Overview

Vox Media employees thrive 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.

Vox Media is looking for a Talent Manager to join SB Nation Team Brands. This position will report to the Director of Team Brands.

What you’ll do:

  • Develop and cultivate strong partnerships with managers of SB Nation’s hundreds of team brands to influence change throughout the entire hiring process, assuming the role of a trusted recruiting partner.
  • Book team brand contributors as guests on radio, podcasts, TV, and YouTube shows. Develop a deep roster of connections and relationships in team-specific niches and DMAs across the country to leverage.
  • Own relationships with these media outlets, and evolve these bookings into ongoing regular appearances.
  • Build a relationship with national outlets that established SB Nation as *the* one-stop connection for a national TV or radio hit with a fan base.
  • Standardize and simplify the requirements for contributors who make media appearances so they have no technical, bureaucratic, or administrative hurdles to overcome. They just bring their expertise.
  • Partner with managers to ensure alignment and strategic action plan regarding sourcing, interviewing, and hiring.
  • Use your eye for quality content to identify original, engaging new voices. You’ll do this by going through posted ads, prospecting on Twitter and in fan communities, and identifying talents among SB Nation’s commenters.
  • Proactively source candidates using a variety of methods and tools to ensure a high level of diversity in the candidate pool. Track our successes across the network at interviewing and hiring diverse contractors.
  • Develop talent pipelines in narrow niche sports markets and broad functional areas including writing, video, audio, social production and more.
  • Track the success of candidates, so that we can identify pipeline sources that are more effective.
  • Perform initial resume screening through Greenhouse and learn to identify the specific skill sets that work for our unique network of team brands.
  • Schedule interviews with candidates and the interview team for the role according to the interview plan.

What you’ll bring:

  • Successful full lifecycle recruiting experience with a mixture of corporate, agency or start-up experience
  • An eye and ear for great content, and skills to find it.
  • Experience cold-calling and booking media appearances
  • A passion for helping original voices find wider audiences. You’ll be one of the people who allows a smart fan to uplevel from an obscure Twitter user to an influential voice
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Attention to detail

Bonus Points For:

  • A broad local network of connections
  • A voice on Twitter that will make you a natural attractor of SB Nation contributors

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.