The Athletic is hiring a
Video Growth Manager

Summary

The job is for a Video Growth Manager at The Athletic, a digital sports media company. The role involves overseeing the global video team's operations and growth, planning and executing distribution strategies across various platforms, and improving programming based on best practices.

Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant work experience; media owner, publisher, platform or agency
• Excellent line management and leadership capabilities. Be a natural leader and be able to develop direct reports
• Social video expert, with intimate understanding of how a video should perform on social, and what editing is required to maximize the chance of the video going viral
• Excellent understanding of social analytics and video platform algorithms
• Great communicator and leader
• Ability to work with minimal supervision with wide latitude for independent judgment
• Have video editing capabilities
• Confident using the full adobe suite with a strong skill set on Photoshop in particular
• Exceptional copywriting skills for social posts, video descriptions and solid understanding of SEO and tagging tools for platforms

Responsibilities

• Work with the production teams to design and build processes and strategies focused on leveraging video content to drive views and engagement
• Oversee everything that goes live across our channels and the processes that lead to publication
• Utilize data to inform decisions on how to package content in-product, and how to reach existing and future audiences through our content
• Communicate with the production team to proactively identify high-performing content, plan packaging strategy across channels, and provide meaningful feedback on content performance
• Drive growth by leveraging content across all social video platforms
• Work collaboratively with The Athletic’s production and social teams to identify and win big moments
• Support the Senior Executive Producer, Creative Studios in responding to RFPs from the commercial team to help win creative briefs for the company
• Own the data tracking for all metrics related to our departmental goals

Benefits

• Highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life and disability insurance plans
• Savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses
• 401k retirement savings plan and employer match
• Paid time off including paid sick leave, 12 paid holidays, 15 days of accrued vacation to start, and up to 20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave