Social Media Manager, Sports On Prime, Prime Video Sports

Amazon; New York (NY); On-site; USD 108,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in sports entertainment seeks a Social Media Manager to join its dynamic team for Prime Video Sports. This role involves driving social media strategy and execution for high-profile live sports content, ensuring engagement and connection with audiences. Candidates should have substantial experience in social media related to sports and be passionate about the intersection of sports and digital culture.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional social media experience in live sports.
• Proven track record engaging fans on social media.
• Experience with content production tools.

Responsibilities

• Oversee social editorial and promotional calendar for @SportsOnPrime channels.
• Develop social creative for live events.
• Utilize insights to recommend changes to strategic approach.

Skills

Social publishing experience

Strategic planning

Copywriting

Data-driven decision making

Collaboration

Tools

Photoshop

Premiere

Live Clipping tools (Grabyo, WSC)

Job description

Social Media Manager, Sports On Prime, Prime Video Sports

Job ID: 2915490 | Amazon.com Services LLC

Seeking a talented Social Media Manager (SMM) to join the Prime Video Sports social media team. The Sports Social Media team at Prime Video is responsible for developing engaged social media audiences at scale, while also building and executing go-to-market promotional campaigns for our growing portfolio of live sports properties, including Thursday Night Football, NBA, NASCAR, NWSL, WNBA, and much more. This role serves as the day-to-day editorial owner of the @SportsOnPrime social channels, with input from team lead. This role will think strategically, direct our agency partners, and provide publishing support for all Sports On Prime channels, including YouTube. They will set the day-to-day editorial creative direction for the agency publishing team and own channel reporting back to the social lead. This role will be expected to have had significant social publishing experience in both the day-to-day and during live sports events.
Your tone-of-voice, creativity, knowledge of sports and internet culture, and platform expertise will support a developing social identity as our portfolio grows. The social media platforms utilized are public, highly visible marketing channels, requiring creative thinking, strong copywriting, strategic planning, and extremely high judgement.


Key job responsibilities
• Oversee, contribute to, and execute social editorial and promotional calendar for @SportsOnPrime social channels.
• Advise social leadership on go-to-market planning for upcoming campaigns using current platform and editorial trends.
• Pitch, develop, and plan breakthrough social creative that drives high engagement before, during, and/or after our live events.
• Utilize strong sports editorial judgement to recognize and curate socially-relevant moments during both our live broadcasts and around the sports landscape, utilizing content production tools to optimize posts for each platform.
• Communicate clearly and effectively with agency partners who support day-to-day operations.
• Collaborate with the Prime Video brand social team and other cross-functional teams to make the biggest impact for priority moments broadcasts.
• Utilize insights and reporting to recommend changes to content and strategic approach.
• Build relationships and become a trusted partner with the external leagues/organizations we work with.
• Contribute to the maintenance of the team’s CMS.
• Assist the needs of the team and broader sports portfolio as seasonality allows.


About the team
Prime Video has a vast selection of live and on demand sports content including Thursday Night Football, NBA, NASCAR, WNBA, New York Yankees, NWSL, and more. The Sports Marketing team is charged with creating world-class marketing campaigns to deliver this growing portfolio of live sports content to Amazon customers.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

- • 4+ years of professional, non-internship, live sports social experience
- • Experience posting directly to highly visible and public brand channels in a live environment.
- • A deep passion for the intersection of sports, social media, and internet culture.
- • Experience maintaining a social media editorial calendar.
- • Experience writing social-minded copy.
- • Experience using data and metrics to drive improvements and changes to social approach.
- • Experience communicating with cross-functional teams.
- • Experience with content production tools, such as Photoshop, Premiere, and Live Clipping tools like Grabyo or WSC.
- • Willingness to work nights and weekends as broadcast calendar dictates
- • Proven track record of engaging sports fans on social.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- • Experience working with talent and talent teams to capture social-minded content on-site.
- • Experience managing influencer campaigns a plus.

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $108,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $185,000/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits . This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.

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