Editorial Manager, Soccer Team Communities, SB Nation

SB Nation is the largest independent sports media brand, consisting of SBNation.com, Secret Base, MMAFighting, OutSports and more than 280 fan-centric team communities.

SB Nation is part of Vox Media, the leading modern media company. We guide our audience from discovery to obsession. We inspire essential conversations about what’s now, what’s next, and what’s possible.

As a community of journalists and storytellers, business professionals, creators and technologists, we believe it is a moral and business imperative to amplify voices: to cultivate diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout our organization and media. This applies to our candidates, our teams, our storytelling, our creative work, and our platforms, products, and partnerships.

Strategy

• Have strong knowledge of various leagues such as the EPL, La Liga, US men’s and women’s soccer, and beyond, as well as an understanding of the kind of content that engages soccer fans around the world
• Develop and lead editorial content strategy for assigned team communities centered around seasonal tentpole events and soccer’s biggest moments.
• Develop policies and best practices for assigned team communities
• Attend regular meetings to discuss and refine strategy, programming, and tactics in pursuit of our audience goals.

Community oversight

• Collaborate with stakeholders to increase engagement around comments, Feed posts and overall community health, and expand our audience on all platforms with a refined SEO strategy
• Conduct editorial oversight, quality control, and accountability for assigned team communities sites. In some cases, this will include close editorial oversight of original reporting and coverage of sensitive subjects.
• Oversee assigned team and macro sites and associated budgets, with seasonal adjustments between tentpoles such as the World Cup, Club World Cup, transfer window, and tournaments 
• Work with assigned team communities to continually diversify their contributors and audiences

Execution

• Execute on sales strategies in partnership with stakeholders
• Have a refined perspective on how to cover big soccer tentpoles like the World Cup, European Championship, Club World Cub, and others  throughout the year and coordinate that coverage with the soccer team communities
• Hire and supervise part and full-time employee site/team community producer(s)

Communication & Collaboration 

• Serve as a point of contact for assigned soccer team communities contributors to SB Nation, and provide consistent and reliable support to contributors.
• Consult with programming, product marketing, legal, and other internal teams as needed to implement soccer content strategy on team communities 
• Conduct outreach to assigned team communities managers and staff, and facilitate exchange of story ideas, strategy, tactics, successes, opportunities, knowledge sharing, etc.
• Serve as point of contact for communications to assigned team communities from Vox Media, which may include working with or communicating messages from: product, support, editorial, video, legal, and/or people & culture teams, in conjunction with centralized SB Nation leads

Writing

• Produce and/or edit high-quality, timely content if necessary to supplement soccer coverage of all covered leagues while maintaining the broader voice and tone of SB Nation.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders across SB Nation to ensure content goals align with strategy

• At least 3 years experience working as a writer or editor, preferably in the soccer space
• Advanced knowledge of all things soccer, especially European teams/leagues and the US men's and women's national teams
• Management or mentorship experience
• Demonstrated skills in content strategy, handling budgets, providing editorial assistance, SEO, and digital content creation best practices
• Ability to take direction, meet deadlines, and work independently within a collaborative, team environment
• Incredible attention to detail

If you think you have what it takes, but don't meet every single point in our job posting, please apply with a cover letter to let us know how you believe you can bring your unique skills to the Vox Media team or get in touch! We’ve hired chefs who became editors, DJs who became UX designers, and sommeliers who became writers.

This job is remote.

This is a permanent, full-time position. This job is benefits-eligible. We pride ourselves in providing comprehensive benefits to support all of our employees wherever they are in life. You can find more information about our benefits here.

This role is a part of the Vox Media Union, represented by the Writers Guild of America, East

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