[Remote] Social Media Content Creator
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Playbook Media is an early-stage, venture-backed sports media company focused on enhancing the way fans engage with sports. They are seeking a Social Media Content Creator to manage their social presence and produce original content that resonates with sports culture and engages fans across various platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own Playbook's day-to-day social presence across Instagram, X, YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and emerging platforms, including content calendar, publishing, and community engagement
- Create original, sports-culture-driven content including short-form video, graphics, and text-based content rooted in what's happening across the sports world
- Appear on camera for short-form video, with commentary, quick takes, reactions, and recurring series formats
- Shoot social-first video in the field using iPhone as needed, including at events and shoots involving Playbook talent
- Repurpose long-form content from Playbook's talent and properties into native, platform-optimized clips
- Monitor real-time sports and culture moments and move quickly when the timing is right
- Edit and produce short-form video independently using CapCut, Adobe Premiere, or similar tools
- Track performance and iterate: you know what worked, why, and what to do differently next time
Skills
- 0 to 4 years of experience creating content for social platforms, ideally at a media company, sports brand, or creator-driven organization
- Deeply fluent across TikTok, Instagram, X, and YouTube Shorts: You understand the native language of each platform, not just the posting mechanics
- Plugged into the sports world across leagues, athletes, media, and the culture surrounding all of it
- Comfortable and natural on camera; you can deliver on the first or second take
- Strong instincts for what's culturally relevant and a bias toward moving fast when it is
- Proficient in short-form video editing; you can produce quality content on a quick turnaround
- Equally effective with planned editorial and real-time reactive content
- Organized enough to manage a content calendar, autonomous enough not to need one handed to you
- Experience working with or adjacent to athletes, talent, or sports media
- Familiarity with the creator economy and how athletes are building media businesses
- Graphic design skills using Canva, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar
- Experience using AI-assisted video tools such as CapCut AI, Descript, or OpusClip
Benefits
- Eligibility for performance-based incentive compensation
- Comprehensive health coverage
- Flexible paid time off
- The opportunity to build meaningful equity in an early-stage, venture-backed company
- Fully remote position
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