Senior Engineering Manager (Video Enablement)

• 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, collaborate on the vision of video enablement 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 the video teams Engineering Director, engineers, product managers, and other cross-functional roles and teams
• 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 - contributing your technical perspective while working within a collaborative, already-thriving team dynamic
• Lead the Video Enablement team through the design, build, and support of core video capabilities, including third-party device integration support (ex: GoPro, Mevo, etc.), mobile-first live streaming and capture, ingest, transcode, storage, and playback
• Continuously measure and improve live and VOD streaming experiences, bringing data and user empathy to every decision
• Hire, onboard, and grow a high-performing team of mobile, backend, and infrastructure engineers - preserving and extending a culture of ownership, curiosity, and craft while mentoring engineers into tomorrow’s technical leaders
• Serve as a hands-on technical leader: staying sharp enough to review code, contribute when needed, and credibly mentor a team of senior and staff engineers while working alongside leadership peers to build on what’s working rather than reinventing it
• 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 through clear interfaces, documentation, and collaboration
• Stay engaged during production incidents and pitch in when the team needs support

Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
• Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
• Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we’ve got you covered.
• 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
• Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
• Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
• Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
• Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
• Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick’s Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events- Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a resilient, scalable video infrastructure environment (we use AWS)
• A leadership style rooted in collaboration, someone who earns trust by listening first, understands the existing landscape before suggesting changes, and influences through ideas rather than authority
• Ability to think strategically and contribute to the long-term vision of the engineering team along with your leadership partners in the space
• Experience coding in languages common in the video space (Go, Rust, C#) is a plus, as is familiarity with Node/TypeScript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift
• Comfort operating as a player-coach: you’re not writing code every day, but you’re close enough to the work to be credible, helpful, and a genuine resource to your team
• Strong background in video and audio streaming, with hands-on experience in user-generated content and live streaming technologies, and a proven track record of delivering projects in that space
• Curious and current: you follow the evolution of video technology and bring relevant ideas to the table without chasing trends for their own sake
• A proven engineering leader with a track record of delivering in the video streaming space, doing it with your team, not just through them
• Energized by high visibility and high stakes. Our platform handles millions of live streams and hundreds of millions of clips annually, and a lot of people across the org depend on what we build
• Someone who sees a strong existing team and culture as an asset to build on, not a blank slate to redesign
• An excellent communicator who can bridge technical depth and stakeholder clarity without losing either
• Genuinely user-obsessed - you care about the experience on the other end of the stream
• Comfortable with a remote-first, async-by-default culture - you communicate proactively in writing, don’t need a meeting to make progress, and trust others to do the same
• Someone who creates an environment where engineers feel safe saying “I don’t know” and where postmortems are about learning, not blame