Sports Business Operations & Growth, Apple Sports
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Come be a part of the Apple Sports Group — one of the most exciting and fastest-growing areas at Apple. We are seeking an experienced, thoughtful, and entrepreneurial individual to lead efforts to grow subscriptions, viewership, and engagement for our growing portfolio of sports properties and partnerships. You will regularly interface with senior executives and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams throughout Apple to solve problems and implement programs that achieve core business objectives. The role requires a highly-motivated and adaptive self-starter to meet goals and hard deadlines. Candidates should have exceptional stakeholder and project management skills, the ability to balance competing priorities and deadlines, a proven track record of building and sustaining successful digital businesses, and a deep understanding of the sports and video streaming landscape.
In this role, you will lead all phases of initiatives that will grow subscriptions, viewership, and engagement for our portfolio of sports properties, including MLS Season Pass, Friday Night Baseball, and the Apple Sports App. You will support roadmap planning and work closely with Apple’s product and engineering teams to define business requirements for all sports programs. You will revise strategies and processes with internal teams and present key findings and proposals to senior leaders. You will collaborate with a cross-functional team of stakeholders at Apple - product, marketing, engineering, legal, analytics, finance, editorial, business development and more - to ensure all business, technical, and customer experience objectives are met. To be successful in this role, you should be customer-focused, highly analytical, flexible, and team-minded, thrive in ambiguous environments, and love sports.
- Minimum 8+ years of meaningful industry work experience with a deep understanding of sports and streaming.
- Consistent record of successfully executing complex business and technical projects cross-functionally within a large business structure.
- Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate a strong point of view clearly and succinctly.
- Exceptional relationship-building and interpersonal skills; ability to develop strong working partnerships inside and outside of Apple.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to quickly translate data into actionable insights; fluency with business and financial modeling.
- BA/BS degree required
- Self-starter mentality with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment; comfort managing ambiguity while delivering results with minimal guidance.
- Comfort working closely with engineering and product teams to solve complicated technical challenges.
- Strong leadership and project management capabilities with exceptional attention to detail.
- Thorough understanding of integrating product, design, business, marketing, engineering and stakeholder considerations to support broader business objectives.
- Strong commitment to the customer experience, putting the Apple user first in all decisions.
- Ability to meet deadlines and reach consensus while balancing many projects and priorities.
- Passion for sports, media, and consumer technology.
- MBA preferred
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