Social Media Manager

Ripken Baseball, Inc.

$80K — $100K *
Media
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong understanding of youth sports culture and trending conversations in sports.
  • Proven storytelling abilities across various media formats and channels.
  • Experience in managing and guiding content creators.
  • Ability to collaborate across diverse teams and departments.

Responsibilities

  • Oversee daily management of Unrivaled Sports' social media channels.
  • Develop and manage editorial calendars focused on storytelling and community engagement.
  • Conceptualize and pitch content ideas that align with brand priorities.
  • Engage actively with the community through comments and insights on audience reactions.
  • Collaborate with brand partners on co-branded content initiatives.
  • Set and review performance metrics for social media effectiveness.
  • Manage a network of content creators at sports events to capture relevant stories.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model in key urban locations.
  • Opportunity to shape the voice of a growing brand in youth sports.
  • Collaborative environment with cross-departmental partnerships.
  • Creative editorial role that emphasizes storytelling.
Full Job Description
Title: Social Media Manager

Entity: Unrivaled Sports

Location: Hybrid in preferred locations - New York City, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles or Salt Lake City

Salary: 80k - 100k USD annually

About the Company:

Unrivaled Sports is building the nation's most exciting, community-driven youth sports brand-and we're looking for a Social Media Manager who lives and breathes sports culture to join our team.

This is not a "just post highlights" job. This is an editorial role with creative muscle: you'll shape the voice of Unrivaled Sports across platforms, coordinate creator output, and craft an always-on strategy that helps millions of families feel connected to the magic and impact of youth sports.

Position Summary:

Editorial Leadership & Channel Management
  • Lead day-to-day management of all Unrivaled Sports social channels (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook).
  • Build and maintain platform-specific editorial calendars rooted in storytelling, community, and culture.
  • Brief content concepts that ladder into brand priorities and bring our stories to life.
  • Actively manage community engagement: reply to comments, amplify standout moments, and surface insights around what's resonating.
  • Work with brand partners to concept, pitch, and produce co-branded content that aligns with both Unrivaled Sports' editorial voice and partner objectives.
  • Set and monitor KPIs for reach, engagement, growth, and community sentiment.

Creator Management & On-the-Ground Operations
  • Manage a network of seasonal creators, interns, and on-the-ground content contributors at key tournaments and events.
  • Coordinate content capture across dozens of locations-ensuring creators know what to shoot, how to shoot it, and what stories matter most.
  • Create toolkits, prompts, content challenges, and recurring formats that drive consistent content from creators, tournaments, teams, and local communities.
  • Provide recommendations, outreach, and content management for culturally relevant creators.

Leadership & Development
  • Navigate a matrixed organization with ease-partnering across sports, venues, operations, and leadership teams.
  • Provide expertise on social media across the Unrivaled Sports ecosystem.
  • Build simple, scalable systems for content sourcing, approvals, asset tracking, and publishing.
  • Uphold brand voice, values, and quality standards across all touchpoints.


Qualifications:
  • Deeply tapped into sports culture. You track emerging voices, formats, memes, and conversations across pro, college, and youth sports-and understand how to translate them into a youth sports-centered brand.
  • Editorially minded. You think in story arcs, formats, and repeatable content structures-not one-off posts.
  • Culturally-minded operator. You know what great looks like-story arcs, pacing, music, caption voice, micro-moments-and can coach creators toward it.
  • Collaborative. You're comfortable working across a matrixed org and translating inputs into actionable content.


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