Senior Marketing Manager - Olympic and Team USA Partnership

Guild • Denver, CO

25d • $125,000 - $150,000

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 6-10 years of experience in sports marketing, brand partnerships, or sponsorship strategy
• 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

Nice To Haves

• Experience working within or alongside the Olympic ecosystem strongly preferred
• Agency management experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• 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

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

What This Job Offers

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