MLB League Manager

Overview

Vox Media employees go deep, thriving on innovation and change while ambitiously seeking to master their subject areas, hone their craft, and improve their communities. We help smart, talented, creative professionals make a meaningful impact in media, technology and the world around them. The Vox Media house of brands includes industry-leading media forces like SB Nation, Eater, The Verge, Vox, Curbed, Recode, Racked and Polygon, and reaches an audience of hundreds of millions, generating over a billion content views each month.

SB Nation is the fastest-growing online sports media brand and the largest network of more than 300 individual fan-centric sports communities, including SBNation.com, our national flagship property. Our network is powered by the most respected web-native sports journalists, editors, bloggers, and video producers who strive to create smart content that helps our audience appreciate sports even more.

We’re looking for a League Manager to help us oversee, develop, and grow our 34 individual baseball team sites. The MLB League Manager leads editorial coordination of all baseball loving team sites and their off-platform efforts. This is a position where experience in multiple digital disciplines is helpful: content strategy; content packaging; video storytelling; social media strategy; remote management of contributors; editorial direction; community and loyalty building; budgeting and payroll management.

The MLB League Manager will thread all these disciplines along with a voice of and a passion for BASEBALL into a successful, cohesive direction while intertwining content packages and successes into the larger partnership with SB Nation sport editors, directors, and EIC.

Our MLB League Manager will be:

• Overseeing 34 sites, including all team and macro sites and associated budgets;
• Identifying opportunities to recruit, train, and coach all site managers;
• Conducting editorial oversight, quality control, and accountability for all sites;
• Managing year-round content strategy pegged to seasonal tentpoles;
• Partnering with sales and executing post-sale campaigns;
• Managing and auditing social media strategy and tactics for all sites;
• Guiding production and planning of videos, video series, and evergreen videos;
• Surfacing best works around the league for recognition, re-circulation, and distribution throughout network;
• Conducting weekly outreach to site managers and staffs with and facilitation of story ideas, direction, strategy, tactics, successes, opportunities, knowledge sharing, etc.;
• Serve as primary point of contact for all communications to league sites for Vox Media product, support, editorial, video, legal, and people & culture teams.

Our best candidates will:

• Have a passion for baseball in all its diversity;
• Have strong organizational skills (juggling calendars, payroll, campaigns, communications);
• Have heart for nurturing the voice of fans and finding unique ways to serve the baseball audience;
• Be adept at content and social media strategy;
• Have editorial experience and understanding;
• Be able to flex between high-level strategic discussions down to micro-level tactical execution;
• Effectively manage others in a remote environment via email, slack, video, phone, etc.

We encourage candidates of all experience levels to apply. If the above doesn’t seem like an exact fit for your skill set, please get in touch anyway and tell us why you want to work with us!

About working at Vox Media: This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits—including flexible hours and generous parental leave. Vox Media strives to provide comprehensive healthcare options for our employees and to ensure that our healthcare and other benefits are LGBTQ-inclusive. You’ll be joining a group of focused, hard-working, creative people who are passionate about doing work that’s challenging and fun—and who strive to maintain a healthy work/life balance.

Vox Media is committed to building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and everyone is encouraged to apply. Vox Media is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, disability, national origin, protected veteran status, age, or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state, or local law.