SEASONAL - Social Media Graphics Designer

Unrivaled Basketball•Miami, FL

2d•Remote

About The Position

Unrivaled is seeking a Social Media Graphics Designer to help bring the league to life across its social and digital platforms for the 2026–2027 season. This is a highly execution-focused creative role for a designer who understands the speed, energy, and visual language of sports and social media. The ideal candidate can move quickly without sacrificing quality, understands how design changes across platforms like Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube, and can transform information, moments, statistics, photography, and creative concepts into compelling graphics that fans will engage with and share. This person will collaborate closely with Unrivaled's Content, Social, Marketing, Basketball Operations, Partnerships, and Creative teams.

Requirements

Approximately 2–5 years of professional graphic design experience, preferably in sports, entertainment, media, culture, or a fast-moving consumer brand.
Strong portfolio demonstrating social-first graphic design.
Excellent understanding of typography, composition, hierarchy, color, photography, and visual storytelling.
Advanced proficiency with Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
Ability to work quickly and produce high-quality creative under tight deadlines.
Strong understanding of how creative performs differently across social platforms.
Comfortable working with sports photography and creating graphics around live events.
Strong attention to detail, particularly around player names, statistics, scores, sponsor requirements, and brand guidelines.
Ability to receive feedback, make adjustments quickly, and collaborate with multiple departments.
Comfortable working in an environment where priorities can change rapidly.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with After Effects, Premiere Pro, Figma, or other motion/design tools.
Knowledge of basketball and women's sports is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Create daily graphics for Unrivaled's social platforms (Instagram, X, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, and emerging platforms).
Design both planned and reactive content for games, players, teams, league news, cultural moments, and breaking news.
Create graphics optimized for each specific platform, rather than simply resizing the same creative.
Support high-volume content needs during the Unrivaled season while maintaining brand consistency and quality.
Develop reusable templates to enable the social team to work quickly during games and breaking news.
Create game-day graphics including matchups, tune-in information, starting lineups, player statistics, scores, standings, records, milestones, player achievements, quotes, and schedule information.
Design playoff and championship graphics.
Support real-time graphics production during live games and major league events.
Transform basketball statistics and storylines into visually compelling, easy-to-understand social content.
Work with photography and video teams to rapidly create assets from live events.
Develop graphics that showcase the personalities, accomplishments, and stories of Unrivaled players.
Create distinct creative executions for Unrivaled's clubs while maintaining the overall league identity.
Support player announcements, roster announcements, transactions, awards, milestones, birthdays, and other player-driven moments.
Help develop recurring social franchises and visual series that fans will recognize.
Support graphics needs for league marketing campaigns.
Create assets for ticket sales, tune-in, merchandise, events, community programs, and league announcements.
Adapt major campaign creative into social-first executions.
Help maintain consistency between Unrivaled's broader brand identity and its daily social presence.
Work with the Partnerships and Content teams to create sponsored social graphics and branded content.
Incorporate partner branding while protecting the look, feel, and authenticity of Unrivaled.
Execute contracted partner deliverables accurately and on deadline.
Help find creative ways to integrate sponsors into social content without making it feel overly commercial.
Participate in brainstorms for campaigns, player storytelling, social franchises, and major league moments.
Bring forward new design trends, formats, memes, visual styles, and social behaviors that could work for Unrivaled.
Experiment with typography, photography, illustration, data visualization, motion, and other techniques.
Help evolve Unrivaled's social design language as the league grows.