Jobs at LEARFIELD

Leads monthly close activities, journal entries, reconciliations, consolidation, financial reporting, audit support, and US GAAP compliance across a multi-entity organization. Partners with FP&A and business teams on variance analysis, reporting integrity, process improvements, system enhancements, and technical accounting. Supports acquisitions, reorganizations, integrations, and mentoring while maintaining accurate and timely financial results.

Build and deploy practical AI agents, copilots, workflow automations, and prompt-based tools for commercial teams. Partner with business leaders to identify workflow improvements, prototype and refine solutions, connect approved platforms, and collaborate with IT on integrations, security, and governance. Train users, develop playbooks, measure adoption and productivity, and scale successful solutions. The role requires strong business judgment, hands-on AI building experience, cross-functional communication, and continuous learning.

Leads business development and sales of high-value collegiate sports sponsorships, including naming rights, jersey patches, logos, and premium inventory. Builds prospect pipelines, develops customized marketing solutions, negotiates contracts, and manages strategic relationships with brands, universities, and internal teams. Provides asset valuation, commercialization strategy, coaching, and thought leadership while supporting partnership fulfillment. Requires regular travel of approximately 30–50%.

Leads Learfield’s Commercial Insights function and enterprise commercial intelligence agenda. Converts research, consumer behavior, category trends, and marketplace signals into strategic recommendations, commercial opportunities, new sponsorship products, pilots, and scalable offerings. Oversees talent and cross-functional partnerships across sales, strategy, inventory, analytics, valuation, measurement, and technology while identifying untapped ecosystem value and strengthening enterprise growth.

Partners with Corporate Sales to analyze market, audience, sponsorship, category, and consumer data. Develops commercial insights, identifies revenue opportunities, shapes partnership strategy, and translates complex findings into actionable recommendations and compelling narratives. Presents strategic insights to senior stakeholders and collaborates with commercial intelligence, valuation, brand strategy, and creative teams. Requires strong presentation, storytelling, analytical, and commercial strategy skills.

Manage full-cycle recruiting across Learfield business units, including sourcing, candidate assessment, hiring manager consultation, talent pipeline development, stakeholder relationship management, and recruiting strategy execution. Maintain TA data integrity, deliver consistent candidate experiences, advise hiring decisions using market insights, and lead talent acquisition projects.

Coordinates corporate sponsorship activations for a college sports property. Responsibilities include tracking partnership assets and inventory, coordinating with university and brand stakeholders, supporting gameday setup and promotions, supervising event staff, documenting fulfillment, tracking budgets and invoices, and contributing to recap presentations and reporting. The role requires strong organization, communication, flexibility for evenings and weekends, and proficiency with Microsoft Office.

Leads naming-rights business development across collegiate athletic properties, identifying opportunities, cultivating university and brand relationships, and closing large-scale sponsorship agreements. Partners with commercial sales teams, athletic directors, university leaders, agencies, and Fortune 500 brands to develop and negotiate multi-million-dollar deals. Requires extensive travel, executive relationship management, consultative selling, and deep naming-rights or sponsorship expertise.

Provides day-to-day support to licensed partners and platform users, resolving questions about applications, renewals, artwork, royalties, payments, and licensing workflows. Troubleshoots system issues, documents tickets and bugs, escalates complex cases, monitors ticket aging, and identifies recurring support trends. The role also assists with operational processing, internal testing, system updates, process improvements, and documentation while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Develops and executes original, branded, NIL, and social content strategies for university athletics channels. Creates platform-specific plans and content across video, audio, animation, graphics, and sponsored formats. Collaborates with athletics teams, production staff, and sales teams to increase fan engagement and revenue opportunities. Supports projects from concept through delivery, including copywriting, producing, shooting, and occasional editing oversight.

Creates graphics, presentation decks, mockups, infographics, and visual narratives for college athletics sponsorship sales materials. Collaborates with sellers, brand strategists, insights teams, and art directors to communicate value propositions, align designs with school brands, and develop tailored creative solutions. Revises work based on feedback while organizing content for clarity. Requires proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud and Microsoft Office, strong presentation design experience, and the ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Manage client implementation projects from kickoff through launch, including website redesigns, mobile app launches, CMS migrations, platform implementations, and third-party feature activations. Coordinate timelines, scope, dependencies, deliverables, client communications, and cross-functional teams across Design, Engineering, Product, Partner Development, and Support. Maintain project documentation, identify blockers, facilitate handoffs, and improve implementation processes.

Own EDGE’s new-business revenue across media and audience solutions, develop go-to-market strategy, personally close complex strategic partnerships, and build a scalable sales organization. Lead relationships with brands, agencies, and senior marketing executives; establish pipeline, forecasting, quotas, and compensation discipline; and create partnerships with Learfield sports properties to expand sponsorship and media opportunities. Collaborate with activation, strategy, and partner-success teams to deliver and grow client relationships.

Lead growth and market expansion for the Performing Arts segment, owning full sales lifecycle from pipeline development through complex deal execution and renewals. Build and maintain executive relationships, drive upsell and retention, manage RFPs and negotiations, represent the company at industry events, forecast revenue, maintain CRM integrity, and partner cross-functionally to meet revenue, margin, and market share goals.

Lead and evolve the client implementation organization to deliver website redesigns, mobile apps, and CMS migrations. Build scalable processes, govern project delivery, drive cross-functional collaboration, and adopt AI tools to improve implementation efficiency and client outcomes.

Lead the enterprise portfolio function to provide end-to-end visibility and capacity scorecards, align strategic priorities with engineering execution, build and scale a program management team, drive portfolio governance and operating cadence, support executive decision-making, manage resource allocation and capacity planning, and integrate financial tracking and ROI into portfolio reporting.