[Hiring] Senior Engineering Manager, Video Enablement @GameChanger

Role Description

At GameChanger we score and stream millions of youth sports games annually. We are seeking a talented Senior Engineering Manager who is passionate about live-streaming to manage our video enablement team. This full-stack, empowered team is dedicated to all things core video experience - owning our video pipeline end to end with our video platform team, 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 base in our apps/APIs to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually.

As Senior Engineering Manager, you’ll manage our enablement team and set them up for success by:

• Continuing to monitor/adjust the team’s culture.
• Collaborating on the vision of video enablement within our products.
• Influencing design/architecture principles and best practices.
• Growing tomorrow’s leaders.
• 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 the video team's Engineering Director, engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional roles and teams.

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

Qualifications

• Strong background in video and audio streaming, with hands-on experience in user-generated content and live streaming technologies.
• A leadership style rooted in collaboration.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a resilient, scalable video infrastructure environment (we use AWS).
• Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the engineering team.
• Comfort operating as a player-coach.
• Experience coding in languages common in the video space (Go, Rust, C#) is a plus.
• Familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift is a plus.

Requirements

• Partner closely with the Director of Video Engineering, a dedicated PM, and cross-functional feature teams to help shape and execute on GC's video streaming roadmap.
• Lead the Video Enablement team through the design, build, and support of core video capabilities.
• Continuously measure and improve live and VOD streaming experiences.
• Hire, onboard, and grow a high-performing team of mobile, backend, and infrastructure engineers.
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader.
• Partner with infrastructure teams to maintain a resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient video pipeline in AWS.
• Enable product feature teams and computer vision teams to build on top of video infrastructure.
• Stay engaged during production incidents and pitch in when the team needs support.

Benefits

• Work remotely throughout the US or from our well-furnished, modern office in Manhattan, NY.
• Unlimited vacation policy.
• Paid volunteer opportunities.
• Technology stipend - $4,000 every 2 years after your start.
• WFH stipend - $500 annually.
• Learning stipend - $500 annually towards continued development.
• Monthly physical, mental, wellness & learning stipend offered through Holisticly.
• Monthly lifestyle stipend offered through Fringe.
• Full health benefits - medical, dental, vision, prescription, FSA, HRA, HSA, and coverage for family/dependents.
• Retirement savings - Traditional and Roth 401K plans with an immediate company match.
• Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life.
• Disability leave - short-term and long-term disability.
• Company paid parental leave - up to 20 weeks for birthing parents and up to 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.
• Family building benefits offered through Progyny.
• DICK'S Sporting Goods and their family of brands teammate discount.