Curveball Digital | Social Content and Strategy Lead

Curveball are looking for a Social Content and Strategy Lead to come to our rapidly growing team in London, working with clients across the world of sport 🏎️ 🎾 🚤 🏏 🏋️ ♀️ ⛳️ ⚽️

For any applications, please send examples of your work to apply@curveball.digital

WHO ARE CURVEBALL?

We\’re an award-winning Social Creative Agency specialising in sports production, social media and content strategy.

We started as a two (Paddy and Kev) with a passion for storytelling and how social media can bring fans closer to the action and their heroes. In previous roles, they developed content series and social campaigns around the world\’s biggest sporting events, and for almost four years they\’ve been helping brands, rightsholders and federations reach more people through high-end content and innovative social strategies

We\’re now a team of 10 with some big nominations and awards under our belt, a new office and a fantastic group of creatives, creating promos, social campaign strategies, branded content, short-form social features, and both long and short-form content for big brands, sports organisations and agencies. We cover a wide range of content and account management all over the world too and get to go to some amazing events!

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We believe that content for social should always be created with a clear purpose and that understanding why someone would engage with what you\’re creating is the key to success. Our ideal candidate will be able to treat each client’s goals and needs individually, and create tailored strategies and creative using all the tools available to help them succeed.

In social and sport, it\’s vital to be proactive and always planning for the next big moment. The Social Content and Strategy Lead will be always looking for opportunities to make something different, be a meticulous planner and someone who isn\’t just on top of trends, but creating their own.

Most importantly, the right person will be able to engage an audience in a 10-second video or piece of Hero Artwork as well as they can in a 10-minute feature or challenge.

PREFERENTIAL SKILLS, PLEASE PROVIDE EXAMPLES IN APPLICATION

• Expert understanding of social media, including why people engage with content and how they use certain platforms, specifically in sport
• Using that knowledge to create planned and reactive creative content for social
• Good knowledge and experience of paid campaigns, influencers, organic amplification and purely organic social strategies – and the ability to balance these effectively into a tailored strategy for each client
• Proactive mindset, always looking to get a step ahead and plan for the next big project
• 3+ years experience managing creative content strategy and production for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube and other social platforms
• Ability to plan ahead and create content campaigns for social media as well as create or commission world-class reactive content for short turnaround projects
• Understanding and ability to use relevant Adobe Creative Cloud apps
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative analytics to produce social media reports for clients
• Deep knowledge of and passion for sport

DAY-TO-DAY TASKS

• Developing long and short-term social media strategies for our clients’ channels
• Conceptualising and developing video, design and campaign ideas for clients
• Commissioning creative content to meet client / project demands
• Creating industry-leading content for clients and campaigns
• Analysing the industry for opportunities and reporting back to the wider team
• Working with wider team to improve their knowledge of social media trends and in turn improving the content we create at Curveball Digital
• Overseeing publishing of content across clients social media channels by in-house and freelance network
• On-location work for client events and competitions

You don’t have to do all of these skills to apply, we\’re open to talking to people different stages of their career – besides, we offer a company-funded Personal Development Scheme that can help train you up in relevant areas.

And that’s not all – we like to look after our team at Curveball so our jobs come with:

• 25 days holiday + all public holidays
• Birthday off every year
• £1000 Personal Development Fund
• One month paid sabbatical after five years
• Cycle to work scheme
• Pension
• Healthcare (Dental, Optical, Mental included)
• Hi-spec MacBook

So if you’re looking to join a creative team working in sport and with big ambitions, then we’d love to hear from you. Start by checking us out here

www.curveball.digital and send over an application with a bit about you and some examples of your previous work to apply@curveball.digital