DICK'S Sporting Goods

• Coach and develop your engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, and opportunities that stretch their skills and build toward their goals. • Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to shape roadmap priorities, navigate trade-offs, and drive predictable delivery by helping your team break work into shippable increments. • Set clear standards for product quality and engineering craft, and help the team consistently deliver work that meets them regardless of pace or pressure. • Hire and onboard strong engineers, keeping the bar high on values alignment, skill fit, and AI fluency as a core part of how they approach their work. • Contribute to engineering culture and organizational effectiveness beyond your team through cross-team initiatives, mentorship of other managers, and helping shape how our org operates.

• Lead the end-to-end design process and ship features across mobile and web platforms. • Collaborate with cross-functional team members to influence the product from conception to execution through a user-centered approach. • Use AI tools throughout your design process — from concepting and prototyping to identifying repeatable workflows worth automating. • Speak with customers frequently, collect data, test prototypes, and translate research insights into meaningful outcomes. • Facilitate design sprints and workshops to develop high-quality solutions. • Craft intuitive design flows, sketches, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI for mobile and web. • Help evolve and grow the design practice at GameChanger. Contribute to our design system, be vocal in design critiques, share inspirational resources, and aid in brainstorms. • Question the status quo and advocate for change.

About GameChanger: 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, GameChanger 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. The Position: GameChanger users already live stream and watch millions of hours of youth sporting events and clips using the GameChanger app, and we’re looking for a fully-remote Staff Software Engineer/Architect to help lead the expansion of our video capabilities as we form our new Video Engineering team. While we’ve had teams build video functionality, this full-stack, empowered team will be dedicated to video - owning our video pipeline end to end, 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 platform to handle millions of streams and hundreds of millions of highlight clips annually. As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll be a hands-on architect and software engineer leading development efforts within the team, influencing direction, roadmaps, and technical direction. A strong communicator and mentor, you’ll collaborate closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager on technical roadmap and strategy, mentor and pair with other developers, and collaborate with other platform and product teams to design and build video-related projects that advance our streaming capabilities, handle our increasing scale, and improve our users’ experience with video to ensure that fans can always capture and watch the moments that matter to them most. As a founding member of this new team, you’ll help set the tone and culture, onboard other engineers, and influence the entire video stack: mobile broadcast and playback frameworks, back-end ingest/transcoding/playback infrastructure, VoD storage and playback, and hooks for other workflows such as automatic highlight clipping, advertising, live-stream overlays, and AI/Computer Vision workflows. Check out some of our current video capabilities at https://gc.com/live-video What You’ll Do: - Working in your cross-functional team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/consumption at scale. - Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the video team, you’ll help influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features as we continue to scale and add new capabilities. - Collaborate closely with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to drive improved user experiences and business outcomes. - Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and provide guidance and hands-on help as needed. - Help to build and connect to internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to enable product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at various stages of the video pipeline. - Help define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues. Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers. - Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space. - Be able to be in an oncall rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours. What You’ll Bring: - Strong background in video and audio streaming, preferably with a focus on live-streaming of user-generated content. - Extensive experience architecting and building scalable and high-performance video pipelines in cloud environments. We use AWS but any cloud/container experience is fine. - Strong understanding of audio and video packaging principles, codecs, and other associated technologies and tools, including their relative tradeoffs, such as MPEG Video, MPEG-2 TS, HLS, DASH, H.264 AVC/H.265 HEVC/VP9/AV1/VVC, RTMP/enhanced RTMP/SRT, FFMPEG, DRM, etc. - Hands-on software development experience designing and building live and VOD streaming workflows and exposure to a wide breadth of video technologies around mobile broadcast, ingest, transcoding, storage, playback, and related systems at scale. - Proficiency reading (preferably coding) in languages commonly used in the video space, such as c#/golang/C++/Rust/Python, as well as experience in other higher-level languages such as Node/Typescript, React, or mobile languages like Kotlin or Swift. - Experience designing/building/connecting internal APIs/SDKs across the stack (backend to front end) to enable rapid feature development. - Experience mentoring/training/working with other teams through documentation and live sessions on the best way to accomplish building features utilizing the system we build/own. - Familiarity with mobile video broadcasting of user-generated content and the challenges of optimizing streaming quality and reliability across a variety of devices and network conditions. - Hands-on experience with one or more video players. - Front end development experience in web, iOS (Swift), and/or Android (Kotlin) required. Willingness to learn/work in front end areas you are not familiar with is a huge plus. - Familiarity with CV concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus. - Familiarity with video advertising systems concepts, architectures, and/or tools is a plus. Who You Are: - An excellent communicator and writer capable of breaking down complex projects and technical details for stakeholders of varying expertise. - Proven track record of effective technical leadership in software engineering roles in the video streaming space. - Comfortable working across multiple technologies, programming languages, and areas of the video stack. - Able to foster collaboration and teamwork within technical teams. - Someone who loves learning the latest tech in the mobile and live streaming spaces, and loves teaching it to other engineers and product managers. Perks: - 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 to make sure you have the latest and greatest technology. - WFH stipend - $500 annually to make your WFH situation comfortable. - 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 are offered through Vanguard, with an immediate company match. - Life insurance - basic life, supplemental life, and dependent life. - Disability leave - short-term disability 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. The target salary range for this position is between $169,000 and $185,000. This is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We review all teammate pay regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay. DICK’S Sporting Goods has company-wide practices to monitor and protect the company from significant compliance and monetary implications as it pertains to employer state tax liabilities. Due to said guidelines put in place, we are unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Our Interview Process & AI We recognize that AI has become a common part of everyday life and professional work, and its use continues to evolve rapidly. Our perspective on AI in the hiring process will evolve as well. At this time, we ask that candidates please refrain from using AI tools during interviews and assessments, as we want to see your authentic self. We will clearly indicate if and when AI use is acceptable in the process. If you have any questions or need accommodations, we're here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone! IMPORTANT NOTICE: All official recruitment communications from GameChanger will come from an email address ending in @gc.com or no-reply@ashby.hq.com. If you receive communication from any other domain, please be cautious, as it is likely fraudulent.

• Define Product Strategy • Partner across Product, Engineering, Design, Strategy, Marketing, and Business Development to shape the long-term vision and strategy for GameChanger Basketball. • Identify opportunities through customer research, market trends, competitive insights, and business priorities. • Make thoughtful tradeoffs that balance customer needs with business impact. • Lead Product Development • Own the product lifecycle from discovery and ideation through launch, measurement, and ongoing iteration. • Translate strategy into a clear roadmap and work with Engineering and Design to deliver top-notch customer experiences. • Launch quickly, learn from customer feedback, and continuously improve your product. • Drive Customer & Business Outcomes • Define success metrics and use qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate product performance. • Partner with Analytics to uncover opportunities, validate hypotheses, and inform future investments. • Ensure product decisions contribute to customer satisfaction, engagement, and business growth. • Collaborate & Influence • Communicate product vision, priorities, milestones, and outcomes to stakeholders at all levels of the organization. • Foster alignment across cross-functional teams while navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.

• Own and evolve GameChanger's multi-year security and technology strategy, including prioritization, resourcing decisions, alignment to business and parent company goals, and communication of security investments and tradeoffs to technical and executive leadership. • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of security and technology operations professionals, including setting priorities, coaching teammates, managing performance, creating opportunities for growth and impact, and creating an environment to support autonomy and ownership. • Own the direction and delivery for all key areas of information security, including product and application security, cloud security, AI security, security operations, vulnerability management, and governance, risk, and compliance functions. • Evaluate and mitigate risks across infrastructure, product, and corporate environments. • Set direction for AI security and governance as part of a secure SDLC and corporate environment, including the secure adoption of AI tooling, the security of AI-enabled product features, and AI usage governance, partnering with AI enablement and governance stakeholders across the company. • Lead the governance, risk, and compliance program, including internal assessments (for example, NIST CSF 2.0), external assessments, and clear risk reporting to leadership. • Own the security operations and incident response program for the GameChanger environment, including detection, on-call, escalation, and coordination with our parent-company security function. • Own internal technology operations, including the technology support function for our remote-first workforce and the systems and endpoints employees rely on to do their work. • Manage the BISO relationship with DSG, including decision rights, shared-services integration, and the partnership with the DSG CISO. • Lead the cross-departmental security steering committee and represent security and technology in executive forums, building alignment and buy-in for key initiatives. • Educate and influence the broader company on security principles, threats, and practices.

• Coach and develop engineers through regular 1:1s, clear expectations, and opportunities that stretch their skills and build toward their goals. • Shape the experimentation roadmap by partnering with cross-functional peers as a strategic thought partner. Help your team navigate trade-offs and drive predictable delivery by breaking work into shippable increments. • Champion a culture of experimentation, helping your team instrument features correctly, design reliable tests, maintain engineering rigor, and iterate quickly to generate insights and learn from both successes and failures. • Guide technical direction for GameChanger’s experimentation platform, supporting other teams’ experimentation needs and guiding them to run effective A/B tests. • Work with other engineering leaders to improve our culture, craft, and engineering practices across the organization. • Attract and onboard top engineering talent, ensuring alignment with our values, technical excellence, and AI fluency in their approach to work.

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for identifying, validating, and scaling new product opportunities that expand GameChanger's impact across youth sports. • Define and drive product strategy by combining customer insights, market opportunities, business objectives, and experimentation to bring innovative products and experiences from concept to market. • Partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, CX, Marketing, and Business leaders to align teams around a shared vision and deliver high-quality products that create meaningful value for users and the business. • Navigate ambiguity and make thoughtful investment decisions as opportunities evolve, balancing long-term strategy with near-term execution. • Recruit, coach, and develop high-performing product managers while fostering a culture of innovation, ownership, collaboration, and customer obsession.

• Lead and develop Engineering Managers and their teams across mobile, web, and backend disciplines, fostering a high-performance and high-trust culture. • Define and drive technical strategy for a portfolio of new products and experiences, balancing rapid iteration with long-term scalability, reliability, and quality. • Partner closely with Product, Design, Data, and Business leaders to evaluate opportunities, solve complex customer problems, and bring new products to market. • Champion thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies, including AI-powered capabilities and tooling, to improve both customer experiences and engineering effectiveness. • Recruit, develop, and retain exceptional engineering talent while helping shape the culture and technical standards of the broader engineering organization. • Champion an AI-first engineering mindset, identifying and integrating AI-powered tooling and capabilities to unlock new user experiences and improve team productivity.

• Build structure, processes, and operating rhythms that support new venture strategy and business growth. • Lead cross-functional coordination across Strategy, Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, and CX — ensuring alignment and momentum. • Develop and maintain operational documentation (playbooks, FAQs, internal guides) that enable teams to move quickly and consistently. • Lead planning and program management for key initiatives — including timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder accountability. • Track deliverables across workstreams, identify blockers, and step in to unblock and ensure forward progress. • Support the Head of New Ventures in decision-making by gathering inputs, synthesizing information, and ensuring clear follow-through on decisions. • Drive communication and alignment by cascading context, decisions, and updates across teams to reduce silos and increase velocity. • Help define and build reporting to track performance, operational health, and key business metrics. • Contribute to and manage lightweight operating cadences — standups, status updates, trackers, documentation. • Prepare materials for leadership reviews and ensure decisions are captured and actioned.

• Working in your cross-functional team of mobile, web, back-end, and infrastructure engineers, you’ll design, architect, code, and support video features across the video pipeline stack, including live video ingestion, transcoding, integration, storage, and playback/consumption at scale. • Working closely with the Engineering Manager and Product Manager of the video team, you’ll help influence, communicate, and iterate on the strategic roadmap for the technology powering our video features as we continue to scale and add new capabilities. • Collaborate closely with mobile, web, machine learning/computer vision, and platform teams on multi-faceted projects across the entire video processing system to drive improved user experiences and business outcomes. • Review and provide feedback on designs and code PRs, pair on architectures, and provide guidance and hands-on help as needed. • Help to build and connect to internal SDKs, frameworks, and tooling to enable product development teams to easily integrate video into the product at various stages of the video pipeline. • Help define and build real-time monitoring and measurement systems for critical operational workflows in the video pipeline, including tools for on-call developers and customer support to manage and troubleshoot issues. Support the video workflows through an occasional (few days per month) on-call rotation with a team of other engineers. • Lead, mentor, interview, and onboard other software engineers in the video and live-streaming space. • Be able to be in an oncall rotation to support our production systems if issues arise off hours.