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Partner Services - Sports, Media Partnerships

Facebook

Menlo Park, CA - New York, NY

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Job Description

Posted On: September 01, 2017

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. Through our family of apps and services, we're building a different kind of company that connects billions of people around the world, gives them ways to share what matters most to them, and helps bring people closer together. Whether we're creating new products or helping a small business expand its reach, people at Facebook are builders at heart. Our global teams are constantly iterating, solving problems, and working together to empower people around the world to build community and connect in meaningful ways. Together, we can help people build stronger communities — we're just getting started.


Facebook is seeking to grow its Sports Partner Services team within the larger Sports Partnerships organization. The Sports Partnerships team at Facebook works closely with the leading content creators in the world, including leagues, teams, media, journalists and athletes. This is a unique opportunity to execute on a strategy designed to support sports publishers through product expertise, data and insights in order to help them reach their objectives on and off Facebook platforms. This individual will have a focus on our Rights Manager product and copyright protection, to scale outreach and education to the larger sports ecosystem on Facebook. This role will work closely with Strategic Partnership Managers (SPMs) in engaging with top strategic partners, including product education and partner analysis. Besides external partners and the SPM team, this role will also interface and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams such as Partner Product Marketing, Media Operations, Intellectual Property Operations and Partner Engineering teams.


Responsibilities

  • Specialize in Rights Manager – closely interacting with related cross-functional teams and be the key go-to person for the sports vertical
  • Own the Rights Manager onboarding process for sports partners and provide follow-up support
  • Identify and maintain calendar of high priority sports events
  • Research rights structure and ownership of key sports events
  • Provide high touch support and timely solutions to build long term relationships and trust across the sports partner ecosystem
  • Support SPMs in resolving IP-related escalations
  • Conduct data and insights analysis for external partners
  • Leverage data to identify vertical and partner-level opportunities
  • Support scaled partner education and communication efforts


    Required Skills

    Minimum Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree or higher
  • 4+ years of experience in account management, operations and/or project management
  • Understanding of the sports industry and sports publisher ecosystem on Facebook
  • Track record of operating independently, being detail-oriented, and delivering results
  • Able to work both independently, and also as a team with relevant SPMs
  • Experience working with data and drawing insights from data
  • Ability to multi-task, working on different projects and with different partners simultaneously
  • Communication and presentation skills


    Preferred Qualifications

  • Previous experience with digital rights management products
  • Understanding of the sports rights landscape
  • Understanding of the sports industry and sports publisher ecosystem on Facebook