Manager, Sports Content Marketing & Partnerships

New York City, NY (On-site)

$80K/yr – $110K/yrManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end sports marketing strategy and partner activation, leading cross-functional campaigns across CRM, app marketing, social, and talent partnerships while ensuring contractual compliance and measurable impact.

  • Develop integrated strategies for high-profile sports initiatives and partnerships
  • Lead cross-functional planning and stakeholder alignment for campaigns

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop integrated marketing strategies for key sports programming initiatives, tentpole events, channel launches, original content, and partnership opportunities.
  • Partner closely with Sports Programming leadership to identify marketing opportunities that drive listening, engagement, subscriber value, and audience growth.
  • Lead partner and talent marketing relationships across assigned sports properties, serving as the primary point of contact for leagues, teams, media partners, talent representatives, agencies, and other key stakeholders.
  • Lead cross-functional planning across CRM, App Marketing, Social, Performance Marketing, Creative, PR, Events, Brand, Sales, and Product teams to ensure successful campaign execution.
  • Create presentations, strategic recommendations, and marketing narratives that clearly communicate objectives, opportunities, results, and business impact.
  • Own creative strategy and development from brief through execution, including campaign positioning, messaging frameworks, creative feedback, and go-to-market planning for major sports initiatives.
  • Independently determine campaign approaches, sequencing, and stakeholder tradeoffs for complex assignments, escalating only when business risk or contractual exposure requires leadership input.
  • Identify and champion innovative marketing opportunities that elevate SiriusXM's sports brands, deepen fan engagement, and create value for partners and stakeholders.
  • Support marketing strategy and partnership activation efforts across current sports properties and emerging strategic partnerships.
  • Analyze campaign, audience, and engagement performance to identify insights, inform future strategy, and communicate recommendations to leadership.

Requirements

  • Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 4 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.
  • Experience in partnerships, partner management or content/digital marketing.
  • Experience managing high-profile partnerships, talent relationships, sponsorships, or sports properties.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to craft compelling narratives and present recommendations to executive audiences.
  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business objectives into actionable marketing plans.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and drive alignment among multiple stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently resolve complex, ambiguous issues and recommend practical tradeoffs with limited supervision.
  • Experience developing presentations, marketing strategies, business cases, and performance recaps.
  • Experience reviewing partnership agreements, sponsorship contracts, talent agreements, or media rights deals with a strong understanding of marketing rights and obligations.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
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SiriusXM and its brands (Pandora, SiriusXM Media, AdsWizz, Simplecast, and SiriusXM Connect) are leading a new era of audio entertainment and services by delivering the most compelling subscription and ad-supported audio entertainment experience for listeners -- in the car, at home, and anywhere on the go with connected devices. Our vision is to shape the future of audio, where everyone can be effortlessly connected to the voices, stories and music they love wherever they are.This is the place where a diverse group of emerging talent and legends alike come to share authentic and purposeful songs, stories, sounds and insights through some of the best programming and technology in the world. Our critically-acclaimed, industry-leading audio entertainment encompasses music, sports, comedy, news, talk, live events, and podcasting. No matter their individual role, each of our employees plays a vital part in bringing SiriusXM’s vision to life every day.

Founded in 1990
New York, New York, USA
6.3K employees (1,685 in marketing)
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78.8%
Referral
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Social
0.5%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~6.3K

Marketing Team

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954 (15% of company)
Median Tenure
14.8 years
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    Post IPO Debt • $1.3B
  • Aug 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $2B
  • Jul 2025
    Post IPO Equity • $459M

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