Director, Global Market Development

🕒 September 22

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Description

• Drive the development and execution of X Games' global market strategy • Evaluate new markets, prioritize opportunities, and shape the competitive roadmap • Research and evaluate potential host markets, assessing event fit, funding potential, and long-term strategic value • Build market analyses, feasibility assessments, and scenario models to support decision-making • Track global events, competitor properties, and tourism economics • Partner with the SVP to shape the X Games event schedule, identifying markets, venues, and formats for future seasons • Lead scouting and evaluation of new host markets, venues, and event formats across winter and summer seasons • Contribute to multi-year schedule development, balancing strategic priorities, market demand, and operational feasibility • Coordinate feasibility reviews with event operations, finance, and production teams • Develop and document processes for host market identification, outreach, proposal, and contract execution • Lead creation of bid presentations, pitch materials, and financial models for prospective host cities • Coordinate internal teams to structure compelling and compliant offers • Manage post-agreement delivery, including economic impact reports, milestone tracking, and host market partner engagement • Engage government, tourism boards, resorts, venue partners, and internal live event operations, commercial, marketing, league operations, finance, and legal teams

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in strategy consulting, sports business, global events, or entertainment • Bachelor's degree required • MBA or advanced degree preferred • Strategy or consulting background strongly preferred • Ability to build rigorous business cases, financial models, and market assessments • Strong project management skills; ability to manage multiple workstreams, markets, and stakeholders simultaneously • Exceptional stakeholder management; credibility with senior government officials, tourism boards, and commercial partners • International business experience, ideally including exposure to deal-making or partnerships in non-US markets • Entrepreneurial and adaptable; comfortable building processes from scratch in a fast-moving, high-ambiguity environment • Excellent written and verbal communication; confident presenter to senior audiences • Experience in sports, particularly growth properties, international leagues, or action sports, preferred • Multi-language skills, financial modeling, live event operations experience, and familiarity with AI tools are a plus

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