Senior Manager, Paid Social- Sportsbook (Remote US)

New York, USA (Remote)

$120K/yr – $150K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the paid social engine for Fanatics Sportsbook, turning planning, budgeting, optimization, and reporting into measurable growth across Meta, TikTok, Snap, X, Reddit, and emerging platforms.

  • Plan and optimize campaigns to hit sportsbook goals, promotions, and customer lifecycle milestones.
  • Coordinate cross-functional briefs, creative testing, and performance feedback with Brand and Creative teams.
  • Translate data into actionable budgets, learnings, and executive-ready readouts for ongoing optimization.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own day-to-day planning, buying, pacing, optimization, and reporting of paid social campaigns for Fanatics Sportsbook.
  • Develop paid social media plans that align with sportsbook goals, state priorities, sports calendar moments, promotions, partnerships, and customer lifecycle initiatives.
  • Manage budgets, bids, audiences, creative rotations, placements, and campaign structures across Meta, TikTok, Snap, X, Reddit, and emerging social platforms.
  • Optimize campaigns against OSB-specific goals including customer acquisition, first deposit, active customer growth, revenue, CAC, CPA, payback, and lifetime value.
  • Partner with Creative and Brand teams to develop briefs, refresh pipelines, test plans, and performance feedback loops for sportsbook social creative.
  • Translate weekly and monthly performance data into actionable insights, budget recommendations, creative learnings, and executive-ready readouts.
  • Manage agency workflows and platform partner relationships to ensure accurate builds, timely optimizations, and clear accountability for performance outcomes.
  • Lead testing across creative concepts, hooks, audiences, bidding, app events, landing pages, placements, influencer amplification, and platform betas.
  • Maintain rigorous QA across creative assets, ad copy, offer messaging, tracking parameters, destination URLs, state eligibility, responsible gaming requirements, and compliance approvals.
  • Mentor and provide direction to the Social Media Associate Buyer on campaign trafficking, reporting, pacing, QA, and optimization tasks.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in paid social media buying, digital media planning, performance marketing, or a related role.
  • Strong hands-on experience with Meta Ads Manager, TikTok Ads Manager, Snap Ads, X Ads, Reddit Ads, MMPs, analytics tools, and paid social reporting dashboards.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage performance budgets against CAC, CPA, ROAS, revenue, payback, and LTV goals.
  • Experience developing creative testing roadmaps and translating performance data into creative and media optimization decisions.
  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to connect channel-level results to broader business outcomes.
  • Experience working with agencies, platform partners, creative teams, analytics teams, and compliance stakeholders.
  • Strong presentation skills across internal and external stakeholders.
  • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices in New York City and Denver as well as other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team-building activities.

Preferred

  • Experience in sports betting, gaming, daily fantasy, subscription, marketplace, entertainment, or other high-velocity consumer acquisition environments preferred.

Benefits

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Fanatics

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Fanatics is a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally.

Founded in 2002
New York, New York, USA
14K employees (1,648 in marketing)
50% recommend to a friend
55% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
167.9K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
43.8%
Direct
43.9%
Referral
10.1%
Social
1.8%
Paid
0.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~13.5K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
880 (6% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
3.5 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
3

Funding

Total Funding
$4.9B
Last Raise
$700M
Private Equity, 3 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Private Equity • $700M
  • Mar 2022
    Private Equity • $1.5B
  • Jan 2022
    Series Unknown • $10M

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