Senior Engineering Manager, Video Enablement

About Game Changer

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports.

So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, Game Changer is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

At Game Changer 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.

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• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and cloud architecture in a…