Editorial Manager, Soccer

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.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

Develop and lead editorial content strategy for assigned team communities centered around seasonal tentpole events.
Consults with programming, audio, marketing, commerce, legal, and other internal teams as needed to implement Soccer content strategy on team communities
Oversee assigned team and macro sites and associated budgets, with seasonal adjustments between tentpoles
Develop policies and best practices for assigned team communities
Conduct editorial oversight, quality control, and accountability for assigned team communities sites. In some cases, this will included close editorial oversight of original reporting and coverage of sensitive subjects.
Work with assigned team communities to continually diversify their contributors and audiences
Manage and audit social media, podcast and commerce strategies and tactics for assigned team communities
Conduct outreach to assigned team communities managers and staffs, 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
Execute on sales strategies in partnership with stakeholders
Hire and supervise full-time employee site/team community producer(s)
Serve as a point of contact for assigned Soccer team communities contributors to SB Nation, and provide consistent and reliable support to contributors
Coordinate and collaborate with senior team community management and producers on Soccer coverage