Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. PlayOn Sports is a growth-stage company that provides technology and services supporting high school athletics through brands including MaxPreps, GoFan, and NFHS Network. The Senior Manager, Content Operations will lead content operations, connect Content with Revenue, Marketing, Design, and Product, and build repeatable systems that support audience growth, commercial opportunities, editorial standards, and sustainable team capacity.
Responsibilities
- Build the systems, workflows and operating rhythms that help the Content organization prioritize, plan and execute across editorial, social, production and commercial initiatives. While this role sits on the content team, ensuring revenue growth is a key metric for success
- Bridging the Content team with Marketing, Product and Design to ensure the company’s biggest content initiatives drive traffic and awareness back to MaxPreps, as well as down-funnel growth for membership and subscription services. This role requires a cross-functional thinker who can define the intent and target audience behind content decisions
- Build the systems, workflows and operating rhythms that help the Content organization prioritize, plan and execute across editorial, social, production and commercial initiatives
- Serve as the primary connection point between Content and Revenue/Client Strategy, translating commercial priorities into content-ready plans and making content capabilities and constraints clear to sellers
- Using the learnings from the Content-Revenue relationship, build and continually refine the workflows, templates, and playbooks that connect Content to other teams (Marketing, Design, Product). Initiatives such as sponsorship packaging, revenue-friendly social formats, RFP/pitch creative development, pre- and post-sale production coordination transition from one-off custom asks to repeatable systems incorporating all key stakeholders
- Apply strong editorial judgment and operational judgment to assess budgets, timelines and resource needs across Content priorities and commercial opportunities
- Own agendas, action items, and timeline tracking for recurring meetings between Content and other teams so every stakeholder knows what they own and by when. Marketing and design are key stakeholders, with this role overcommunicating and working closely with both departments, especially around major company tentpole events
- Partner on flagship MaxPreps/PlayOn initiatives (e.g., Game of the Week, Flag Football Showdown) to ensure they deliver for both audience and brand-partner goals, including post-event reporting that supports renewed partnerships
- Draft rough budgets and production timelines for custom, partner-driven content executions, and advocate for the resourcing the Content team needs to deliver
- Proactively identify when an existing high-performing organic content series could be evolved to appeal to brand partners — without compromising what makes it work for the audience
- Build and maintain the process muscle across Content and its cross-functional partners (revenue, marketing, product, design). Documented workflows, clear ownership, decision rights and playbooks that reduce one-off firefighting
- Prepare and lead cross-functional syncs — building agendas, distributing action items, and following up to keep every workstream on schedule
- Support post-mortem materials after major tentpole events to help position MaxPreps for recurring business with brand partners
- Balance commercial opportunity against audience trust, editorial integrity, organic programming priorities, and sustainable team capacity in every recommendation you make
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in content operations, integrated marketing, brand partnerships, or a similar role connecting editorial/creative and commercial teams
- Genuine fluency in content and revenue — an appreciation for content's role in building audience loyalty and trust, and revenue's role in adding to (rather than detracting from) that relationship
- A process-first mindset: comfort turning every one-off custom request into a repeatable workflow or playbook, and the discipline to hold teams accountable to deadlines
- Strong editorial judgment, including the ability to reasonably estimate production budgets and timelines and to speak on behalf of the content team's standards and capacity
- Excellent program-management instincts — running agendas, tracking action items, and proactively communicating with key decision-makers on both sides
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; comfortable serving as a translator and trusted advisor to both content and sales leadership
- Ability to thrive with a high degree of autonomy in a fast-moving, growth-stage environment
- Genuine passion for high school and youth sports and an instinctive appreciation for what's at stake in telling these stories well for the athletes, families, schools, and fans who depend on them — prior industry experience is a plus, not a requirement
Benefits
- Multiple medical insurance plans to choose from; must be a full-time employee to participate in the company’s employee health benefit plan. Part-time employees and interns are not eligible to participate.
- Dental, vision, life and disability insurance
- Employee Emergency Fund
- Company equity (stock options)
- Open PTO policy
- 401K plan with company match
- Hybrid/flexible work environment
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