Overview
Social Media Manager Jobs in United States at Whittingham Sports
About Whittingham Sports
Whittingham Sports is a fast growing sports marketing agency helping leagues, teams, and athletes grow and monetize their fanbases through content, strategy, and amplification. Founded by award winning sports executive Kyle Whittingham and backed by industry leaders, the company has already helped launch new leagues and grow sports brands from the ground up, including the Pro Padel League and Real American Freestyle.
We’re looking for someone who’s ready to get their hands dirty, create content that fans actually care about, and help build something big. If you love sports, storytelling, and startup energy, you’ll fit right in.
Our Values
- Speed Wins: We don’t sit on ideas, we make them happen.
- Work Hard, Work Smart: Relentless effort meets sharp strategy.
- Grit Over Glamour: We chase greatness, not shortcuts.
- Real Relationships: We build trust that lasts beyond campaigns.
- Agility is Our Advantage: We pivot fast and seize opportunities.
- Winning Together: No passengers. Only partners.
Why You’ll Love Working Here
- Direct mentorship and feedback from industry leaders across social strategy, content, and digital growth.
- Real, hands-on experience working on professional sports leagues, teams, athletes, and brands
- Live event experience supporting publishing, coverage, and storytelling in fast-paced, real-world environments.
- Training on professional agency workflows and tools used to run large-scale content operations and distributed creative teams.
- The opportunity to build a strong portfolio with real performance results you can speak to in future roles.
- A clear path to future opportunities with Whittingham Sports for top performers.
- Full-time role with competitive benefits and hybrid working flexibility.
About the position
Whittingham Sports is seeking a Full-Time Social Media Manager to support day-to-day planning, content creation, and publishing operations across client channels. This position is built for a proven storyteller who lives online, understands internet subcultures, and thrives in the chaos of live sports.
Serving as a player-coach, you will help run the day-to-day workflow of the social department , leading a dedicated team of coordinators and community managers while staying hands-on with live content production and creative direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Day-to-Day Operations: Run day-to-day client social workflows, ensuring alignment between high-level strategy, creative execution, and deadlines.
- Team Leadership: Directly manage and mentor the Social Media Coordinator and Community Manager roles to ensure cohesive brand voices and seamless publishing.
- Content Calendars & Sourcing: Oversee the master social calendar while actively sourcing historical, viral, and user-generated footage to maximize content output.
- Creative Briefing: Write sharp, detailed creative briefs for videographers, editors, and graphic designers to bring high-impact visual assets to life.
- On-Site Content Production: Shoot high-impact mobile content on-site at live events, managing real-time capture, footage organization, and narrative delivery .
- Asset Organization: Systematically organize raw footage and event capture to build a highly functional, accessible archive for the agency.
- Community Management: Oversee and support active community interaction across channels, finding tactical opportunities to insert our brands into the conversation .
- Performance Optimization: Track social performance and platform metrics to optimize content based on real-time audience behavior.
Requirements
- 2 to 5 years of professional social media or content management experience, ideally in sports, entertainment, or agencies.
- Heavily culture-obsessed, internet-fluent, and deeply embedded in wrestling and combat sports culture.
- Proven ability to grow audiences, develop content calendars, and write clear creative briefs.
- Comfortable filming, directing moments, and managing asset organization in fast-moving live event environments.
- Fluent across Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, X/Twitter, and LinkedIn.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills alongside strong leadership instincts.
- High energy, resilient, and highly flexible—built for travel and live sports environments.
- Ability to travel to events on a monthly / bi-monthly bases (Typically Wednesday-Sunday).
Preferred Skills
- Advanced video editing experience (CapCut, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, or Meta Business Suite).
- Advanced graphic design experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, or similar tools).
Title: Social Media Manager
Company: Whittingham Sports
Location: United States
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