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Director

New York, NY

YouTube

Digital

Starts Mar 01

Full Time

  • Job Requirements: Must be local to location (or willing to work as a local).

Overtime, the leading voice is sports for Gen Z and beyond is hiring Directors for their long-form content team! In short, this is a great opportunity for someone eager to take on big campaigns and bring them to life. While you'll often be working directly with clients, we prioritize giving our team the autonomy to bring their vision to life. If you're a visionary director eager to take the ball and run with it, this position is for you. Our team is currently working remotely, so you’ll start out working from home, and eventually transition to working in our New York office when it reopens to the whole staff.


About Overtime
Overtime is sports for the next generation of fans. As both a publisher and an influencer, we've built the inclusive world of sports we all wish was the norm by giving a platform to our community to be seen AND heard. We produce original content across YouTube, Snapchat and IGTV, as well as highly engaging short-form content on Instagram and TikTok. In just four years, we've amassed over 40 million fans and followers and drive an average of over 1.5 billion video views each month.

Based in NYC, Overtime is funded by top VC firms, industry leaders, and athletes, including Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Greycroft Ventures, Blue Pool Capital, Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony.


What you’ll do
-Direct large scale productions with crews of 10+ people
-Overseeing budget, location, scouting, casting, creative and logistics
-Communicate with external clients throughout the process and meet their expectations
-Communicate efficiently with the edit team to make deadlines
-Be a leader on set by prepping everything and being comfortable fielding every question

Who you are
-5+ years of experience directing and overseeing large initiatives with brands and creating engaging long-form content. Showrunning experience a big plus
-Extensive work doing every element of prep for large shoots.
-Knowledge of audio/visual equipment. While this role likely will not be filming, the person filling it needs to have an understanding of camera equipment, lighting, and media storage.
-Travel is required for this position. Candidates may need to be on the road for months at a time.
-Post-production experience

How to Apply
-Interested candidates should watch our content on Overtime's Youtube Channel prior to applying. We recommend watching Paint Wars and content from The Takeover, our collaboration with converse (links to both below)

Paint Wars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDgaCSbHl8U
The Takeover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puJF4uwY_u0&list=PLlTp94_grONSr8eNW1jBq-AeUOxvY9Zu5

In your cover letter, please include:

-Why you'd be the right person to direct and oversee this type of programming?
-What did you like about the content?
-What we can improve with the content?
-How did you hear about this job?
-Why you like Overtime?
-Links to reel and previous work

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