The Athletic delivers powerful stories and smart analysis that bring sports fans closer to the heart of the game. From breaking news and live commentary, to deeply-reported long reads and exclusive interviews, subscribers rely on The Athletic for every sports story that matters. Acquired by The New York Times in 2022. Learn more about career opportunities at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/careers/

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Full-stack Engineer

• You will be part of the Subscription team in the broader Engineering department. Your team will be focused on growing our subscriber base and moving metrics that power our subscription business. The team will be responsible for a significant part of the product, including payments infrastructure, subscription growth funnels, converting visitors to free users, as well as earlier-stage products such as referrals. As a full-stack engineer, you’ll get to work on every part of the stack: web, backend, API, database, analytics.
• 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.
• Work with the team to influence technology direction.
• Ideate and suggest product improvements and features through a symbiotic relationship with Product team.
• Work within a highly cross-functional team, iterating on process and making your own suggestions for improvements.

Software Engineer, Full Stack - Subscriptions (Remote)

Content Writer

• This is a senior role providing comprehensive editorial oversight of our National Basketball Association desk, using data analytics to optimize performance, and partner with stakeholders across the editorial organization and business teams on a range of initiatives.
• Manage a staff of reporters with an emphasis on the delivery of news and distinct team analysis.
• Provide a big-picture, conceptual vision for the vertical, including long-term direction; generating and planning story ideas; editorial platforms; expansion opportunities.
• Establish process and priorities to balance content assignments ranging from short-form and breaking news to daily coverage to long-form projects.
• Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products.

Senior Managing Editor, NBA (Remote)

• This is a senior role providing comprehensive editorial oversight of our Major League Baseball desk, using data analytics to optimize performance, and partner with stakeholders across the editorial organization and business teams on a range of initiatives.
• Manage a staff of reporters with an emphasis on the delivery of news and distinct team analysis.
• Provide a big-picture, conceptual vision for the vertical, including long-term direction; generating and planning story ideas; editorial platforms; expansion opportunities.
• Establish process and priorities to balance content assignments ranging from short-form and breaking news to daily coverage to long-form projects.
• Work to bring a distinctive, compelling, and authentic voice to all digital media products.
• Maintain an understanding and proficiency of subscription and engagement metrics.
• Maintain proficiency and knowledge of SEO best practices.
• Develop comprehensive multimedia coverage and contacts that include text and audio.
• Coordinate staffing assignments, editorial resources and process.
• Maintain an updated and accurate forward-looking editorial budget.
• Collaborate with staff on story ideas, and with the design team on best execution for stories with a clear visual element.
• Oversee the vertical’s financial budget, including projecting month-to-month expenditures and managing travel.
• Edit and publish stories via WordPress as well as the news and live file tools.

Senior Managing Editor, MLB (Remote)

Project & Program Management

• Manage programs from start to finish, serving as the primary point of contact between the internal teams and client/agency teams to ensure all deliverables are on message, on track and within scope.
• Develop strong client relationships, through effectively communicating complex ideas and proposals, leading client meetings, crafting client correspondence, driving campaign production and evaluating program success.
• Determine program components and scope, and assign responsibilities to relevant teams.
• Internally advocate for the client to ensure obligations are met.
• Build and maintain project delivery trackers and create proof of delivery documents/recaps.
• Partner with Revenue Operations to manage budgets on each program to ensure healthy margins.
• Identify potential risks to the business/programs and take preemptive actions to mitigate.
• Provide strategic and consultative advice to clients for all aspects of each campaign.
• Help build and execute on strategies that communicate and achieve client objectives and distill client goals and feedback to help effectively define campaign success.
• Contribute proactively to the analysis and optimization of workflow, platforms and vendor relationships to drive efficiency and scale.
• Serve as the final check/gatekeeper for all deliverables.

Program Manager, Advertising Marketing (Remote)

• Develop new features based on specifications, ensuring to always optimize for scalability and performance.
• Contribute to and engage in our scrum process through sprint planning, review, retrospectives and daily standups.
• Understand the technical requirements of new requests and work with other engineers to ensure the end result matches expectations of building a world class product.
• Fix live bugs and triage the issue with company peers so the root cause can be identified.
• Validate the quality of your work through manual and automated testing.

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Sales

• 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.
• This is a remote-based position in the United States or Canada.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Adhere to process controls and ensure all approvals are accurately secured.
• Maintain proper documentation of all IOs, T&Cs and Campaign activities.
• Attend all Product trainings and develop a deep understanding of the full suite of The Athletic’s products across all platforms.
• Assist with campaign kick off management.
• Coordinate handoff of digital campaigns to AdOps to ensure pre and post sales continuity.
• Field customer complaints and work with the appropriate department to resolve them.
• Respond to servicing and information requests from team members and clients: work with various internal teams to gather information for customers and fulfill requests.
• Provide excellent customer service to both internal and external clients.
• Communicate detailed and specific account information to Sales and Operations management as needed.
• When other team members are out of office or low on bandwidth, Planner is responsible for coverage and resourcing assistance to support larger department needs.
• Planner is expected to surf the TA site regularly and frequently to ensure our Client’s ads are delivering as expected.

Sales Planner, Advertising Marketing (Remote)

Marketing

• The Athletic seeks a highly proactive, creative strategic mind to join our commercial team. You will identify insights, inspire ideas, and author proposals that help drive revenue for key advertisers. Strategy is a team sport, and you will be an expert collaborator responsible for developing innovative, cross-platform integrated marketing programs for advertisers in partnership with Sales, Planning, Program Management, Audio, Editorial, Social, Product, Marketing, Business Development and Creative teams to brainstorm and develop compelling solutions for our ad partners that drive company revenue across all sports verticals. Success within The Athletic’s Advertising Marketing strategy team requires strategic thinking, a passion for media, an editorial mindset, and a high standard for visual presentations, all brought to life through a working understanding of the advertising landscape and an ability to translate market trends into advertising and custom content programs.

Strategist, Advertising Marketing (Remote)

• The Athletic is looking for an energetic, motivated reporter to cover the Philadelphia Eagles, who is interested in telling unique and differentiating stories to an audience that appreciates quality above all else, as well as keeping that audience informed of all the news on the beat. This role can be remote for candidates in the US or Canada.
• Excellent news sense, along with strong sources to break or advance the news.
• A sharp, analytical mind able to analyze a situation and add perspective.
• Attention to detail; must be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
• Ability to tell rich, ambitious, features through deep reporting and access that takes readers beyond the superficial storylines.
• Ability to work on a number of projects at the same time, balancing long-term projects with the need to deliver stories on a regular basis.
• Ability to write quick news stories and provide analysis for a variety of platforms, including live journalism.
• Creative and innovative approach to story ideation and formats.
• Unique and strong voice that can stand out from competitors.
• Must have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and share information.
• Desire to connect with the audience by interacting with our community section and also holding live rooms, as appropriate.
• Interest in internal metrics that can help educate what subscribers desire.
• Minimum 4+ years of relevant experience at a media company.
• Thorough knowledge of the National Football League.
• Thorough knowledge of the journalistic process.
• Interest in other journalistic platforms, including podcasting, a plus.
• This position is based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Staff Writer, Philadelphia Eagles (Remote)

Performance Marketing

• The Campaign Manager coordinates the creative, trafficking, reporting, and billing needs between The Athletic and clients.
• Producing premium advertising products using pre-designed templates in Google Ad Manager.
• Partnering with sales and planning teams to lead the post-sale process, ensuring the accurate delivery of deals to multiple advertisers.
• Leading daily production responsibilities, including leading kick-off calls with advertising clients.
• Building ad products using HTML and CSS.
• Monitoring campaign pacing, addressing optimization needs, and investigating discrepancies.
• Providing campaign screenshots, in-campaign reporting, and final reporting within specified timeframes.
• Collaborating with sales on campaign management strategy.
• Addressing billing issues and disputes.
• Running periodic campaign status update meetings.
• Contributing to departmental goals and projects.

Campaign Manager, Ad Operations (Remote)

Product Manager

• Our subscription business has grown rapidly over the past few years, driven by our investment in high-quality content and an enthusiastic user base.
• We are looking for a product manager to help us take the business to the next level, unlocking new engagement levers and driving significant improvements to existing ones like push and email.
• With a primary goal of driving more sessions to our core product, you will help us focus our resources on the most important initiatives and foster a culture of experimentation and iteration.
• You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including editorial, design, engineering, analytics, and marketing, to define and implement innovative engagement mechanisms that cater to the specific needs and interests of our sports-loving subscribers.
• This role sits within the Growth team.

Product Manager, Engagement (Remote)

Account Executive

The Athletic is seeking an experienced sales manager to help expand its Advertising business to be an industry leader. Reporting to the Head of Brand Partnerships, you will be a key member of our growing Brand Partnerships sales team responsible for driving ad revenue via client direct and agency relationships. In this role you will own the end to end sales process for new sourcing, developing, and partnering with new ad partners who want to get their brand in front of The Athletic’s audience across all platforms including web, mobile, audio, newsletters, and social media. Additionally, you will be responsible for maintaining and nurturing relationships with existing ad partners in order to drive renewals and support ongoing business.


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