Senior Engineering Manager, Video

About GameChanger:

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

The Position:

At GameChanger we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually. We are seeking a talented Engineering Manager who is passionate about live-streaming to build out our new video engineering team. While we’ve had teams build video functionality, this full-stack, empowered team will be dedicated to video - owning our video pipeline end to end, evolving our live streaming and post-game video capabilities for users, simplifying the developer experience for product teams that are integrating video into our apps, and ensuring we have a scalable and resilient platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually.

As Engineering Manager, you’ll hire and build out the team and set them up for success by setting the team’s culture, collaborating on the the vision of video within our products, influencing design/architecture principles and best practices, growing tomorrow’s leaders, and running the day to day of the team. As an excellent communicator and builder of people, you will be a leader, a mentor, and occasional hands-on developer or solutions architect and work closely with engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional roles and teams.

Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate closely with product management and other feature teams to contribute to GC’s overall vision for video streaming technology, influence product decisions, and build video capabilities.

• Lead the team through the designing, building, and supporting of our video capabilities, including third party device support (such as GoPro and Mevo), mobile first-party live broadcasting/capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback.

• Continually measure and improve the live and VOD streaming experiences for our users.

• Hire, onboard, and manage a highly performing video engineering team from the ground up, including mobile, back end/server, and infrastructure engineers.

• Partner with our infrastructure teams to manage a resilient, scalable, and efficient video pipeline in AWS.

• Collaborate with product feature teams and computer vision teams to build capabilities that enable them to easily interact with video within our clients.

• Work with leadership peers to refine and improve our innovative engineering culture.

• Mentor and develop team members into tomorrows technical leaders, fostering a culture of user-focus, ownership, curiosity, continuous learning, and growth.

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, with a focus on user-generated content live streaming technologies.

• Demonstrated success in leading engineering teams with a focus on collaboration and achieving high-quality project goals.

• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and architectures in a resilient, scalable, and secure video cloud infrastructure (we use AWS), particularly in video streaming.

• Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the engineering team.

• Experience coding in languages used in the video space, such as Python/Go/Rust, is beneficial, as well as any other higher-level languages such as Node/Typescript, react, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift.

Who You Are:

• Proven track record of effective people and technical leadership in software engineering roles.

• History of overseeing and successfully delivering projects, especially in the realm of video streaming technologies.

• Excellent communicator able to convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Focused on achieving impactful results for users.

• Up to date with industry trends and developments in video streaming technologies.

Perks:

• Work remotely or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.

• Unlimited vacation policy.

• Paid volunteer opportunities.

• WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable.

• Snack stipend - $60 monthly to have snacks shipped to your home office.

• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA/HRA., and coverage for family/dependents.

• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.

• Disability leave - short-term disability and long-term disability.

• Retirement savings - 401K plan offered through Vanguard, with a company match.

• Company paid access to a wellness platform to support mental, financial and physical wellbeing.

• Generous parental leave.

• DICK’S Sporting Goods Teammate Discount.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The target salary range for this position is between $200,000 and $260,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay.

DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC.