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The Athletic

Operations

We are looking for a strategy and operations leader to apply their skills in corporate strategy, business operations, and media, supporting senior leadership and working across all functions to maximize the business impact of The Athletic's large and growing commercial organization.

Associate Commercial Strategy and Operations Director

• Editorial Operations Associate position
• Focus on supporting day-to-day integration of editorial and content operations businesses
• Cross-functional projects around sales/business development, content campaign planning, and content licensing/IP
• Collaborate with editorial and operations leadership teams, as well as a cross-functional group including the newsroom, sales, ad ops, commercial, data, marketing, and design
• Project manage communication, planning, and connective tissue between the newsroom and the rest of the business
• Partner with editorial, sales, and marketing teams to execute on new content experiences that drive subscriptions, engagement, and revenue
• Liaise with analytics teams to help with planning and implementation of content strategy and to monitor success metrics for content experiences
• Partner with newsroom leaders and commercial teams to own IP across various platforms and content types
• Communicate results to internal stakeholders.

Editorial Operations Associate (Remote)

Mobile Engineer

• Building beautiful and polished user experiences and architecting elegant, maintainable code
• Working with Design and Product teams to build UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered
• Investigating, debugging, and fixing user-reported production issues 
• Brainstorming new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams 
• Refactoring existing code where needed in order to improve quality of life for the other engineers
• Working within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements

Senior Android Engineer (Remote)

Data Analyst & BI

• The Senior Data Analyst will lead a variety of complex projects to support the growth team.
• The Senior Data Analyst will be responsible for monitoring our various channels for customer acquisition, overseeing our experiments with pricing and subscription packages, and developing frameworks and models to improve our growth strategies.
• The Senior Data Analyst will be a key partner to the growth team and help them develop and test ideas that would accelerate health and sustainable customer acquisition.
• The Senior Data Analyst will own/manage data model and data pipeline that enables event tracking for our checkout funnel.

Senior Data Analyst - Growth Product (Remote)

Software Engineer

• Work with Design and Product teams to build a web UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered.
• Architect and build the backend/api layer to optimize for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.
• Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality.
• Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members.
• Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams.
• Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements.

Software Engineer, Full Stack - Subscriber Experience (Remote)

Marketing (General)

• The Athletic is seeking a CRM Marketing Manager to join our team.
• In this role, you will be responsible for developing strategies and executing programs to convert, engage and retain subscribers throughout their lifecycle.
• The ideal candidate is a customer-centric, data driven marketer with an entrepreneurial spirit and successful history developing impactful CRM programs that drive the business forward through optimization and experimentation.
• Due to team distribution throughout the US and UK, candidates based in the East Coast are highly preferred.
• Responsibilities
• Ideate and lead the execution of programs that build relationships with free users, drive subscription starts and conversions, engage subscribers and win back churned users across email, newsletters, and in-app channels.
• Drive continuous improvement of business and team channel-specific KPIs, maintaining a clear project process plan and documenting best practices.
• Identify new opportunities for automation and personalization through journey building, testing roadmaps, developing benchmarks, and creating and sharing regular performance reports and results in partnership with Analytics.
• Communicate proactively and clearly with business leaders and stakeholders about strategy, execution, and performance tracking to plan.
• Work cross-functionally with the product marketing team on a range of projects from launching new features to developing segments and personas that enable CRM to personalize the user journey.
• Assist in managing overall email list health and protecting domain reputation/deliverability across all email

CRM Marketing Manager (Remote)

Sales & Business Development

• The Sales Planner will act in partnership with our Advertising Sales & Strategy teams to lead and support thoughtful and compelling programs that deliver successful outcomes for our Advertisers.
• The Sales Planner will be knowledgeable of digital and audio advertising platforms, tools, and products to create compelling media offerings.
• The Sales Planner will work with The Athletic clients externally and be a partner to sales and other operational teams internally.
• The Sales Planner will support development of RFP (Requests for Proposal) process utilizing the full scope of The Athletic's ad products that strategically address the advertiser's needs and campaign objectives for digital and audio business lines.
• The Sales Planner will build and revise media plans, check avails, reserve fixed placements and update associated fixed placement calendars, and negotiate Terms & Conditions; Enter final plans into online proposal systems.
• The Sales Planner will manage the digital process workflow from RFP to IO and liaise with key approval stakeholders in AdOps, Revenue Analytics, Legal, Ad Product, Research and Strategy.
• The Sales Planner will attend all Product trainings and develop a deep understanding of the full suite of The Athletic's products across all platforms.
• The Sales Planner will assist with campaign kick off management.
• The Sales Planner will coordinate handoff of digital campaigns to AdOps to ensure pre and post sales continuity.
• The Sales Planner will field

Sales Planner (Remote)

Data Engineer

• Work with data engineers to build and deploy tools and data infrastructure that power our platform
• Lead a team of 3 data engineers
• Be a part of a team of generalists interested in continuously learning new areas
• Be a part of a global team of benefits-oriented employees
• Have experience with Kafka, Kubernetes, Redshift and Spark

Manager, Data Engineering (Remote)

Product Manager

• Work with a team of engineers, designers, marketers, and analysts to execute seamlessly on behalf of the business and our users.
• Lead efforts in support of our rapidly scaling Commercial business.
• Understand technical considerations and work collaboratively with engineering to balance level of effort and quality + scalability.
• Deeply understand our Commercial strategy and our product.
• Partner with colleagues within the Commercial org to inform what product innovations we bring to market, and how we solve inbound requests.
• Collaborate directly with external partners (e.g., a client's marketing and technical teams) to understand their needs and work towards mutually-beneficial solutions.
• Lead projects across multiple tech pods including Design, Engineering, Marketing, Editorial, and other stakeholders.
• Foster a highly collaborative cross-functional environment focused on shared metrics and objectives.
• Understand the competitive environment and stay on top of great user experiences.

Product Manager, Commercial (Remote)

• Work with Design and Product teams to build a web UI that is beautiful, performant, and well-engineered.

• Architect and build the backend/api layer to optimize for performance, growth, scalability, ease of future development, and code quality.

• Write unit and functional tests to ensure maximum code and app quality.

• Investigate, debug, and fix user-reported production issues.

• Provide mentorship and guidance to other team members.

• Brainstorm new product ideas and improvements alongside the design and product teams.

• Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements.

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