Associate Manager Brand Strategy

New York City, NY (On-site)

$74K/yr – $101K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and help execute multi-phase ESPN brand initiatives, coordinating planning, content integration, and cross-platform activations while tracking KPIs and maintaining documentation; collaborate with marketing, content, and digital teams to ensure consistent brand execution and informed by audience insights and industry trends.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the development and execution of multi-phase brand initiatives, including campaign planning, content integration, and cross-platform activations.
  • Assist in maintaining and tracking detailed plans, timelines, and deliverables with key stakeholders, ensuring alignment to brand objectives and fan engagement goals.
  • Help monitor audience behavior, industry trends, and competitive activity to inform ESPN brand strategies and identify opportunities for innovation.
  • Contribute to the development of presentations, reports, and updates for leadership, clearly explaining complex information and insights to a variety of stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with internal partners across marketing, content, and digital teams to ensure brand initiatives are integrated consistently and effectively across ESPN platforms.
  • Support tracking and analysis of key performance indicators for brand campaigns and content, incorporating learnings into future planning and optimization.
  • Maintain key documents and repositories (e.g., presentations, trackers, reports) to ensure information is current, organized, and accessible to the broader team.
  • Provide informal guidance to new team members on processes and tools, modeling a proactive, solution-oriented, and collaborative approach to work.

Requirements

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and translate insights into actionable brand recommendations.
  • Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with a proactive and positive attitude and a desire to get things done.
  • Demonstrated capability to work both collaboratively within a team and independently with moderate guidance, as an early career, independent worker and problem-solver.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly to stakeholders at different levels.
  • Good organizational skills with experience maintaining trackers, presentations, and shared documents to support project execution.
  • Comfort with quantitative analysis and using metrics to evaluate performance of campaigns or content.
  • Basic proficiency with productivity tools such as Microsoft Office Suite (e.g., PowerPoint, Excel) or similar software.
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in marketing, brand strategy, communications, or business management, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred

  • Experience and familiarity with digital content platforms (e.g., YouTube, streaming, social media), including formats, policies, and key performance indicators.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills applied to content or campaign performance measurement.
  • Familiarity with presentation and spreadsheet tools such as Keynote and Excel.
  • Prior experience in the entertainment or sports media industry.
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ESPN is the leading multiplatform sports entertainment brand that features seven U.S. television networks, the leading sports app, direct-to-consumer ESPN+, leading social and digital platforms, ESPN.com, ESPN Audio, endeavors on every continent around the world, and more. ESPN is 80 percent owned by ABC, Inc. (an indirect subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company) and 20 percent by Hearst. Based in Bristol, Conn., ESPN has approximately 3,800 employees (4,600 worldwide).

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$74K/yr – $101K/yr

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Associate Manager Brand Strategy

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