Social Media / Content Designer

About the Role

FloSports is seeking a Social Media Designer to enhance the presentation of our sports, athletes, events, and stories across social and digital platforms. This role is part of the Creative team and works closely with the Content organization. The Creative team provides brand direction, design standards, mentorship, and visual vision, while the Content team manages daily priorities and workload.

Responsibilities

• Create high-quality, social-first graphics for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X, Facebook, and emerging platforms.
• Design thumbnails, breaking-news graphics, athlete and event storytelling, stats, rankings, results, promotional content, and other daily social assets.
• Partner with Content teams to quickly turn stories, moments, and ideas into compelling visual content.
• Build scalable templates, toolkits, and design systems to help Content teams create efficiently while staying on brand.
• Own and evolve the visual approach for recurring content formats across multiple FloSports verticals.
• Translate FloSports brand standards into practical solutions that work within the speed and demands of social media.
• Maintain consistency in typography, color, logo usage, composition, and overall visual quality across Content-created assets.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing social formats rather than simply using legacy templates.
• Experiment with new visual styles, formats, motion, AI tools, and emerging creative techniques to enhance social content quality and speed.
• Collaborate with designers, editors, producers, social leads, and other content creators across FloSports.
• Balance speed with craft, knowing when to prioritize quick delivery and when to invest in elevated creative approaches.
• Stay current on sports culture, social design trends, platform behaviors, and how leading sports and media brands evolve their content.

Qualifications

• A strong portfolio demonstrating social-first design, visual storytelling, typography, composition, and brand thinking.
• Experience designing for social media, digital content, sports, entertainment, media, or a similarly fast-paced environment.
• Strong Photoshop and Illustrator skills.
• Experience with After Effects, Premiere, Figma, or other motion/content creation tools is a major plus.
• Understanding of what makes creative effective across different social platforms.
• Ability to work quickly and manage multiple requests without sacrificing attention to detail.
• Comfortable working within an established brand system while knowing when and how to push it forward.
• Strong collaborator who can take direction from Creative while working closely with Content stakeholders daily.
• Comfortable creating both one-off, high-impact pieces and scalable systems for other creators.
• Interest in sports and an understanding of fan culture is strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Recognized three years in a row as a Top Workplace by the Austin-American Statesman.
• Flexibility at work – control over professional and personal schedules.
• All-hands events hosted in Austin, Texas.
• Annual equity awards for top performers.
• Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Company-paid short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Generous 401(K) company match, vested immediately.
• Progressive parental leave policies.
• Flexible paid time off.
• Hack-a-thons and team-building events.
• Company donations to youth teams and leagues coached by employees.
• Stocked snack bar, catered lunch, and weekly breakfast tacos.

Some work may occur on select nights and weekends.