Freelance Content Creator – Sports

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

🎬 Content Creator

🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Founded 2017

📣 Marketing

💼 Consulting

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💰 Series A on 2022-02

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📋 Description

• Help launch and grow the Overheard Sports page from day one • Define the page's voice, content pillars, and visual identity • Establish a consistent daily posting cadence • Develop and test recurring content formats and franchises • Track performance and iterate content to drive follower growth, shares, and saves • Write and publish original daily sports-culture content • Cover major sports leagues and events through a cultural and comedic lens • Write captions, headlines, copy, and scripts in the Overheard voice • Respond quickly to live and breaking moments during games, drafts, trades, awards shows, and tentpole events • Identify audience interests by monitoring comments, trends, and analytics • Spot emerging sports-culture conversations and turn insights into content ideas • Share audience and performance learnings with the Editor and Social team • Produce each post end to end, from idea through finished asset • Design memes, graphics, carousels, and text-based posts in Canva or similar tools • Shoot, edit, and package low-lift short-form videos using an iPhone or consumer-grade equipment • Bring ideas to pitch meetings and plan content around the sports calendar • Uphold Overheard's tone, point of view, aesthetics, and writing style • Collaborate with Creative, Social, and Editorial teams on launch, cross-promotion, and content experiments • Maintain editorial accuracy, clarity, comedic alignment, organization, and deadlines • Contribute to evolving creative best practices and playbooks

🎯 Requirements

• 2–4 years of experience in editorial, social content creation, sports media, publishing, entertainment, or a similar creative field • Exceptional writing skills with a comedic sensibility and ability to match Overheard's voice • Deep familiarity with sports and sports culture across multiple leagues • Familiarity with conversations female fans are having about sports online • Proven ability to ideate and execute social-first content across Instagram and TikTok • Comfortable using analytics and audience signals to guide content decisions • Ability to fully produce content, including memes, graphics, and carousels in Canva or similar • Ideally able to shoot and edit video on an iPhone or consumer-grade equipment • Strong understanding of meme culture, internet trends, and sports discourse • Highly organized and able to manage multiple content streams and deadlines independently • Flexibility to cover live events, including occasional evenings and weekends • Collaborative and communicative; excited to pitch, brainstorm, and build new formats • Experience launching or growing a social account is a strong plus • Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite, CapCut, or other lightweight video editing tools is a bonus • NYC preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Freelance / permalance engagement • Remote-friendly work arrangement • Flexible hours and cadence scoped with the Editor based on content volume and the sports calendar • Opportunity to help launch Overheard Sports from day one and shape its voice, content pillars, and visual identity • Opportunity to contribute ideas, build new formats, and develop creative playbooks

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