What are the responsibilities and job description for the Social Media Content Manager position at Unrivaled Sports?
Social & Content Manager
Unrivaled Sports is building the nations most exciting, community-driven youth sports brandand were looking for a Social & Content Manager who lives and breathes sports culture to join our team.
This is an editorial role with creative muscle: youll shape the voice of Unrivaled Sports and our portfolio of brands across platforms, coordinate creator output, and craft an always-on strategy that helps millions of families feel connected to the magic and impact of youth sports.
What Youll Do
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Editorial Leadership & Channel Management: Lead day-to-day management of Unrivaled Sports social channels. Build platform-specific editorial calendars rooted in storytelling, community, and culture, and produce content that brings our brands to life.
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Develop A Portfolio Approach: Create toolkits, prompts, content challenges, and recurring formats that drive consistent content from creators, tournaments, teams, and local communities.
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Brand Partnerships: Work with brand partners to concept, pitch, and produce co-branded content that aligns with both Unrivaled Sports editorial voice and partner objectives.
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Creator Leadership: Develop a strong POV on creators for Unrivaled Sports, finding and leading the execution of creator partnerships from briefing to collaborating.
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Scaled, On-The-Ground Operations: Manage a network of seasonal interns and content contributors at key tournaments and events. Ensure creators know what to shoot, how to shoot it, and what stories matter most.
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Community Engagement: Actively nurture our communities. Reply to comments, amplify standout moments, and surface insights around whats resonating.
Who You Are:
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Deeply tapped into sports culture. You track emerging voices, formats, memes, and conversations across pro, college, and youth sportsand understand how to translate them into a youth sports-centered brand.
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Editorially minded. You think in story arcs, formats, and repeatable content structuresnot one-off posts.
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Collaborative. You can navigate a matrixed organization with easepartnering across sports, venues, operations, and leadership teams.
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Player-Coach: You can both create the content and scale the team around you. Youre able to build and conduct a distributed content organization, pulling in great creators, contractors, and freelancers.
Details:
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Minimum 4 years leading social, preferably in the sports space
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Full-time role offering competitive compensation and rewards package including health benefits, 401k program with matching, PTO and 18 company holidays.
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Flexible (hybrid) with preference for New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles
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Must be willing to travel to events and Unrivaled Sports owned/operated complexes to capture and oversee content (approx 45% of time).
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Reports to the VP of Marketing
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Unrivaled Sports values diversity: we are an equal opportunity employer.
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