General Manager - ZogSports Is Expanding To The Twin Cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco

Job Description

Description:  Run your own business without the risk or capital investment of buying into a franchise.  This is an opportunity to build and manage all aspects of ZogSports’ operations in the your city and become a part of the ZogSports family. We are looking for General Managers in:

1) The Twin Cities

2) Los Angeles

3) San Francisco

ZogSports has been delivering fun sports to young professionals since 2002 and we currently have operations in New York, New Jersey, Washington DC, and Atlanta. This position will be semi-autonomous with the tremendous support of the successful NY-based team.  The GM will be responsible for managing all aspects of our charity-focused, co-ed, social sports leagues and activities for young professionals.  This includes all aspects of planning, hiring, budgeting and running events on evenings and weekends. 

The GM will benefit from existing ZogSports infrastructure (including state-of-the-art custom-built league management software, a comprehensive interactive operations manual and a team with 20+ years of experience).  They will work out of a local office in their city, but start with several weeks of training in New York.  The GM will be part of our national team and support all efforts/projects designed to build the infrastructure of the company and help it grow.

We're looking for a fun, team player who is reliable and organized, cares about their work, and strives for continuous improvement.

Warning: To consider this position, you must be comfortable being a catalyst to help socially consumed recreational athletes seek accomplices and a venue to help them cling to their youth.

The ideal candidate is:

1) Passionate about sports / ideally played in recreational sport leagues in the city

2) Fun, outgoing, and social

3) A good networker / has a network in the city that is in the customer demo who would likely play in our leagues

4) Entrepreneurial

5) Very familiar with the city

6) Someone with 4-8 years of business experience

Responsibilities and duties include:

• Planning and management, including staffing, communications, logistics and customer service for any and all ZogSports leagues, tournaments, trips, classes, clinics, social events and volunteer opportunities
• Field/gym procurement and ongoing facility relationship management
• Hiring, training and managing all part-time and full-time staff
• Customer, vendor and partner communications
• Development, customization and dissemination of marketing materials
• Relationship management for all marketing partners including: clubs, companies and other organizations
• Public relations events/projects
• Marketing research and identification/conversion of new members and business opportunities/partners
• Development and maintenance of social media strategy
• League management software (website, content management system and backend admin) management
• Profitability analysis
• Budgeting/finance/accounting
• All other activities necessary to help the build and grow the business

Job Qualifications

REQUIRED: 

• BA or BS degree
• Tremendous leadership, drive and enthusiasm
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• 4-8 years of business experience
• Ability to handle multiple projects at one time
• Excellent organization skills and attention to detail
• Ability to work independently as well as within a team
• Self-starter/resourceful, great problem solver

PREFERRED:

• Familiarity with Minneapolis/St. Paul area, Los Angeles, or San Francisco
• Strong knowledge of PC/network environment including Microsoft Excel, Internet, Windows XP
• Online marketing experience (e.g., Facebook, GoogleAdwords, email campaigns)
• Web development/technology experience
• Knowledge of organized sports, business of sports, and sports marketing

• Please email your resume and a cover letter to amy@zogsports.com.  Please reference “General Manager Twin Cities”, “General Manager Los Angeles” or “General Manager San Francisco” depending on which city you are applying for in the subject field of your email correspondence.  
• Compensation package includes: salary commensurate with entrepreneurial start-up opportunity and significant upside via satellite profit sharing.  Details to be discussed during interview process.
• Due to the great number of resumes we receive daily, we regret that we are unable to respond individually to each person interested in our company, or answer inquiries regarding the status of a particular resume. If there is interest in interviewing you for this job, a representative from the ZogSports will contact you in the near future. Thank you for submitting your resume to ZogSports.

ZogSports is an Equal Employment Opportunity