About Whittingham SportsWhittingham Sports is a fast growing sports marketing agency helping leagues, teams, and athletes grow and monetize their fanbases through content, strategy, and amplification. Founded by award winning sports executive Kyle Whittingham and backed by industry leaders, the company has already helped launch new leagues and grow sports brands from the ground up, including the Pro Padel League and Real American Freestyle.
We’re looking for someone who’s ready to get their hands dirty, create content that fans actually care about, and help build something big. If you love sports, storytelling, and startup energy, you’ll fit right in.
Our Values• Speed Wins: We don’t sit on ideas, we make them happen.
• Work Hard, Work Smart: Relentless effort meets sharp strategy.
• Grit Over Glamour: We chase greatness, not shortcuts.
• Real Relationships: We build trust that lasts beyond campaigns.
• Agility is Our Advantage: We pivot fast and seize opportunities.
• Winning Together: No passengers. Only partners.
Why You’ll Love Working Here• Direct mentorship and feedback from industry leaders across social strategy, content, and digital growth
• Real, hands-on experience working on professional sports leagues, teams, athletes, and brands
• Live event experience supporting publishing, coverage, and storytelling in fast-paced, real-world environments
• Training on professional agency workflows and tools used to run large-scale content operations and distributed creative teams
• The opportunity to build a strong portfolio with real performance results you can speak to in future roles
• A clear path to future opportunities with Whittingham Sports for top performers
• Remote working & competitive pay
About the positionWhittingham Sports is seeking Social Media Coordinators to support content and social execution for various clients. This internship is built for someone who lives online, understands culture, and wants real reps working on a rising professional sports league.
You’ll help ideate content, track trends, build calendars, write copy, and publish across social platforms creating content fans actually care about. If you love sports, storytelling, and fast-moving environments, you’ll fit right in.
Key Responsibilities• Content ideation informed by trends, athletes, and storytelling
• Trend identification and surfacing relevant memes/cultural moments in real time
• Creating content briefs for videographers, editors, and designers
• Managing content calendars across IG, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, Facebook, X, Threads, and Linkedin
• Writing captions and publishing natively to platforms
• Tracking social performance and platform metrics
• Supporting community management across team channels
• Supporting live event coverage during league events
Requirements• In-tune with social trends and culture before they hit
• Fast to react to memes, trending sounds, and cultural moments
• Prior social media internship or brand/organization experience
• Fluent across IG, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, X/Twitter
• Excellent written + verbal communication skills
• Pursuing a degree (or recent graduate) in Marketing, Digital Media, Communications or related fields
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple tasks
• Must be available up to 20 hours per week
• Must be available to support event weekends remotely during league events
Preferred Skills• Spanish speaking (professional or conversational proficiency)
• Video editing experience (CapCut, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, etc.)
• Graphic design experience (Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, or similar tools)
