GameChanger

• 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.

• Lead and collaborate on new feature development within our Subscriptions Backend. • Make and give feedback on architectural decisions. • Improve existing systems’ observability, reliability, and maintainability. • Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge. • Create and maintain technical documentation. • Discuss tradeoffs and scope with Cross Functional stakeholders such as product or design. • Work with Data Engineers to ensure an accurate picture of subscription purchasing behavior. • Participate in an occasional on-call rotation with the team.

• Establish GameChanger’s sales motion from scratch as the first sales leader • Design and implement core infrastructure, including CRM, pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting • Develop sales playbooks, pricing/packaging inputs, and compensation structures • Hire and lead a high-performing team across new business and account management • Engage key stakeholders across clubs (directors, coaches, program leaders) • Create repeatable strategies for onboarding, activation, and expansion • Carry and deliver against revenue targets across verticals • Build and manage a healthy pipeline with strong forecasting discipline • Personally lead and close high-impact deals • Establish an account management approach to drive retention and expansion • Define the customer lifecycle from acquisition through long-term growth • Partner closely with Customer Success to maximize customer outcomes • Partner with Product to shape roadmap based on customer insights • Work with Marketing on demand generation and positioning • Align with leadership on go-to-market strategy and growth priorities

• Own the design, development, and operation of large-scale APIs, data pipelines, and event-driven systems that power a wide range of CV-based features. • Design and own schemas and queries to handle high-traffic, data-intensive workloads. • Contribute to frontend integrations (Android, iOS, web) to extend backend-powered CV features into user-facing experiences. • Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Design, and QA partners to deliver scalable, reliable platform experiences. • Integrate computer vision-powered features into production systems with attention to performance, maintainability, scalability, and platform fit.

• Own and drive business-critical product areas including scorekeeping, fan experiences, and team management throughout our backend services. • Design, build, and operate scalable, high-performance backend services in production. • Lead projects and work with Product, Design, QA and other engineers to understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions. • Evolve our APIs and service contracts to ensure performant, reliable communication between backend systems and client applications. • Contribute to architectural decisions that guarantee scalability, maintainability, and developer productivity as our backend systems evolve. • Identify and address performance bottlenecks, improve system reliability, and deliver high-impact new features in data-intensive domains. • Ensure security, data integrity, and privacy compliance. • Raise the technical bar through thoughtful code reviews, design feedback, and knowledge sharing. • Create and maintain clear technical documentation to support long-term maintainability and cross-team understanding.

• Own architecting, optimizing, and transforming finance and product centric data models in DBT for flexible analysis by Data Analysts / Scientists and self-service by business stakeholders. • Design data validations to ensure data integrity throughout our pipelines, and assure the accuracy of our reporting. • Create transparency throughout the full data pipeline by establishing foundational processes with upstream data producers and downstream data consuming tools (BI, Reverse ETL, experimentation). • Advance agentic tooling and other automation efforts that help the team spend less time investigating data issues, and more time doing analyses. • Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base. • Work closely with our Data Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, Diamond (Baseball/Softball) Sports, and Finance teams to build foundational models around new sport specific features, monthly recurring revenue, and subscription forecasting. • Support cross functional core metrics and data dependencies with leadership visibility.

• Own enterprise planning and performance systems, including annual planning, long-range strategy, and company-wide frameworks (OKRs, KPIs, business reviews). • Lead company-level strategic initiatives, defining ownership, timelines, success metrics, and ensuring execution from concept through delivery. • Partner with the Executive Leadership Team on prioritization and decision-making, providing structured inputs and supporting tradeoff discussions. • Develop presentations and collaborate with the Communications team to roll out plans across the organization. • Drive cross-functional alignment and operating discipline across Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Customer Experience, and DICK’S partners. • Build and improve reporting and insights, partnering with Data & Analytics team to deliver dashboards and monitor execution. • Manage GameChanger's engagement in DICK'S Sporting Goods' enterprise planning processes, ensuring alignment across timelines and visibility into progress. • Drive successful execution of high-priority, cross-functional strategic initiatives — serving both as lead on select initiatives and as central integrator across initiative owners. • Establish clear governance, ownership models, timelines, and success metrics for major initiatives. • Ensure alignment across teams, proactively identifying and resolving dependencies, tradeoffs, or blockers. • Track progress rigorously, measure outcomes, and reinforce accountability at all levels. • Champion disciplined, data-driven prioritization while preserving space for experimentation and emerging opportunities. • Serve as our subject matter expert on strategic and annual planning. • Lead with a highly collaborative, low-ego approach while partnering closely with the Executive Leadership Team and department leaders to advance company-wide priorities. • Drive organizational alignment and execution rigor, reinforcing a “one company, one plan” mindset. • Build strong rapport with team members at DICK'S and ensure clear alignment and visibility across organizations. • Identify and leverage AI and emerging technologies to enhance planning rigor and operational efficiency.

• Contribute to feature development for the stats & insights experience throughout the stack, with a focus on our Android app. • Collaborate with peers on important decisions about how our applications are architected and built. • Team up with designers, testers, and product managers to find the best solutions for our customers. • Learn from and share knowledge with engineers across the company. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code following established best practices. • Contribute to improving engineering practices and team processes.

• Operationalize and manage performance and talent processes, including performance cycles, talent reviews, succession planning, and promotion frameworks. • Lead engagement initiatives, including survey deployment, analysis, and partnering with teams to drive action plans that improve team health. • Build and scale career development frameworks and manager enablement programs to support growth across the organization. • Use people data and reporting (engagement, performance, retention, compensation) to inform decisions and improve program effectiveness. • Support total rewards programs by improving understanding, adoption, and alignment with business needs. • Manage and develop our People Operations Specialist, ensuring strong execution across People processes and programs.

About GameChanger: We believe in the life changing impact youth sports have on and off the field. Sports 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 is looking for a Vice President of Brand Marketing to shape and scale our brand as we enter our next phase of growth. You will build brand visibility and relevance, and do so in a way that is modern, authentic, and uniquely GameChanger. This approach will use content, organic social, creators, and community and avoid traditional, high-cost brand tactics. You will own upper-funnel brand strategy, including awareness, consideration, and brand-driven discovery. You will define and steward GameChanger's brand positioning, voice, and creative systems, ensuring they come to life across content, campaigns, and experiences. You will report to the Chief Commercial Officer and partner with Product, Growth, Communications, and Sales to ensure brand storytelling supports long-term adoption and value. What You'll Do: - Own and evolve GameChanger's brand strategy, including positioning, voice, narrative, and creative systems that scale across channels and teams. - Lead upper-funnel brand growth, driving awareness, consideration, and brand-led traffic through compelling storytelling and creative excellence. - Build GameChanger into a social-first publisher, creating always-on content that grows followers, impressions, engagement, and share of voice. - Oversee influencer and creator marketing, developing authentic partnerships that extend reach and cultural relevance while activating our users as advocates. - Lead Integrated Marketing, Social, Content, and Creative teams, ensuring high-quality, on-brand execution and strong cross-functional alignment. - Drive measurable acceleration in social audience growth, engagement, and share of voice as primary leading indicators of brand momentum. - Own integrated planning and the marketing calendar, aligning launches, campaigns, and content across the business. Who You Are: - 15+ years of experience in brand marketing, including foundational training in a CPG or similarly brand-led organization, combined with experience operating in a high-growth, resource-constrained environment. - Demonstrated experience building brands organically through social, creators, and community — with deep platform fluency (algorithms, content mechanics, and influencer ecosystems) and measurable audience growth. - Deep experience building consumer-facing brands at scale. - Experience defining and scaling brand voice, creative systems, and storytelling frameworks across teams and channels. - Experience leading Creative Services, Social Media, Influencer, and Integrated Marketing teams. - Comfortable operating with a publisher mindset, working at the speed of culture and modern platforms. - Experience managing senior leaders and versatile teams. - Passion for youth sports and the communities that surround them. Perks: - Work 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. - 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 $225,000 and $250,000. This is part of a total compensation package that includes incentive, equity, and benefits for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by several factors including experience, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. We constantly review all teammate pay to ensure a great compensation package that is fair and equal across the board. * 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.