Digital Marketing Manager 2/Community Management-Specialist

The Community Management Specialist is responsible for actively seeking out, participating in, and shaping conversations across @Clientsportswear workstreams; you will be our voice across the biggest moments in sport, seasonal campaigns, and any on-going community engagement opportunities. The Community Management Specialist is responsible for actively seeking out, participating in, and shaping conversations across Global Football key workstreams - seasonal campaigns + our pulse of football offense - in ways that feel authentic, timely, and athlete-led.

Our client, a leading athletic footwear and apparel manufacturing company, is looking for a Digital Marketing Manager 2/Community Management-Specialist. This is for an initial duration of 09 months and is located at Beaverton, OR.
 
Job Title: Digital Marketing Manager 2/Community Management-Specialist
Reference ID: 26-04166
Location: Beaverton, OR.
Duration: 09 months
Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)

Job Description:

Community Management, Specialist, Client Flagship and Client Sportswear

Who We Are Looking For:

• We're looking for a Community Manager for Flagship and Sportswear. This role sits at the intersection of culture, conversation, and craft within sport and sportswear culture. The Community Management Specialist is responsible for actively seeking out, participating in, and shaping conversations across @Clientsportswear workstreams; you will be our voice across the biggest moments in sport, seasonal campaigns, and any on-going community engagement opportunities. All we ask is that you are authentic, timely, and athlete-led in how you show up and, for NSW in particular, a font of knowledge when it comes to counter-culture and streetwear.
• The ideal candidate is passionate about sport (all sport!) and sportswear, sneaker culture and emerging trends in fashion. You should have great writing skills, a good sense of humour, and genuinely love seeking out the next meaningful conversation online.
• We're looking for a Community Manager for Global Football. This role sits at the intersection of culture, conversation, and craft within ClientFootball social. The Community Management Specialist is responsible for actively seeking out, participating in, and shaping conversations across Global Football key workstreams - seasonal campaigns + our pulse of football offense - in ways that feel authentic, timely, and athlete-led.

The ideal candidate is passionate about Global Football / Soccer and the culture of game and has a good understanding of how to connect with the consumer. Understanding the nuances of the sport.

We're looking for someone who has a finger on the pulse of sport, culture, and youth and who will bring ideas for how Client can connect and deliver consumer value.

What You Will Work On:

• If this is you, you'll work within the Global Digital Marketing team and perform a critical supporting role to our daily offense across social, helping to deliver disruptive ideas to ignite the brand as well as orchestrating digital experiences to drive growth across footwear and apparel.
• You will work closely with and in support of the Global Digital Marketing Leads & Experts on larger scale marketing plans. You will attend and contribute to meetings with cross-functional and geo partners to represent the digital conversation in the development and execution of our marketing plans.

Who You Will Work With:

• We're a diverse, inclusive, innovative, and passionate team. This role will report to the Global Social Media Director for, and the Sr Director Global Digital Marketing, Sportswear. As a matrixed organization, you will also work closely and collaboratively Global Brand Management, Integrated Media, Social, Comms, Sports Marketing, and Creative, in Global as well as with Geography partners in North America, APLA, Greater China and EMEA. As needed, you will work with agencies to bring work to life.
• We're a diverse, inclusive, innovative, and passionate team. This role will report to the Sr Director Global Digital Marketing, Global Football
• @Client also shows up across multiple platforms, and there is an expectation to drive meaningful conversation across these channels too; inclusive of Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and Threads.

What You Will Bring:

• You will bring a desire to be part of a fast-paced, high energy, skilled team of digital marketers who have a passion for sport and crafting meaningful connections between consumers and the brand. You have a strong understanding of digital marketing/storytelling and sport culture.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education, experience and training
• 3+ years of social and community management experience
• Expertise and knowledge of youth culture, athlete mindset, and a genuine excitement and passion for sport culture.
• Fluent in the language, rituals, and motivations of different style communities and know how to enter conversation in ways that add value, spark thought, and invite participation (Sportswear).
• Extremely confident writer with a natural, human voice; but able to take on the tone of our brand and switch according to channel and placement.
• Ideally with experience of key tools such as Airtable, Keynote & Figma.
• Great interpersonal skills, teamwork mentality and ability to work well with many different partners across brand, creative, paid media, retail, social & comms.
• Effective communicator, both written and verbally.
• An agile mentality and ability to work in a high pace, evolving environment.
• Strong social listening instincts with the ability to find the right conversation, not just respond to mentions.
• Ability to engage thoughtfully in conversations that are provocative, motivational, or insight-led, without feeling brand forward.
• Sharp eye for athlete and community content.
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills - able to spot patterns, themes, and cultural signals across conversation.
• Comfortable working independently in fast moving social environment while collaborating X-functionally.
• Clear understanding of social platform, engagement mechanics, reposting best practices, and community norms.

Desired Candidate Profile for Headcount #1:

• Minimum required years of experience: 3+ YOE in Social Media Management experience, copy writing, and is a Global football expert
• Education requirements: bachelors or equivalent experience

Must have skills:

• Passionate about global football, they have to know ball, "the fans will eat them alive if they do not know global football culture”
• Strong creative copy writing skills
• Managing comments on social media posts, working closely with community managers

Nice to have skills:

• Sharp eyes for content
• Portfolio: examples and visualization of work
• Proactive and creative thinker
• Software/technical requirements:

Previous industry experience preference: Yes, if recent

Desired Candidate Profile for Headcount #2:

• Minimum required years of experience: 3+ YOE in community management on Social Management
• Ideal backgrounds: competitor brands, fashion brands, sports brands, music brands, film marketing companies, the arts.
• Education requirements:

Must have skills:

• Strong copy writer, a very online adept person, adding the brand's voice to niche spaces and cultural centers, experience with flagship deals
• A Client of the brand, experience representing brands, keeping branding and tone consistent Has expert knowledge of Sneaker culture or Sub cultures, impacted culture
• Also open to candidates with cultural knowledge of Music, gaming, fashion, art, design, etc Holistic passion for sports, sportswear, fashion, Sneaker head

Nice to have skills:

• Sharp eyes for content for Instarageam, TikTok, youtube, and X (twitter)
• Comfortable with stakeholder management, managing up, getting things through approval process, building trust
• Portfolio: examples and visualization of work
• Software/technical requirements:

 
 
Interested and Qualified candidates, please send your most recently updated word document resume to

Jaffer.s@sunrisesys.com

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