Overview
Chief Operating Officer Jobs in North Carolina, United States at NIL TV
Title: Chief Operating Officer
Company: NIL TV
Location: North Carolina, United States
COO – NIL TV
Base salary $100K plus equity
5+ years of operational leadership experience, including at least 2 years at an early-stage startup (Seed through Series B)
ABOUT NIL TV
NIL TV is a digital media network powered by Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) athlete influencers. We sit at the intersection of college athletics, creator culture, and next generation social media giving fans direct access to the athletes they love through exclusive content, live programming, and influencer driven storytelling.
We recently closed our seed round and are experiencing rapid, unplanned growth that has validated our model faster than anticipated. We are now preparing for a second seed raise and need operational leadership that can match our momentum someone who thrives in ambiguity, builds systems from scratch and executes with urgency.
THE ROLE:
We are hiring our founding Chief Operating Officer; a hands-on operator who will partner directly with the CEO to build the infrastructure behind a company growing faster than planned. This is a builder's role.
You will be creating processes, managing a roster of NIL athlete influencers, driving our social and
digital media operations and helping tell our story to investors as we head into our next raise.
The right candidate is motivated, understands there is no clock in a rapidly growing start-up, energized by problems that don't have playbooks yet, understands how social platforms actually work, and can context switch between talent management, operations, and investor prep without missing a beat.
We are transparent about what this role is: a startup COO position with startup realities ambiguity, long stretches during critical milestones, and situations where the playbook does not exist yet. We are equally transparent about the upside: this is one of the most exciting opportunities in sports media right now, and we are looking for someone who sees it the same way.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Operations & Company Building
- Design and implement core operational processes, tools, and workflows largely from scratch
- Act as the connective tissue between content, talent, product, and finance
- Manage day-to-day operations in a high-velocity environment where priorities shift quickly
- Anticipate growth related bottlenecks and resolve them before they become crises
- Build scalable systems that can support a Series A trajectory without slowing the company down today
NIL Talent & Influencer Network
• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and ongoing management of NIL athlete influencer partnerships
- Develop deal structures, compliance frameworks, and performance expectations for NIL talent
- Serve as a key relationship owner for athletes, agents, and university compliance offices
- Build programs that maximize athlete content output and audience engagement across platforms
Social & Digital Media
- Drive distribution strategy across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and emerging platforms
- Partner with content and marketing to align influencer programming with platform algorithms and growth goals
- Own key performance metrics: follower growth, engagement rates, content velocity, and monetization KPIs
- Monitor platform changes and adapt strategy quickly no slow pivots
Finance & Investor Relations Support
- Manage budgets, burn rate, and resource allocation with a lean startup mindset
- Prepare operational data and metrics to support the upcoming second seed round
- Partner with the CEO to build investor materials, due diligence packages, and growth models
- Manage vendor, technology partner, and service provider relationships
QUALIFICATIONS:
Required
• 5+ years of operational leadership experience, including at least 2 years at an early-stage startup (Seed through Series B)
- Demonstrated ability to build teams, processes, and culture in high growth, resource constrained environments
- Deep, practical knowledge of social and digital media platforms you have run accounts, studied algorithms, and driven measurable growth
- Experience working with talent, influencers, or creator networks NIL, sports, or entertainment background strongly preferred
- Comfortable making sound decisions with incomplete information and moving with urgency
- Strong financial acumen able to read a P&L, build a basic model, and speak honestly about burn
- Exceptional communication and relationship management skills across athletes, investors, and internal teams
Preferred
- Background in sports, media, or the entertainment ecosystem
- Experience supporting a venture fundraise, including pitch prep and investor update cadences
- Familiarity with creator monetization platforms
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS:
- Base salary: $100,000
- Equity: Meaningful option package as we want you to own a piece of what we are building (details discussed during interview process)
- Health: Coverage will be initiated after the completion of next round of fundraising.
- Work arrangement: Durham, NC/Remote with flexibility to travel for key events, athlete activations, and investor meetings
- Growth: COO is the Sixth employee in so compensation expected to scale as the company scales
WHY NIL TV:
- The NIL market is on a hockey stick trajectory, and we are positioned to be the definitive media home for athlete creators
- Seed funding closed, second raise in motion you are joining at the most consequential inflection point
- Direct partnership with the CEO with no layers, no bureaucracy, genuine ownership
- Content that athletes and fans actually engage with our traction is real
- The opportunity to build something that has not existed before in college sports
HOW TO APPLY:
- Send your resume along with a brief note of no more than one page describing a time you built something operational from the ground up and what you learned from it. We care far more about your track record and mindset than your resume headline.
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. We move quickly.
