Creative Social Media Manager Football Esports / Gaming

Role description

This fully remote Creative Social Media Manager role is a freelance contract position for 2027, with flexible weekly hours. You’ll help manage and grow social media channels at the intersection of football and gaming, including our work across FIFAe. You will plan and run platform-specific content calendars across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube and X, come up with creative ideas that grow our channels, and turn them into clear briefings for our editors and designers.

Day-to-day tasks include:

• coming up with creative content ideas and campaigns
• spotting trends early and turning them into platform-native formats
• tracking performance and optimising content based on analytics and audience insights
• organizing the content plan
• breief video editors, graphic designers and other team members on creative ideas
• prepare production plans and creative ideas for upcoming events
• align with the social lead across planning, ideation, reporting and more

You’ll coordinate with our internal team on campaign requirements, and support content around live esports events. We expect you to work independently, meet agreed deadlines, and proactively suggest improvements to strategy and execution.

Qualifications

• Strong social media marketing and optimisation skills: you can plan campaigns, grow audiences and improve engagement across platforms.
• A creative eye for short-form content, with a feel for hooks, formats and trends on TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
• Content strategy skills: structured content plans, posts aligned with business goals, and ideas adapted to each channel.
• Strong organisation and time management, so you can juggle several campaigns and deadlines in a remote setup.
• Proven experience managing social media accounts for brands, organisations or communities. Experience in gaming, esports, football or digital entertainment is a strong plus.
• Comfortable with remote collaboration and project management tools.
• Fluent English. Other languages are a plus.

How to apply

We only accept applications through our application form, which includes a short task (about 20 minutes):

👉 forms.gle/cXcbXKKynmVrNVp3A

Please don’t send CVs or applications by direct message or email. We won’t be able to consider applications that don’t come through the form.