Senior Marketing Manager - Olympic And Team Usa Partnership
This is a rare opportunity to sit at the center of one of the most recognizable partnerships in sports. As a Senior Marketing Manager - Olympic and Team USA Partnership, you'll serve as Guild's lead relationship owner across USOPP and the Olympic ecosystem, managing executive-level stakeholders, shaping LA28 strategy, and driving sponsorship activations that connect Guild's mission to a global audience.
As a Senior Marketing Manager you will own:
Relationship Management (USOPP & Olympic Ecosystem)
- Serve as Guild's primary point of contact for USOPP and Olympic ecosystem stakeholders
- Own day-to-day partnership management and long-term strategic relationship development
- Drive executive-level engagement with key stakeholders across Team USA and LA28
- Ensure alignment across legal, brand, communications, events, and executive teams
- Identify and unlock incremental value within the Olympic ecosystem (athletes, governing bodies, sponsors, affiliates)
Marketing Activation
- Lead end-to-end sponsorship activation strategy across digital, social, storytelling, events, and executive engagement
- Develop and execute flame-to-flame activation plans leading into LA28
- Translate sponsorship rights into measurable commercial impact
- Partner closely with Brand, Comms, Field Marketing to deliver high-quality activations
- Ensure cohesive narrative and visibility across key tentpole moments (e.g., Milan, LA28 milestones, athlete initiatives)
LA28 Strategy & Agency Management
- Define Guild's long-term LA28 strategy, including positioning, investment pacing, and activation roadmap
- Clarify role ownership and cross-functional governance for Olympic efforts internally
- Lead agency evaluation and sourcing (as needed) to support activation scale
- Develop a multi-year strategic plan that aligns Olympic investments with Guild's enterprise growth objectives
Qualifications:
- 6-10 years of experience in sports marketing, brand partnerships, or sponsorship strategy
- Experience working within or alongside the Olympic ecosystem strongly preferred
- Demonstrated experience managing complex, high-visibility partnerships with multiple stakeholders
- Proven ability to design and execute integrated marketing activations tied to sponsorship rights
- Executive presence and comfort engaging C-suite leaders and external partners
- Strong commercial instinct - able to translate sponsorship into tangible business value
- Experience navigating matrixed organizations and leading cross-functional alignment
- Agency management experience strongly preferred
Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune's Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC's Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.'s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company's World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab's Best for the World (2019), among many others.
Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Vacation policy to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth