Social Media Programmer - FOS Tonight
Marketing & Communications, Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
USD 66,500-78k / year
Posted on Jul 9, 2026
Front Office Sports is seeking a Social Programmer focused on our new show FOS Tonight, with a background in sports, business media, or entertainment. The ideal teammate will help shape how audiences discover the Front Office Sports brand by deciding what content runs where, when, and why — turning a constant stream of stories, shows, interviews, and video assets into a sharp, high-performing content calendar.
This role is especially important as Front Office Sports continues to grow its multimedia and social video operation. The ideal candidate should understand how to take TV-style news segments, studio shows, interviews, and longer-form video programming and identify the strongest moments to be turned into shareable clips for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and other emerging platforms.
The ideal person for this role thinks like a scheduler, strategist, and social editor at once: equally comfortable reading platform analytics, writing strong social captions, making fast editorial calls, and spotting the clips, headlines, hooks, and formats that can help a story travel across platforms. This person should understand platform best practices, know how to package content natively for each audience, and be comfortable managing the day-to-day processes of programming, posting, and community engagement.
Our Social Programmer will work closely with and report to the Manager of Social Media.
- Application Deadline
- September 08, 2026
- Department
- Multimedia
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Location
- New York, New York
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Compensation
- $66,500 - $78,000 / year
- Reporting To
- Manager, Social Media
Key Responsibilities
- Build and manage the day-to-day publishing calendar and cadence across Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and emerging platforms
- Program and distribute social-first video clips from Front Office Sports studio shows, interviews, news segments, explainers, and other multimedia programming
- Identify the most compelling moments from longer-form video and TV-style news content, helping turn them into platform-native clips with strong hooks, captions, headlines, thumbnails, and posting strategy
- Write strong, accurate, and engaging social captions that reflect the Front Office Sports voice while optimizing for platform behavior and audience engagement
- Understand and apply platform-specific best practices across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms, including caption length, posting cadence, video formatting, thumbnails, headlines, hashtags, tagging, comments, and community behavior
- Own the daily process of programming, scheduling, posting, and tracking content across social platforms
- Partner with editorial, design, and video teams to prioritize and sequence content for maximum reach and engagement
- Analyze platform performance data to inform programming decisions and optimize posting strategy in real time.
- Identify breaking news and trending moments and fast-track relevant content into the publishing queue
- Support community management across platforms, including monitoring comments, identifying audience feedback, surfacing relevant conversations, and helping maintain a smart, engaged, and brand-safe presence
- Maintain Brand Excellence: ensure programming decisions reflect consistent voice, typography, color, layout, and visual identity
- Monitor platform algorithm changes and emerging formats, recommending adjustments to programming strategy across short-form video, vertical video, livestream clips, YouTube packaging, and other social formats
- Coordinate with the broader social, editorial, video, and production teams to avoid scheduling conflicts and ensure balanced platform coverage
- Help ensure that major Front Office Sports video franchises and studio programming are consistently translated into social assets that feel native to each platform
- Ad hoc projects and other operational/administrative support as needed
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- 1–3 years of experience programming, scheduling, posting, or distributing content for a brand, publisher, sports media company, entertainment company, or news organization
- Strong understanding of sports news and the cultural and business impact of major headlines
- Experience identifying strong social video moments from longer-form content, including interviews, studio shows, podcasts, news segments, or live programming
- Strong caption-writing skills with the ability to make sports, business, and culture stories feel sharp, clear, and engaging for social audiences
- Strong understanding of platform best practices across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn, and emerging platforms
- Experience with the day-to-day mechanics of social publishing, including programming calendars, scheduling tools, posting workflows, community management, and performance tracking
- Comfort working with social analytics and scheduling/publishing tools
- Entrepreneurial mindset or startup experience with a “can do” attitude that gets things done
- Strong understanding of content strategy, audience behavior, platform-specific packaging, and social-first storytelling
- Experience programming for social-first environments and digital publishing
- Ability to take initiative and ownership, balancing autonomous project work and collaboration
- Detail-oriented, process-oriented, solutions-oriented
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Perks & Benefits
- Generous PTO policy to use as you please, plus sick time and company holidays
- Employer-sponsored health benefits, including medical, dental, and vision
- An annual professional development stipend and endless development opportunities at a growing startup
- Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan, complemented by a 3% company match. We believe in supporting your long-term financial goals
- Thrive in a dynamic environment with endless development opportunities at our growing startup
About Front Office Sports
Front Office Sports is the leading multiplatform media and news organization covering the business of sports, boasting an audience that every month delivers more than 200 million social impressions, 35 million newsletter opens, 50 million video views, and 2.5 million page views. In addition, with more than 15 distribution partners, FOS content appears on screens in more than 50,000 buildings and venues across North America. Front Office Sports was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2021, AdWeek’s Hottest in Sports in 2022 and 2024, and listed on Inc. 5000 in 2023 and 2025, recognizing the fastest-growing private companies in America.
Compensation at Front Office Sports
At Front Office Sports, we approach compensation with fairness and transparency. Each role has a salary range that reflects the responsibilities of the position, the current market, and the value we place on experience and skills. Where a candidate falls within that range depends on several factors, including their background, expertise, and location. Decisions about final offers are made based on these variables, but inclusion in the range does not guarantee an offer at the top end.
Compensation at Front Office Sports
At Front Office Sports, we approach compensation with fairness and transparency. Each role has a salary range that reflects the responsibilities of the position, the current market, and the value we place on experience and skills. Where a candidate falls within that range depends on several factors, including their background, expertise, and location. Decisions about final offers are made based on these variables, but inclusion in the range does not guarantee an offer at the top end.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Front Office Sports is an equal opportunity employer and enthusiastically encourages people from a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences to apply. We will consider all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical and/or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
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