Director, Social Media Dunkman

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What Youll Do

This is a foundational role with real ownership. You will be responsible for building the leagues voice scaling its audience and turning content into reach relevance and revenue. The Director of Social Media will lead all social strategy content planning and platform execution for Dunkman League.

What Youll be Working on

Lead the social media strategy for the Dunkman sports league across all platforms driving audience growth engagement cultural relevance and brand affinity including:

• Own and lead Dunkmans social media strategy across all major platforms including Instagram TikTok YouTube X Snapchat and Facebook
• Build and manage content calendars posting cadence and platform-specific strategies that you will then be responsible for implementing
• Oversee creation of platform-specific social content including short-form video graphics photography copy memes highlights and behind-the-scenes storytelling
• Lead real-time social coverage during live events including highlight distribution fan interaction reactive posting and issue escalation when needed
• Identify trends across sports culture and social media and act on them quickly
• Lead community management commenting and engagement across all social platforms
• Collaborate closely with team on aggregating announcement details for press releases and managing timelines for distribution of these announcements across social
• Develop original content concepts campaigns and social-first storytelling formats
• Collaborate with production and design teams to create and optimize content for distribution
• Work with wider integrated marketing team to feed into all corporate trackers analytics process and weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting
• Understand commercial relationships with all league sponsors and integrate contractual and organic support into content plans and posting cadence; develop custom reporting for all individual sponsors and league partners
• Work directly with athletes to capture authentic high impact content
• Ensure all content is built for performance engagement and monetization
• Track performance and continuously refine strategy based on data translating insights into actionable recommendations that improve content performance and audience growth
• Present ideas and campaigns clearly to executives sponsors and partners
• Maintain relationships with social media platforms when needed
• Operate effectively in fast moving environments where priorities shift and timelines are tight
• Collaborate creators and partners to expand reach through coordinated content influencer activations and cross-promotional opportunities
• Partner with Authentic Brands Groups social and influencer marketing teams to identify cross-brand social opportunities within Authentics brand portfolio
• Partner with Authentic corporate communications team on rolling out social milestones across company and executive social channels newsletters and email comms
• Up to 40% travel including attendance at live events production activities meetings and other business-related engagements

Must Haves

This role requires someone who does not wait for direction. You are expected to bring ideas move quickly and execute at a high level. You will work closely with leadership athletes production and design to ensure everything we create is built to win on social.

• A minimum of 5 years of experience in social media digital content or a related field
• Deep understanding of all major social platforms including algorithms trends and monetization
• Proven track record of growing audiences and driving engagement through content
• Strong instincts for what works and the ability to execute quickly
• Highly organized and detail-oriented with demonstrated success meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communicator who is comfortable working with executives athletes and partners
• Self-starter with leadership ability and a high standard for execution
• Able to adapt quickly and problem solve in real time
• Demonstrated success designing and driving strategy while also rolling up your sleeves to implement
• Passion for sports culture and content

Preferred Experience

• Experience in sports media or live events
• Existing relationships with social media platforms
• Working knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite including Premiere and Photoshop
• Understanding of production workflows and content capture

Additional Notes

• This role requires someone who is hands on accountable and driven
• Comfortable with ambiguity enthusiasm for building from scratch and the drive to turn passion into action
• If you want to build something move fast and be part of creating a new category in sports this is the opportunity
• This role is an individual contributor and would have access to our in-house tools and external agency partners

Primary Location Salary Range:$100000 - $120000

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