Senior Principal, Sports Marketing Investments

Nike • Beaverton, OR

10d

About The Position

The Sports Marketing team helps shape and advance Nike's next generation of athlete, team, league, and sport ecosystem partnerships - identifying new ways to deepen relationships, unlock innovation, and create long-term value for Nike and our partners. We are looking for a team member to partner on the development of high-priority Sports Marketing partnership opportunities, working closely with Sports Marketing Leadership, Geographies, and cross-functional partners to build modern partnership models that extend beyond traditional sponsorship and turn bold ideas into action. This role serves as a trusted thought partner to leaders responsible for Nike's most important sports relationships and the new partnership opportunities that can strengthen them for the future.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience, and training.
• 9+ years of directly relevant work experience, e.g.: Sports Marketing, athlete or partner development, corporate/business-unit strategy, management consulting, corporate development, business development, or investment.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex strategic or partnership initiatives from opportunity definition through executive decision-making and execution support.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort with business cases, investment economics, modeling, and forecasting.

Nice To Haves

• MBA or equivalent advanced degree.
• Experience working in, or directly with, global, matrixed organizations.
• Familiarity with the sports ecosystem and consumer, retail, or brand-led businesses.
• Demonstrated success leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Experience developing and implementing partnership, investment, or strategic processes and frameworks.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and change leadership skills.
• Experience managing multiple opportunities, portfolios, or initiatives, and operating in a role that requires balancing diverse stakeholder needs and delivering tailored solutions.
• Strong storytelling ability through both written and verbal communication, as well as presentation-building and presenting skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Sports Marketing Investment Opportunities: Partner on the delivery of complex partnership and investment opportunities tied to Nike's most important Sports Marketing relationships and priorities. Define scope, structure analyses, partner across cross-functional teams, assess relationship and financial value, and synthesize recommendations for leadership.
• Build the Future of Sports Partnerships: Develop frameworks, insights, and opportunity scenarios that help Nike move beyond traditional sponsorship into equity partnerships, joint ventures, athlete ventures, and other emerging models. Identify opportunities to create deeper alignment, stronger retention, and more compounded long-term value with Nike's most important partners.
• Strengthen Nike's Sport Relationship Ecosystem: Evaluate opportunities through the lens of athlete and partner engagement, relationship value, strategic learning, activation efficiency, economic benefit, and alignment with Nike's priority sport ecosystems. Protect relationship dynamics while helping Nike identify where it can uniquely create and capture value.
• Drive Alignment and Execution: Partner with Sports Marketing, Finance, Legal, Corporate Development, and other cross-functional teams to move opportunities from concept through diligence, decision, and execution. Help define success metrics, create roadmaps, track progress, manage risk, and adjust course as needed to ensure impact and accountability.

Benefits

• We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior