to; video cameras, video projection, videoconferencing, still photography, analog and digital audio recording. Maytrain or provide guidance to other staff.

• May act as liaison with vendors, develop strategies, workflowsand rate cards for clients, identify competitive pricing for productsand services and close projects for billings.

Minimum Education andExperience

Bachelor's degree and five years of relevant experience orcombination of education and relevant experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Advanced technical experience using digital media equipment,video creation, editing software, and/or digital media controlsoftware.

• Strong knowledge in production techniques including videography,compression and file delivery and other production formats.

• Broad knowledge of all aspects of professional qualityproductions, including field and studio camera, lighting, sound andediting,

• Understanding of online video environment and onlinedistribution.

• Demonstrated ability to perform repairs on a wide variety ofaudio, visual and computer equipment.

• Ability to adapt equipment setup and provide alternative setup orworkarounds if necessary.

• Ability to manage a variety of simultaneous projects within tightdeadlines, excellent organizational and time management skills.

• Excellent interpersonal skills, mature judgment, and diplomacyrequired to interact effectively with and provide customer service to abroad audience.

• Ability to work independently as well as effectively in acollaborative team environment.

• May require experience planning, coordinating, and executingarchival digitization projects.