Partnership Marketing Manager, Sports

About This Role

This role is for a Partnership Marketing Manager focusing on Sports, responsible for activating and executing Polymarket's high-profile sports partnerships. The successful candidate will create and deploy assets and activations for millions of viewers, appearing on TV broadcasts, social media, and in sports venues globally. It is a creative and operational position requiring design skills and strategic partnership instincts.

Responsibilities

• Execute day-to-day activation of Polymarket's sports partnerships, managing deliverables, timelines, and partner relationships across leagues and properties
• Design and produce creative assets for partnership activations, including in-stadium, broadcast, social, and digital, adhering to partner brand guidelines and Polymarket's design system
• Develop and champion creative concepts that elevate partnerships into culturally resonant, on-brand moments that drive tangible results
• Build and own the distribution strategy to reach target audiences across owned, earned, and paid channels
• Leverage AI tooling for design ideation and production efficiency, staying current with technological advancements
• Track activation performance against clear KPIs and provide data-informed recommendations to optimize future executions
• Collaborate with internal teams to ensure sports partnership moments align with broader brand campaigns and product priorities

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of sports, consuming games and headlines constantly across various leagues and sports
• Proficiency in Figma, balancing ambiguity with design systems and partner constraints to deliver world-class creative
• An eye for conversion, understanding the difference between aesthetically pleasing content and content that drives results
• Adept at using AI tooling for productivity and design ideation
• Organized and capable of functioning in a fast-paced environment
• Able to communicate effectively and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines

Nice to have:

• Prior experience at a sports league, team, media property, or agency with a major sports portfolio
• Existing relationships within the sports partnership or media ecosystem
• Experience producing assets for broadcast or live event environments
• Familiarity with prediction markets, crypto, or fintech brands

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Full health, vision, and dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories

About the Company

Polymarket is a prediction market platform that allows individuals to trade on outcomes of real-world events across various categories. It functions as a peer-to-peer marketplace, aggregating diverse opinions into market-based probabilities. The company is experiencing rapid growth in trading volume and adoption as an alternative news source, aiming to become a significant source of truth in global media.