Join our team as a Social Media Coordinator, where you'll play an essential role in planning, creating, and executing content across Tennis Channel and Tennis.com’s global social media channels and websites. Each day, you’ll combine your creativity, passion for tennis, and awareness of social trends to produce high-quality, engaging content that resonates with our audience.

We’re looking for someone who is organized, driven, and eager to learn and grow. This position is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment that values innovation and creativity. Strong editorial judgment, a sharp eye for detail, and a genuine love for tennis are key to succeeding in this role.

You’ll work alongside a talented and supportive content team, embracing opportunities to push boundaries, tell impactful stories, and connect with a global tennis audience.

This role is based in our Santa Monica, CA office.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Post dynamic, engaging content across all social media platforms daily, including real-time match updates from tournaments in multiple time zones. Build compelling storylines that connect with and excite our audience, ensuring all content is accurate and resonates. Generate fresh, creative ideas for social media across current and emerging platforms (Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit and beyond). Craft grammatically and statistically accurate content that captivates and engages. Proactively ideate, take initiative, and independently execute campaigns and content, ensuring projects align with our brand objectives from start to finish. Stay ahead of the curve by monitoring daily social trends and analyzing competitor content. Use insights to pitch unique, standout ideas that differentiate our brand. Guide and support junior team members, offering feedback, sharing best practices, and helping them grow creatively. Create and edit eye-catching videos and graphics using Adobe Premiere, Photoshop, and Illustrator, tailoring content to align with platform-specific best practices. Work closely with production teams to plan, schedule, and execute high-quality content, ensuring seamless integration with the brand's voice and strategy. Assist team in organizing and planning of the social media calendar, monitoring interactions across brand channels, and fostering meaningful interactions with our audience. Assist in compiling analytics to create customized reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) and use insights to refine strategy.  Contribute to daily brainstorming sessions to enhance social media presence and overall marketing strategy. Collaborate with the team to continuously elevate the brand’s digital impact.

Required qualifications:

3-5 years’ experience in a fast-paced social media environment focused on content creation, preferably within the sports or entertainment industry A passion and knowledge of tennis, including players, tournaments, match dynamics, and historical context An understanding of internet culture and experience creating compelling digital media content across multiple social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Reddit, and YouTube Strong editorial judgment and critical thinking skills to craft narratives and translate them into engaging social media content Proficiency in video editing, graphic design software, and native social analytics tools Creativity, attention to detail, and a passion for social media and content production Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across teams Strong organizational and decision-making skills, with the ability to work well both independently and in a team environment in a fast-paced environment Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, online/multimedia, or a related field Availability to work mornings, nights, weekends, and holidays around the tennis calendar

Tennis Channel is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Drug Free Workplace!

About Tennis Channel

Tennis Channel is the media home to two twenty-four-hour television networks, a subscription streaming service, online magazine and podcasts dedicated to the sport and its unique lifestyle. The tennis-media hub is home to every aspect of the wide-ranging, worldwide tennis community. Tennis Channel is carried nationwide by every one of the top ten pay-TV service providers.

About Sinclair

Make your mark in Media with Sinclair Broadcast Group, a diversified media company dedicated to connecting people with content everywhere! We have consistently led the broadcast industry since our inception, and now Sinclair owns the largest regional sports network business and one of the largest television broadcast portfolios in the country. Also, we have affiliations with all of the major broadcast networks, our own Tennis Channel, and several multicast networks including TBD and Comet. Our content is distributed over-the-air, on multi-video providers, and through our industry-leading digital media platforms. Our success is the direct result of our extraordinary employees and management team who believe in our vision and are dedicated to ensuring a great future for our employees. We are advancing the world of Media and want YOU to join our winning team!

About the Team

The life-blood of our organization is our people. We have a compelling story, a goal-oriented culture, and we take really good care of people. How good? Here is a glimpse: great benefits, open-door policy, upward mobility and a strong desire to see you succeed. Ready to be part of a winning team? Let’s talk.

The base hourly compensation range for this role is $23.80 to $26.65 per hour. Final compensation for this role will be determined by various factors such as a candidates’ relevant work experience, skills, certifications, and geographic location. Full time positions are eligible for benefits that include participation in a retirement plan, life and disability insurance, health, dental and vision plans, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, vacation time, personal time, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.

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