Marketing Program Manager - Sports Sponsorship

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies - from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups - use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone's reach while doing the most important work of your career.

The Marketing Strategy and Operations (S&O) team creates the systems and rhythms that empower the marketing team to move quickly and work well together. We partner with the CMO and Marketing Leadership Team to set strategy, run operations, plan effectively, and decide how to use resources so the organization can perform at its best. We are executive advisors, masters of scale, and drive accountability to our organization’s stated goals and metrics.

We are looking for a Marketing Program Manager to drive a multi-prong sports sponsorship program. This involves end-to-end program management as we plan, execute, and test and optimize sponsorships across multiple sports teams, global execution, and dozens of sporting events. This high-profile program (internally and externally) sits at the intersection of brand, marketing and communications, and B2B hospitality / pipeline building for an executive facing audience. This is an inaugural program with a multi-year commitment, meaning you will get the opportunity to shape the program from the ground-up into a world-class execution engine. This requires someone who can move fluidly between strategic planning and hands-on execution and can zoom in and out based on the task at hand. 

• Lead global end-to-end program management for a multi-year sports sponsorship program across multiple sports teams / events / internal Stripe teams and workstreams
• Build and maintain repeatable playbooks, best practices documentation, and toolkits to efficiently scale our event execution engine
• Coordinate and manage budget plans in partnership with the accountable leads to ensure spend is on-track
• Own program communications in digestible and exec-ready format, including operationalizing reporting across functions into unified views
• Drive ongoing improvements via process innovation, automation, and the adoption of AI-powered tools to increase productivity and transform workflows

A tenacious, organized problem-solver who is a self-starter. You bring structure, clarity, and simplicity to complex problems and focus teams with competing priorities into aligned goals and plans. You are equally comfortable presenting to executives as you are clearing tactical roadblocks to the team. You design systems, tools, and AI-first workflows to structure and automate programs and processes. You don’t think 5 steps ahead, you think 100 steps ahead; you lead teams to structure phased milestones to achieve the intended end vision. You proactively anticipate risk and account for risks and dependencies in plans to ensure we are planful and prepared for every foreseeable execution need.

We’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

• 7-10+ years of project management experience, ideally in brand, marketing, sports, or events
• Strong experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholders at the executive and working team level and competing priorities
• Excellent organizational, communication, and follow-through skills
• Experience creating playbooks, toolkits, and operational documentation for scaled program maturity

• Experience with large-scale, high-profile, executive-facing brand hospitality events
• Experience managing projects in Asana (or other project planning software)
• Experience with Salesforce (e.g. for managing audience building and reporting)
• Experience partnering with agencies, vendors and third parties to bring consistency and standards
• Experience in the Tech industry; financial services, payments, or B2B software a plus
• AI project management workflow automation 
• East coast preferred, to manage timezones across Pacific and European teams