Job Description

JOB DESCRIPTION
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Senior Director, Technology – Sports
NBC Sports Group
Role Purpose The Senior Director of Technology will lead a cross-platform team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining state-of-the-art sports applications for the NBC Sports Group. The role requires a mix of hands-on development, comprehensive technical knowledge, and delivery of a highly scale-able and available video infrastructure.
Responsibilities • Lead technologists responsible for building NBC Sports Group properties such as NBCSports Live Extra, NBC Olympics, Golf Channel and ComcastSportsNet.• Assign projects and development tasks to developers and ensure that technical deliverables remain on schedule and on budget.• Develop highly scalable and efficient video applications and frameworks that meet the goals of the NBC Sports Group. • Partner management across a diverse eco-system to manage evolving lifecycle of multi-platform video. • Coordinate QA/UAT and software releases with Project Managers and Release/QA Engineer.• Provide feasibility reviews for potential new projects, including development effort estimates.• Create or review software architecture and hardware infrastructure proposals for all new application builds.• Ensure that all products launched by the Sports Group meet the organization’s best practices for scalability, stability, and security. (Nbcuniversal Careers 2016)
Sales Executive
Role purposeThe candidate will be responsible for making cold calls throughout the day, reaching out to businesses and individuals that may or may not have previously been to a game.

They will be required to establish a report with potential buyers to meet weekly and monthly sales goals. Products the candidate is expected to sell include season ticket plans (full and partial), group tickets, suites, and prospecting new corporate sponsors. Experience in the field is not required, and the candidate will be trained in the policies and procedures required by the Sioux Falls Stampede. The sales executive will report directly to the Director of Sales.
Manager
 The Manager, Media Buying and Activation is a critical teammate for our clients in the Media Department. This individual will be involved in the day to day communication and management of our partner vendors and media clients. This role will help to negotiate and bring to life media plans to deliver on client and agency goals. This position also offers the unique ability to generate new agency revenue from current or new clients.
Key responsibilities include:
Media schedule development
Gather rates, construct and negotiation media buys and present recommendations and schedules to internal teammates and external clients.
Effectively negotiate and steward media buys across multiple brands, accounts, channels and media outlets.
Work with internal teammates and external partners to ideate, customize and execute client features and billboards ensuring media specs are met.
Develop and negotiate media schedules with national, regional and local outletsMedia schedule management.
Work closely with external sales partners to ensure media specs are met and deliver on agency and client goals.
Manage and report budgets and media deliverables (GRPs, impressions, added value, etc.)
Proactively manage campaign results and implement required optimizations as needed.
Assist Director in regard to maintaining budgets and other campaign dataParticipate in campaign results meetings/calls with client and strategy teams. (Jobs In Sports 2016)
Multi-Media Sports Reporter II
 POSITION SUMMARY: We are seeking multimedia sports reporter to cover football and recruiting, as well as being responsible for related content that drives audience growth on social media.Job duties include serving as a sports reporter, covering football and basketball of colleges in the assigned area, as well as report on recruiting, and serving as an associate content editor, curating published material and managing all social distribution channels serving fans for those teams.
JOB TASKS
Writer/blogger should be able to recognize breaking news and trends related to college beat and originate ideas for content.
Report and write with a strong sense of urgency, energy and tenacityEngages and embraces the community through frequent posts online, pieces in print and appearances in other media.
Write clearly and authoritatively, with sophistication, absolute accuracy and balance, all while doing it on deadline and in a variety of technology tools and social media platforms.
As an editor, must understand what the fan audience needs and wants each day of the week and have the ability to see and produce socially shareable content consistently throughout the day.
Creates photo galleries, quizzes, memes, GIFs from photographs and videosManages, approves and edits/rewrites content from outside sources.
Measures and is accountable for page views and visit targets for content he or she has created. (Orton 2016)
Manager Business Solutions
Responsibilities:
Responsible for the preparation of customized sales proposals for regional and national ad sales. Assist VP, Directors, and Account Executives with client and agency presentations. Monitor stewardship of deals and perform pre and post buy analyses. Work closely with production, programming and graphics to obtain approvals on sponsor integrations. Assist on design of sales packages for large, integrated partnership proposals. Work closely with sales team/agencies on client approval once packages are sold and begin to be executed.
Preparation and revision of proposals to be presented to clients/agencies.Work with network production to obtain approvals on on-air sponsorship’s and integrations
Take part in brainstorms across all of Marketing Partnerships to develop platforms for new clients.
Monitoring of on-air programming schedules to ensure advertisers are receiving the promised amount of premieres and re-airs.
Monitor inventory of on-air assets.
Actively develop solutions when advertiser integrations do not run or are executed incorrectly.
Organize and analyze research and competitive information.
Monitor integrated marketing executions ensuring everything runs correctly.
Capture sponsor videos, social posts and online executions and provide a recap deck for both agency and client.
Provide support and complete additional projects as directed. (Football League 2016).
References
“NBCUniversal Careers”. Nbcunicareers.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 6 May. 2016.
“Jobs In Sports.Com – Connect With Sports Employers Today”. Jobsinsports.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 3 March. 2016.
Orton, Reagan. “Sports Jobs: The #1 Resource For Sports Jobs And Sports Internships”. Workinsports.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 5 Oct. 2016.
Football League, National. “Job Search | One Search. All Jobs. Indeed.Com”. Indeed.com. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 June. 2016.