Senior Project Manager, Partnerships

Work Option

The NBA offers eligible employees the choice to work remotely one day each week.

Role Overview

NBAT2 is seeking a highly organized Senior Project Manager to join the Integrated Marketing & Sales team. This position focuses on hands-on project oversight, collaboration among stakeholders, and proactive resolution of issues to ensure projects meet successful outcomes. The Project Manager plays a pivotal role in client partnership success by managing development and timely delivery throughout the organization.

This position acts as a central liaison among internal teams including Sales, Marketing, Creative, Production, Talent, Social, Legal, and Finance. The ideal candidate will have robust project management expertise, excel in a dynamic media and startup setting, and communicate confidently and clearly across all organizational levels as well as with external clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee internal project coordination for all active sponsor partnerships from initiation to completion
• Collaborate with Sales to organize kickoff calls, prepare kickoff decks, and manage post-call summaries and action items
• Create and maintain comprehensive project schedules involving all key stakeholders
• Monitor all deliverables including budgets, content, legal approvals, and final asset handoffs
• Lead daily communications and updates across internal and external teams via status calls and other processes
• Track program progress to ensure achievement of predetermined KPIs and metrics
• Compile and update program wrap reports in partnership with Integrated Marketing and Sales to assess client satisfaction
• Support RFP responses by ensuring pre-sale activities are documented for cross-team awareness
• Assist in preparing timelines and pre-production documents near project commitment to ensure seamless production handoff

Candidate Requirements

• Between 5 to 7 years of experience managing projects or accounts, preferably in sports, publishing, or digital advertising industries
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with competing deadlines and diverse stakeholders
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable facilitating external partner meetings and internal stakeholder management
• Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools such as AirTable, Figma, SharePoint, Slack, and Google Suite
• Exceptional attention to detail paired with a proactive and solution-focused attitude
• Competent in creating and maintaining complex project timelines and ensuring cross-functional team accountability

Compensation and Benefits

The annual base pay for this role ranges from 120000 to 135000 USD, depending on qualifications and experience. Benefits include comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage, commuter benefits, and unlimited paid time off. The company supports a hybrid working environment.

Diversity and Inclusion

The NBA is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace, considering all candidates based on merit, qualifications, and business needs without discrimination.

Health & Safety

To ensure workplace safety, all personnel working onsite at NBA's New York and New Jersey locations must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with accommodations available for qualifying medical or religious reasons.

About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a worldwide sports and media organization dedicated to uniting and inspiring people globally through basketball. It encompasses multiple professional basketball leagues and reaches audiences in over 214 countries with multilingual programming and extensive digital and social media presence. NBA Cares, the organization’s social responsibility arm, partners with community groups to address education, inclusion, youth and family development, and wellness initiatives worldwide.