The Athletic Benefits Overview

Own commercial strategy and finance for complex licensing, advertising, and partnership deals. Build financial models, evaluate investments, support negotiations, and translate financial analysis for executives. Track post-close performance, manage P&L impacts, integrate deal results into forecasts, analyze variances, and identify monetization and rights-cost trends. Partner with Legal and Accounting to ensure deal terms produce accurate financial outcomes.

Lead The Athletic’s product design vision and organization of approximately 10 designers. Develop prototypes and strategic concepts for a next-generation sports app, influence product direction using data-backed perspectives, and remain hands-on with design reviews, Figma, and prototyping. Establish AI-native design tools and workflows, coach team members, manage performance, and collaborate with executive leaders across engineering, product, data, marketing, and commercial functions. The role is remote in the U.S. or Canada and requires regular travel.

Own commercial planning and financial analysis for high-value licensing, advertising, and partnership deals. Build valuation models, support negotiations, track post-close performance, manage P&L impacts, integrate deal results into forecasts, explain variances, and present insights to executive leadership. Partner with Legal and Accounting to ensure deal terms produce sound financial outcomes.