The Athletic
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Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager (New York)
Onsite
— New York, NY
(NYC Metro preferred)
Remote
(other locations considered)
Senior partnerships role at The Athletic managing complex league and commercial deals across editorial, audio, social, and product teams. NYC preferred but flexible. No salary listed; heavy cross-functional collaboration with 500+ person newsroom.
About the Role
About Us
Powered by one of the largest global newsrooms in sports media, The Athletic brings sports fans the most comprehensive stories about the teams, sports and athletes they love. The Athletic’s newsroom of 500+ full-time staff delivers in-depth coverage of hundreds of professional and college teams across more than 47 North American markets and all 20 football clubs in the English Premier League, as well as many Championship clubs.
About This Role
We are looking for a Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager to apply their skills in business operations and partner management - supporting senior leadership and working across all functions to maximize the business impact of The Athletic’s large and growing commercial organization and league partnerships business. Our ideal candidate will be experienced in partner management, business development, cross-platform advertising programs, and business operations within the sports partnerships industry, and have familiarity with managing large and complex strategic partnerships.
Partnership management is a team sport, and you will be an expert collaborator responsible for executing innovative, integrated partnership programs in collaboration with Strategy, Planning, Legal, Finance, Audio, Editorial, Social, Product, Marketing, and PR teams to execute compelling, strategic cross-platform programs for our strategic partners that drive company revenue across all sports verticals.
The ideal candidate is based in the greater New York City Metro area. Candidates in other locations will also be considered however.
Required Skills
Strategic Thinking
Project Management
Communication
Nice to Have
Team Leadership
Social Media
Content Strategy
