Job Title: Community Management Specialist – Global Digital Marketing

Location: Beaverton, OR (Onsite – 4/1 schedule, no remote)

Duration: 10 Months contract

Openings: 2 (Track A – Global Football · Track B – Flagship & Sportswear)

About The Team

• In Global Digital Marketing, the role is to connect athletes with the best of the brand and to elevate their world, at the pace of sport and culture, in the places and spaces that matter most to them.

• This team delivers disruptive digital strategies that create consumer value by maximizing brand concepts in service of making athlete dreams real.

Who We Are Looking For

• A Community Manager who sits at the intersection of culture, conversation, and craft within social.

• The Community Management Specialist actively seeks out, participates in, and shapes conversations across key workstreams — seasonal campaigns and the always-on daily offense — in ways that feel authentic, timely, and athlete-led.

• Track A (Global Football): passionate about global football/soccer and the culture of the game, with a real understanding of the sport's nuances and how to connect with the consumer.

• Track B (Flagship & Sportswear): passionate about sport (all sport) and sportswear, sneaker culture, streetwear, counter-culture, and emerging trends in fashion; great writing skills, a good sense of humour, and a genuine love of seeking out the next meaningful conversation online.

• Someone with a finger on the pulse of sport, culture, and youth who brings ideas for how the brand can connect and deliver consumer value.

What You Will Work On

• Work within the Global Digital Marketing team in a critical supporting role to the daily social offense — helping deliver disruptive ideas and orchestrating digital experiences that drive growth across footwear and apparel.

• Support the Global Digital Marketing Leads and Experts on larger-scale marketing plans.

• Attend and contribute to meetings with cross-functional and geo partners, representing the digital conversation in the development and execution of marketing plans.

• Manage comments and community conversation across the brand's flagship and sportswear handles, working closely alongside community managers.

• Drive meaningful conversation across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, and Threads.

Who You Will Work With

• Reports into senior Global Digital Marketing leadership (Global Social Media Director / Sr Director, Global Digital Marketing).

• In a matrixed organization, partners closely with Global Brand Management, Integrated Media, Social, Comms, Sports Marketing, and Creative — in Global and with Geography partners in North America, APLA, Greater China, and EMEA.

• Works with external agencies as needed to bring work to life.

MUST-HAVE

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and training.

• 3+ years of social and community management experience.

• Extremely confident writer with a natural, human voice, able to take on brand tone and switch by channel and placement.

• Expertise and knowledge of youth culture, athlete mindset, and genuine excitement for sport culture — Track A: global football; Track B: sneaker, streetwear, and subculture (music, gaming, fashion, art, design also wOur Companyome).

• Fluent in the language, rituals, and motivations of different football/style communities, and knows how to enter conversation in ways that add value, spark thought and invite participation.

• Strong social listening instincts — able to find the right conversation, not just respond to mentions.

• Ability to engage thoughtfully in conversations that are provocative, motivational, or insight-led without feeling brand-forward.

• Client of the brand: proven experience representing brands and keeping branding and tone consistent.

• Clear understanding of social platforms, engagement mechanics, reposting best practices, and community norms.

• Strong analytical and synthesis skills — spots patterns, themes, and cultural signals across conversation.

• Effective communicator, written and verbal; great interpersonal skills and teamwork mentality across brand, creative, paid media, retail, social, and comms.

• Agile mentality; comfortable working independently in a fast-moving social environment while collaborating cross-functionally.

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with key tools such as Airtable, Keynote, and Figma.

• Sharp eye for athlete and community content across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X.

• Portfolio with examples and visualization of work.

• Stakeholder management — managing up, moving work through approvals, building trust.

• Experience with flagship/partnership deals.

• Backgrounds from competitor brands, fashion, sports, music, film marketing, or the arts.

• Recent large consumer/retail brand experience.

• Proactive and creative thinker.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE SUBSTITUTIONS

• Bachelor's degree or an equivalent combination of relevant education, experience, and training.

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