Marketing Program Manager - Sports Sponsorship

Stripe

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About The Position

Stripe is seeking a Marketing Program Manager to lead a multi-prong sports sponsorship program. This role involves end-to-end program management, including planning, execution, testing, and optimization of sponsorships across multiple sports teams and dozens of sporting events. This is an inaugural program with a multi-year commitment, offering the opportunity to shape it from the ground up into a world-class execution engine. The role requires a blend of strategic planning and hands-on execution, with the ability to adapt focus as needed. The program sits at the intersection of brand, marketing, communications, and B2B hospitality/pipeline building for an executive-facing audience.

Requirements

• 7-10+ years of project management experience, ideally in brand, marketing, sports, or events
• Strong experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders at the executive and working team level and competing priorities
• Excellent organizational, communication, and follow-through skills
• Experience creating playbooks, toolkits, and operational documentation for scaled program maturity

Nice To Haves

• Experience with large-scale, high-profile, executive-facing brand hospitality events
• Experience managing projects in Asana (or other project planning software)
• Experience with Salesforce (e.g. for managing audience building and reporting)
• Experience partnering with agencies, vendors and third parties to bring consistency and standards
• Experience in the Tech industry; financial services, payments, or B2B software a plus
• AI project management workflow automation
• East coast preferred, to manage timezones across Pacific and European teams

Responsibilities

• Lead global end-to-end program management for a multi-year sports sponsorship program across multiple sports teams / events / internal Stripe teams and workstreams
• Build and maintain repeatable playbooks, best practices documentation, and toolkits to efficiently scale our event execution engine
• Coordinate and manage budget plans in partnership with the accountable leads to ensure spend is on-track
• Own program communications in digestible and exec-ready format, including operationalizing reporting across functions into unified views
• Drive ongoing improvements via process innovation, automation, and the adoption of AI-powered tools to increase productivity and transform workflows

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed