Company Description

SportTechie is the world’s leading resource devoted to the burgeoning intersection of sports and technology. We cover the latest technological innovations, ideas, and products that impact the fan experience, player performance, and sports industry as a whole. We report the cutting-edge developments with in-depth analysis and exclusive interviews to educate fans and industry experts alike. We exist to analyze and illuminate the growing numbers of ways technology is evolving sports.

Job Description

The Job

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Director of Audience Development who can take the reins of managing SportTechie’s audience across editorial, video, social media, newsletters, and podcast. As an outside-the-box thinker, incredible storyteller and analytics-savvy individual, this person should have the ability to balance numerous priorities while having a proactive mindset towards accelerating SportTechie’s audience growth.

One day this Director of Audience Development will work with our Multimedia Producer to strategically publish our latest video content across our social channels, and the next day she or he will work with our Director of Sales to analyze key metrics across our audience channels to help craft a statistically-driven sales narrative. This person should be a visual-first content creator with social editorial skills and a proven track record of monetizing digital audiences.

Qualifications

What we are looking for:

• An entrepreneurial spirit who truly wants to help build SportTechie

• Previous success with monetizing digital content across a variety of platforms

• 2-3 years experience managing social media accounts at a digital publisher or brand

• Success with creating viral content across Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat

• Experience in growing social and site traffic via engaging readers with creative content

• Skilled in PhotoShop, AfterEffects or other image editing software

• Strong understanding of digital media, SEO, social media and online content strategy

• Someone who desires to step in and be an instant team leader

• Expertise with Google Analytics and other audience tracking tools across all content channels

• Deep understanding of current and emerging social networks

• A savvy communicator and detail oriented individual

• Journalistic and editorial skills are a major plus

Additional Information

Job Location

• Work remotely with consistent daily communication with the SportTechie team

• Being in a major city is preferred

Compensation

• Competitive salary, benefits and equity package

How to apply - Email - info at SportTechie.com

Send us our cover letter, resume and top three examples from your creative portfolio that can help show why you will excel as our Director of Audience Development. Additionally, please include any relevant background about yourself and your previous editorial experiences that will further illustrate your fit for this position.

Note: Please try to demonstrate personality, sports technology knowledge and logical reasons for why you will be a good candidate to fill this vital role on the SportTechie team.