Sports Partnership Manager (Copy)

USA (Remote)

Salary Not AvailableMid Level5+ years expContract

Posted 3 months ago

Top 1% of applicants do these two things.

The other 99% submit and hope. You're about to do something different.

Job Summary

Bluesky Partnerships role drives creator and brand collaborations around live events to grow reach and engagement.

  • Must-have: 5+ years in content partnerships or business development with deep social-ecosystem knowledge
  • Standout: Campaigns that moved awareness, sentiment, or growth and autonomous in fast-moving spaces

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders in the entertainment-social space.
  • Grow our communities through programmatic activations during live events.
  • Own planning and execution for how Bluesky engages with major sporting events, across IRL and digital campaigns.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally. Work with product, marketing, and comms teams to translate partner insights into actionable recommendations. Advocate for community needs internally.
  • Track and report on performance. Define success metrics for partnerships, track your inputs and outputs, and report clearly on what's working. Your data will inform our priorities and resource allocation.
  • Leverage data to develop an engagement strategy that identifies opportunities to strengthen how we serve our community of creators

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in content partnerships, creator/talent management, or business development roles.
  • Have deep knowledge of the social content ecosystem. You have existing relationships and know how to build new ones quickly.
  • Have worked in high-velocity startup environments where you ship fast and iterate often.
  • Are fluent in social — you don’t just “manage partnerships,” you get how the internet works
  • Have a track record of leading campaigns that moved the needle on awareness, sentiment, and/or growth
  • Can operate autonomously, move fast, and deliver results in ambiguous or rapidly evolving spaces

Preferred

  • Are already familiar with Bluesky, AT Protocol, or the decentralized social landscape
  • You have experience with the commercial aspects of the content industry
  • You’ve worked directly in entertainment media, at a rightsholders, or at an agency
  • Can show us a portfolio of partnerships campaigns you’ve previously worked on
Bluesky logo

Bluesky

3.6 Glassdoor

BlueSky is an award-winning, ambitious and independent cloud, digital and AI technology agency. We partner with leading technologies including Salesforce, Amazon Web Services, Alteryx, Tableau, Snowflake and DataBricks. We’ve got the tools to help you build a business for the future. Our services include the full set of digital, cloud and AI disciplines required to drive your digital transformation.The sky’s the limit when you think without limits. At BlueSky, we thrive on agility and a culture of curiosity. It’s a mindset that pushes us to deliver cutting-edge technology solutions that drive efficiency, effectiveness & growth for our clients. We have vast experience in delivering emerging technology using start-up thinking and agile delivery methodologies applying flexible, iterative solutions that achieve business value.We guide our clients through every phase of digital and AI transformation from strategy definition and roadmap design to implementation and post go-live managed services. We believe emerging technology offers the opportunity to leap forwards towards growth and innovation. We ensure innovation leads to actionable outcomes and measurable returns.

Founded in 2017
Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZAF
231 employees (18 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
78% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
16.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
28.8%
Direct
55.7%
Referral
6.6%
Social
7.1%
Paid
1.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~234

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
8 (3% of company)