Senior Strategic Planning Manager (Sports)

Location: New York, USA; eligible employees may work remotely one day per week. Onsite employees in the New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, subject to applicable accommodations.

Salary: $140,000–$155,000 annually, plus an annual discretionary performance bonus.

Company

hirify.global is a global sports and media organization operating professional basketball leagues, digital media platforms, merchandise programs, and community initiatives worldwide.

What you will do

• Support fan growth strategies through research, strategic analysis, and business planning.
• Coordinate annual planning cycles, strategic reviews, and priority-setting initiatives.
• Develop executive presentations, business cases, strategic recommendations, roadmaps, and planning frameworks.
• Analyze fan behavior, consumer insights, business performance, industry trends, and competitive benchmarks to identify growth opportunities.
• Build dashboards, scorecards, reporting, and measurement frameworks for fan growth initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional strategic workstreams, timelines, stakeholder communications, executive meetings, workshops, and business reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree.
• 5+ years of experience in strategy, marketing, consulting, analytics, or a related discipline.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional projects and developing executive presentations and strategic recommendations.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including the ability to translate consumer insights and performance data into actionable business recommendations.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, project management, and organizational skills.
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills; familiarity with visualization tools is a plus.

Nice to have

• Experience in sports, entertainment, media, or consumer brands.
• Passion for basketball and understanding of the hirify.global fan ecosystem.
• Consumer-first mindset, curiosity, and initiative.

Culture & Benefits

• Cross-functional collaboration and shared best practices in strategic thinking, planning, and business analysis.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance.
• Fertility and family-forming assistance, wellbeing allowance, educational assistance, and mental health coaching or therapy.
• HSA and healthcare or dependent-care FSAs, a 401(k) retirement plan, vacation, sick time, and personal days.
• Hybrid work option with up to one remote day per week for eligible employees.