Creative Pipeline Engineer
- Full-time
Company Description
Diamond Kinetics (DiamondKinetics.com) is a growing sports-tech company focused in baseball and softball. As the market leader in the space, DK combines motion-based sensors with mobile applications and a robust digital platform to provide hitting and throwing data to players, parents, coaches, and teams – helping them understand their performance, improve, and have more fun playing the game they love.
Diamond Kinetics is a fast-paced, performance-driven company where responsibility comes quickly, and exceeding expectations is the expectation. The work is challenging and exciting, especially for those who love sports. We believe in stretching for growth as a company and as professionals. We seek competitive, self-motivated people as teammates who do the same.
Job Description
Diamond Kinetics (DK) is seeking a talented individual to join our Product team as a Creative Pipeline Engineer. This person possesses a unique blend of technical skills, creativity and a deep understanding of the baseball world. The person in this role will work closely with the Product team to shape the presentation and manage the scalability of auto-generated content sourced from DK’s partners, including Major League Baseball. The ideal candidate has experience transforming raw content sources and assets into incredible media experiences at automated scale.
This position reports to the Director of Product Content.
Key Responsibilities
Work closely with the Product team to execute creative ideas for digital content that will be featured in the DK app and/or shared on DK’s social channels
Create automated pipelines to transfer video, 3d assets, and other resources into immersive content experiences.
Developing automated processes to retrieve assets from existing stores and prepare them for use in the creative pipeline
Design and implement creative elements: custom graphics, interstitials, visual effects and templates that align with DK’s brand and can be applied to MLB video highlights and other partner content.
Automate and optimize the sourcing, packaging and delivery of DK partner content with creative elements
Apply an established visual style and craft user experiences for games and quizzes in the DK app using data and content from DK partners.
Qualifications
Experience Required
BA or BS in Multimedia, Film Production, Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
Strong proficiency in Python (or alternative scripting and automation tools), with the ability to automate and optimize the video content creation process
Applied experience interacting with 3D graphics software at the programmatic level
Proven experience designing creative assets with a strong portfolio showcasing relevant work
Experience in creating digital content at scale, ensuring a consistent and high-quality output.
Core Competency Requirements
Excellent communication and organization skills
Team player
Self-motivated
Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Attention to detail, ensuring that all content is accurate and adheres to brand guidelines and industry standards.
Genuine passion for the sports of baseball and softball
Additional Desired Experience
Experience with ffmpeg or other programmatic video editing tools
Proficient in using Premiere Pro and After Effects
Strong understanding of baseball metrics and terminology
Ability to illustrate data and metrics
Familiarity with automation and scripting within Creative Suite (Adobe Scripting)
Start-up and/or early-stage company experience.
Additional Information
- Unique and exciting opportunity to work at an MLB-backed early-stage company
- Flexible work environment in our office in Pittsburgh, PA, or remotely in US time zones
- Must be legally eligible to work in the United States
- Competitive compensation package including salary, bonus, stock options, health insurance and 401K plan.
- Diamond Kinetics is an equal-opportunity employer