Responsibilities

• Global Athlete Strategy Leadership: Develop and execute the global women’s basketball athlete and partner strategy aligned with brand priorities, category objectives, and long-term growth plans.
• Talent Identification and Pipeline Development: Build and maintain a strong pipeline of future athlete and partner opportunities through scouting, relationship development, and collaboration with grassroots and basketball ecosystem stakeholders.
• Athlete Signing and Retention: Lead athlete contract negotiations, signings, and retention efforts while managing relationships with agents, managers, schools, and key decision makers.
• Relationship Management and Athlete Experience: Establish and maintain trusted relationships with athletes and their support teams while ensuring exceptional service and strong brand alignment.
• Athlete Insight Integration: Serve as the voice of athletes internally by sharing insights that inform product creation, testing, storytelling, marketing initiatives, and category strategy.
• Product and Merchandising Management: Support athlete and partner programs through product forecasting, ordering, distribution planning, and promotional merchandise execution.
• Activation and Brand Execution: Lead athlete appearances, events, retail activations, and key brand moments to maximize impact and ensure flawless execution.
• Operational Program Management: Oversee budgeting, forecasting, invoicing, reporting, order management, and program administration to ensure operational excellence.
• Product Seeding and Consumer Influence: Manage on-court and off-court product seeding strategies that align with seasonal priorities and influence consumer demand.
• Travel and Logistics Coordination: Coordinate athlete travel, accommodations, event participation, and expense management to support global initiatives and activations.

Requirements

• Four-year college or university degree in Marketing, Business, Sports Management, or a related field.
• Minimum 4 to 6 years of experience in sports marketing, athlete management, brand marketing, or a related discipline.
• Strong knowledge of the basketball industry with a deep understanding of the women’s basketball landscape.
• Proven ability to build, develop, and maintain relationships with athletes, agents, managers, and key stakeholders.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and influencing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment and make decisions in fast-paced environments.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines across cross-functional teams.
• Strong presentation and storytelling skills with the ability to communicate effectively across all organizational levels.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Ability to travel extensively, with up to 40% travel required during peak business periods.

Preferred

• Direct experience working within basketball, women’s sports, athlete representation, or sports agency environments.
• Experience developing and executing global athlete strategies or brand partnership programs.
• Strong understanding of grassroots, collegiate, and professional basketball ecosystems.
• Experience supporting athlete marketing campaigns, product launches, or consumer engagement initiatives.
• Established network within the basketball community and women’s sports industry.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage including HSA with employer funding or FSA options, dental, vision, and prescription plans.
• Adoption, surrogate, and fertility support programs.
• Short and long term disability coverage.
• Basic life and AD and D insurance with supplemental employee paid options.
• 401(k) plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match.
• Education assistance for eligible full-time employees.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave and generous leave policies.
• Flexible time off accrued at 0.4388 hours per day, increasing with tenure.
• Twelve paid holidays plus milestone Service Time Off.
• Employee product discounts and access to wellness programs.