The Overwatch League is seeking a social media coordinator to execute daily management of its social pages and support digital content production. This person will be responsible for community management, social content programming, and generating league-wide engagement from teams to fans and influencers. She/he will work alongside the Overwatch League’s dedicated digital content team and act as a support role to the Overwatch League’s Associate Digital Content Manager. This person will also work cross-departmentally facilitating social programming deliverables and approvals from key stakeholders, and executing social posts for interdepartmental inputs (editorial, broadcast, marketing, etc.). She/he will also liaise with Overwatch League teams’ social media coordinators for league-wide campaigns and/or coordinated activations.
The ideal candidate will have a background in content production coupled with a deep knowledge of all social platforms, though most importantly Twitter and Instagram. Experience in YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok are a plus. She/he will also be fluent in esports, be a fan of the Overwatch League, and have a history of building passionate, fan-based communities through community engagement and strategic content distribution.
Responsibilities
- Execute daily management of OWL’s social media pages including but not limited to Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok
- Support OWL’s digital content production team in brainstorming, scripting, and QC’ing daily content
- Distribute content adhering to OWL’s weekly social programming calendar, including fulfilling requests from interdepartmental inputs with a keen eye on deadlines and embargoes
- Manage requests and track deliverables for assets from our in-house Creative Services agency
- Facilitate daily content programming approvals with all key stakeholders interdepartmentally and work with the digital content production team in addressing any notes
- Execute live tweeting and match coverage including post copywriting, clip lifts, community engagement, and interactions with teams and players
- Curate top plays from each match day to support the digital content production team
- Assist with developing the voice and tone of the OWL brand on social media
- Curating and posting multimedia content (ie: gifs & images)
- Keeping a close eye on potential PR risks in the community and escalating as necessary
- Content metadata tagging in management dashboards
Requirements
- 1+ years experience working with social platforms
- Experience in production, specifically video content creation
- Expert on a variety of social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Reddit a plus
- Ability to work weekends in-season
- Highly knowledgeable and passionate fan of esports and the Overwatch League
- Exceptional organizational and multi-tasking skills while maintaining attention to detail
- Must have excellent communication skills that shine through in audience engagement
- Experience executing against brand and sponsorship campaigns
- Proficient in Microsoft Office
Pluses
- Proficient in Sprinklr and other management dashboards
- Proficient in Wrike
- Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite a plus
- Experience with DAM and file sharing software like Libris and Greenfly a plus
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