Senior Strategist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Acquire a comprehensive understanding of all of The Athletic’s properties and media offerings.

• Design advertising product packages ahead of specific sports seasons and events, including pricing, messaging, and promotional strategies.

• Act as the main contact for RFPs and create compelling proposals that showcase tailored digital, social, and audio sponsorship solutions.

• Collaborate with Sales to finalize agreements.

• Facilitate brainstorming sessions, coordinate information from various teams, manage timelines, and meet deadlines.

• Ideate, collaborate, and oversee project offerings across pertinent departments to develop integrated programs for clients.

• Produce pitch materials, including concept descriptions, screenshots, mock-ups, research, and customized templates.

• Leverage research and data to effectively articulate and support strategies and creative concepts.

• Participate in sales calls to present advertising ideas when required.

• Create innovative, cross-platform marketing initiatives for advertisers in collaboration with Sales, Planning, Program Management, Account Management, Editorial, and Creative teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in cross-platform Advertising (ad sales marketing, creative strategy, integrated marketing).

• In-depth knowledge of the current social, branded content, digital, mobile, and audio environments.

• Proven experience working on RFPs within a media setting.

• Strong capability to transform information into actionable insights.

• Ability to distill research into relevant implications for the industry and clients.

• Eagerness to engage in collaborative sales and marketing processes, including strategic interactions within an advertising sales context.

• Experience utilizing proprietary tools, third-party resources, and/or desk research to discover meaningful insights, human truths, and whitespace opportunities.

• Background in writing creative briefs and briefing creative teams.

• Experience in responding to client RFPs and providing media recommendations.

• Proven track record in developing polished, inspiring, client-ready visual proposals.

• Previous experience in strategy or integrated marketing at a media company is essential.

🏝️ Benefits

• Variable pay, such as an annual bonus and restricted stock, may be available for U.S. roles depending on the position.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.

• Flexible Spending Accounts (F.S.A.s).

• Company-matching 401(k) plan.

• Paid vacation.

• Paid sick days.

• Paid parental leave.

• Tuition reimbursement.

• Professional development programs.

• Benefits information will be provided during the interview process for roles outside of the U.S.