Associate Social Strategist

The Associate Social Strategist will enhance ACFC’s social brand presence and build strong online communities. This role will help to drive social strategy, implementation, day-to-day community management, and channel analytics with a focus on new and emerging social media platforms. They will report to our Social Media Manager and collaborate on campaign planning & analytics for KPI reporting to senior leadership.

The ideal candidate will have experience engaging with communities, leading social calendars, writing on-brand copy, working with collaborators, supervising critical metrics, and developing insights for future initiatives. This is a staff role based in Los Angeles.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Hands-on planning, managing, creating, and posting across all social platforms including: Discord, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
• Assist in leading ACFC’s entry into emerging social channels, moving at the speed of social.
• Ensure brand consistency in copy through tone, voice and terminology.
• Grow and manage the ACFC community on Discord and manage bot features.
• Set goals for, track and report on community-related metrics ensuring visibility upwards as well as helping to inform on metrics’ significance.
• Schedule, manage and promote webinars, AMA’s, guest moderators, Twitter Spaces and other live events on Discord.
• Work with Social Media Manager on what content and posts resonate with our community across visual platforms for social campaigns including but not limited to game day activations, merchandise drops, player news, community events and more. 
• Collaborate with multiple internal partners (content, marketing, ticketing, community, etc.) to make organic social content compelling and comprehensive.
• Research and stay abreast of trends in consumer behavior, internet & social media behaviors, new technology or platforms and share knowledge with team to be first to market, if suitable.
• Monitor for potential risks/crisis scenarios and notify and coordinate with the Public Relations team and Social Media Manager to define an action plan.
• Support social influencer relations and activations with Influencer lead.
• All other duties as assigned

Skills & Qualifications: 

• 2+ years marketing experience preferred with focus on social media.
• Strong understanding of all social media channels, but must have experience with Discord, TikTok, and YouTube. Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Tumblr are a plus. Nuanced understanding of each platform and how to optimize copy and content across these platforms.
• Experience and knowledge in the Web3 space and with Blockchain/Crypto/NFT’s is necessary, hands on experience managing social media in this space is a huge plus.
• Excellent copywriting skills.
• Experience with platform analytics tools such as Zoomph, Sprout Social, Simply Measured, Meltwater, YouTube Analytics, Google Analytics, Tribe Dynamics, and/or Facebook Insights is key.
• Previous work in sports is required; soccer is preferred. General love and knowledge about soccer are a plus. 
• Spanish language fluency is strongly preferred. 
• Knowledge of Los Angeles is strongly preferred. 

Personal Qualities: 

• Positive, welcoming attitude. Must take great pride in creating content that represents Angel City, our community, and our sponsors. Excellent work should be a personal goal!
• Ability to work flexible days/hours and pitch in where needed. Game days are typically on weekends.
• On occasion, everyone on the Angel City team will need to roll up their sleeves and do tasks above and below their job description. 
• Willingness to learn and grow. 
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ambitious spirit, innovative mind, and a heart for advancing the team mission. You must never rest on your laurels, nor rely on how things have been done before.

COMPENSATION

In addition to the benefits above, this role has a pay range between $55-$65k.