Social Media Manager - Motorsport
Location: Chiswick W4, London (Hybrid, minimum 3 days in the office)
Type: Full-time
Start: Immediate – April 2025
About 16K Agency
16K Agency is a leading creative and social media agency based in London, specialising in Formula 1, motorsport content, and social media. We work with top brands in F1, including sponsors, teams, and drivers, to produce high-impact videos and visual content for social media and digital platforms. Known for thriving in fast-paced environments, our team consistently pushes the boundaries of creativity and content production.
Overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and creative Social Media Manager with a strong background in sport or motorsport to deliver best-in-class social media across global brands. This role is ideal for someone who is both strategic and hands-on, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and understands the nuances of sports content, fan engagement, and live event coverage.
You will be responsible for managing day-to-day social activity across multiple client accounts, supporting strategy execution, and working closely with internal teams to deliver standout content and campaigns.
Key Responsibilities
* Content Planning & Execution: Manage day-to-day social media activity across client accounts, including content scheduling, publishing, and optimisation.
* Strategy Support: Support the development and implementation of social media strategies aligned with client goals and campaign objectives.
* Content Creation & Ideation: Contribute to content ideas and briefs, ensuring creative, platform-first thinking across all outputs as well as edit images and videos in Adobe/TikTok/IG.
* Campaign Delivery: Execute social campaigns around key moments such as race weekends, sponsorship activations, and live events.
* Client Management: Act as a key point of contact for clients on social media deliverables, ensuring clear communication and high-quality execution.
* Performance & Reporting: Monitor social performance, produce regular reports, and provide insights to improve engagement and results.
* Platform & Trend Awareness: Stay up to date with social media trends, platform updates, and best practices, applying these to client work.
* Community Management: Support audience engagement, including responding to comments, messages, and reactive content opportunities, particularly during live sporting moments.
* Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with creative, content, and production teams to deliver cohesive and impactful social content.
* Paid Social Coordination: Collaborate with the clients paid media teams to ensure alignment between organic and paid strategies.
* Talent management: Some of our clients work with talent and influencers and you will need to support ideations, briefing and general production support.
Requirements
* 3-5+ years of experience in professional social media management within sport, motorsport or global brands (essential)
* Strong understanding of sports audiences, live event coverage, and real-time content
* Experience managing multiple accounts and delivering campaigns in fast-paced environments
* Strong knowledge of social platforms, trends, and performance metrics
* Confident communicator with client-facing experience
* Highly-organised with strong attention to detail
* Ability to work under pressure and react quickly during live events as well as on F1 race weekends.
* In app - editing experience (tiktok, lightroom and similar)
* Photoshop & Lightroom experience
Merited
* Driving license
Benefits
* Excellent creative & social colleagues
* Extensive international travel
* Race Crew Bonus
* Private Health Insurance (Vitality)
* Standard UK leave and pension benefits
* Day off for your birthday
* Hybrid working
* Growing & ambitious creative agency
* Bike & tech scheme
How To Apply
Apply via LinkedIn, or via email to Ben at - title “Social Media Manager - Motorsport”
You must include links to previous work.