Remote Action Sports Social Media Manager | Viral Content

Wave Sports & Entertainment; New York (NY); Remote; USD 27.000 - 38.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Wave Media Agency is seeking a Social Media Manager to operate the New York‑based professional action sports team’s social channels, delivering vibrant, authentic content across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. You’ll build fan communities around athletes, events, and culture, blending storytelling with fast‑paced production.

The ideal candidate lives action sports, has a proven history managing sports or athlete accounts, and can shoot and edit mobile video on-site or remotely, aligning with

Qualifikationen

• Experience producing and editing short-form video for social media.
• Proven track record growing sports team or athlete accounts.
• Fluent in current action sports culture.

Aufgaben

• Own day-to-day management of the team's social channels (TikTok, Instagram & Facebook), producing, editing, and publishing a high volume of short-form video content.
• Source standout tricks, runs, slams, viral moments, and trending topics from competitions, training sessions, and athlete channels.
• Build athlete-led storytelling (profiles, hero storylines, behind-the-scenes access, rivalries, progression) that turns the team's athletes into personalities fans follow.
• Create timely, compelling edits and recurring content series that align with current social trends, platform best practices, and the competition calendar.
• Apply social-native editing techniques (on-screen text, captions, trending sounds, transitions) to maximize virality and audience engagement.
• Speak authentically to core action sports communities while making content accessible to new and casual fans, with a distinctly New York voice.
• Collaborate with athletes, team staff, partners, and internal content teams to build a programming calendar tied to events, athlete news, and local and cultural moments.
• Integrate sponsor and partner deliverables into content in a way that feels native to the feed.
• Capture, clip, and publish live during competition days, including weeknights and weekends.
• Shoot mobile content on-site at competitions, training sessions, and fan activations; travel as required.
• Manage community engagement across comments, DMs, and collaborations with athletes and creators.
• Track performance (engagement, shares, saves, watch time, follower growth), report on growth, and use insights to cut weak formats and double down on what works.

Kenntnisse

Video editing

Social media management

Storytelling

Editing for mobile

Community engagement

Tools

Adobe Premiere Pro

After Effects

CapCut

Jobbeschreibung

Wave Media Agency is seeking a Social Media Manager to operate the New York‑based professional action sports team’s social channels, delivering vibrant, authentic content across TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook. You’ll build fan communities around athletes, events, and culture, blending storytelling with fast‑paced production.

The ideal candidate lives action sports, has a proven history managing sports or athlete accounts, and can shoot and edit mobile video on-site or remotely, aligning with