Sr. Lead, Marketing + Activations Americas (Team Sports)

Baltimore, MD (Hybrid)

$137K/yr – $172K/yrSenior Level

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive integrated sports marketing strategies across football, basketball, and baseball to activate athletes and engage fans.

  • Must-have: 3–5+ years in brand marketing or sports marketing
  • Standout: Translate cultural and sport insights into actionable campaigns and present to senior leadership

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build and execute integrated marketing strategies grounded in a strong understanding of football, basketball, and baseball culture. Translate creative concepts into activation plans across social, experiential, and traditional channels that resonate authentically with athletes and fans.
  • Partner with internal teams (creative, media, product, sports marketing, digital) and external agencies to bring category-specific campaigns to life. Ensure alignment on messaging, timing, and execution across Football, Basketball, and Baseball initiatives.
  • Develop social-first strategies that tap into sport-specific trends, athlete moments, seasonal storylines, and platform best practices to drive high engagement within each sport community.
  • Confidently present strategies, creative directions, insights, and performance readouts to senior leadership, Category partners, Sports Marketing, and Cross-Functional teams. Influence decisions by bringing forward cultural context and sport-specific consumer insights.
  • Build activation strategies that leverage key athletes across football, basketball, and baseball. Partner closely with Sports Marketing to integrate athletes into campaigns, events, social storytelling, and product launches in a way that feels authentic and drives brand energy.
  • Foster creativity across the team by staying connected to sport culture—on-field trends, grassroots moments, athlete lifestyle shifts, and fan behavior. Bring fresh thinking and a collaborative mindset to elevate the brand in each priority sport.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree with typically 10 years of relevant experience OR Master's degree with typically 8 years of relevant experience OR Typically 14 years of relevant experience without degree
  • 3–5+ years of experience in brand marketing, sports marketing, social strategy, or integrated marketing (or related).
  • Strong passion for football, basketball, and baseball, with an understanding of the culture, language, consumer mindset, and competitive landscape within each sport.
  • Experience developing and executing multi-channel campaigns, ideally within or adjacent to the sports industry.
  • Demonstrated ability to work with or around athletes, teams, leagues, or grassroots programs.
  • Ability to translate cultural and sport-specific insights into actionable marketing strategies.
  • Strong presentation and storytelling skills; able to influence partners at all levels.
  • Comfortable managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
  • Experience collaborating with creative, digital, media, or agency partners.
  • Strong understanding of current and emerging social platforms, especially within sports communities.
  • Detail-oriented with strong project management and cross-functional communication skills.

Preferred

Benefits

  • Paid "UA Give Back" Volunteer Days: Work alongside your team to support initiatives in your local community
  • Under Armour Merchandise Discounts
  • Competitive 401(k) plan matching
  • Maternity and Parental Leave for eligible and FMLA-eligible teammates
  • Health & fitness benefits, discounts and resources- We offer teammates across the country programs to promote physical activity and overall well-being
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Under Armour is obsessed with being better, stronger, and more focused than anyone else out there. Our mission: to make athletes better. Our vision: to inspire you with performance solutions you never knew you needed and can’t imagine living without. Our values define and unite us, the beliefs that are the red thread that connect everyone at Under Armour. Our values are rallying cries, reminding us why we’re here, and fueling everything we do. LOVE ATHLETES We believe in waking up every morning to make athletes legendary. From the best of the best to the ones just getting started, we put the athlete at the center of everything we do. We create fearlessly with the courage and conviction to defy convention. We innovate by taking bold and smart risks. We show up big where athletes train, compete, and recover. CELEBRATE THE WINS We believe our victories, big and small, bring us together as a team. We celebrate our accomplishments, giving credit where it's due. We take time to have fun. We channel past successes to inspire our next win. STAND FOR EQUALITY We believe sport is the great unifier. We don't sit on the sidelines; we speak up for fairness and equity. We treat each other with respect. We apply different perspectives in our work. We come together as a force for good to serve the communities we represent. ACT SUSTAINABLY We believe our work is not just what we do but how we do it. We work ethically and efficiently to perfect performance while reusing the Earth's resources. We seek new information to develop lasting solutions. We protect our planet for all who now play, and all who will play, on our home field. FIGHT ON TOGETHER We believe strength is built through tackling adversity. We act with an enterprise mindset in the best interest of the Brand. We help each other overcome obstacles. We act with integrity, have honest conversations and grow over mistakes. We approach challenges with positive intent and never quit.

Founded in 1996
Baltimore, Maryland, US
12K employees (1,203 in marketing)
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Traffic Signals

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7.9M
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$778.3K
Traffic Source Mix
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27.2%
Direct
56.8%
Referral
7.7%
Social
3.9%
Paid
4.3%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~12.7K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
842 (7% of company)
Median Career Experience
15 years
Median Tenure
8.4 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$567.4M
Last Raise
$67.4M
Post IPO Secondary, 2 months ago

Funding History

  • Jan 2026
    Post IPO Secondary • $67.4M
  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $400M
  • May 2023
    Post IPO Secondary • $100M

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