Senior Director, Brand Partnerships

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Senior Director, Brand Partnerships (Baseball & Soccer Focused)Position Type: Full Time – Forty+ (40+) Hours / WeekCompensation: $70,000 USD - $90,000 USD Base Salary + Competitive Commission StructureCompany: SRS Partners, LLCLocation: Remote (United States)Date of Posting: November 13th, 2026

A Boutique Agency Built for Modern Sponsorship

SRS Partners (‘SRS’) was launched in 2021 to support sports and entertainment properties, brands, and non-profits in developing ways to understand and monetize their commercial rights platform through sponsorship. SRS consists of three verticals: Sponsorship, Rights & Strategy; Sponsorship, Revenue & Sales; and Sponsorship Representation Services. As a boutique agency, SRS is designed to create bespoke solutions for its clients and drive long-term results for our clients through authentic, and best-in-class partnerships. We are a team of highly passionate problem solvers, with over 100 years of collective industry experience looking to build partnership platforms that can scale with the ever-changing partnership landscape across sponsorship, media, experiential marketing, and product integration.

Where You Fit In

The Senior Director, Brand Partnerships is responsible for generating sponsorship revenue on behalf of the SRS Partners portfolio of clients by stewarding targeted brands toward partnerships that meet their business challenges, goals, and objectives. This position requires a ‘hunter’ mentality and someone who can find the right decision maker within an organization while building relationships along the way.

SRS Partners needs this individual to scale with our business as we grow, so you must have an ability to adapt to changing environments, clients, and projects over time, while still being able to maintain the service and approach that a boutique agency can provide. Over time, it is our goal that you become a leader in our organization and will be someone that we can lean on to help our clients reach their revenue goals.

What You Will Be Doing

* Research, prospect, and establish leads for corporate relationships through industry networking, use of third-party lead services, trade publications, and cold calls. * Work with President and Partnership Solutions team to prepare and deliver business proposals and presentations to existing and prospective clients. * Continually assess industry landscape, market demands, innovation, and emerging categories to keep sales strategies and tactics relevant. * Research, ideate, and execute industry leading partnership sales concepts and platforms. * Ensure partner-based business objectives, asset alignment, analytics, and world class storytelling are incorporated into all new sales pitches. * Communicates with new prospects to book meetings to conduct a marketing needs analysis while building longstanding relationships across a variety of industries. * Able to conduct client presentations without the aid of senior leadership. * Maintains diligent and real-time pipeline updates to track individual performance and revenue. * Adapt selling style and technique to organizational priorities, evolving property portfolio, and business needs. * Travel as necessary, around twenty percent (20%) * Other duties and responsibilities as assigned by SRS Partners Senior Leadership Team.

What You Bring

* Bachelor’s degree in business management, marketing, advertising, or sports management (or similar field) from four-year college or university required. * 5-7 years of experience in sponsorship/partnership development focused position(s) in sports, entertainment, advertising, technology, and/or consulting agency. * Prior experience in the baseball and/or soccer landscape is highly desired * Proven ability to consistently close substantial new business deals at a minimum $750K threshold. * Deep relationships with brands, properties, etc. and ability to quickly reach decision makers. * Experienced and well-versed in leading individual sales calls, in addition to leading internal statuses with clients. * Self-motivated individual who can work independently as well as working in a team environment, being a consummate team player, to achieve aggressive individual and team sales goals. * Superior knowledge regarding the practices and principles related to the sale and implementation of corporate partnerships. * Ability to establish and maintain strong working relationships with corporate clients and co-workers. * Roster of industry contacts, past clients, and category success. * Ability to successfully collaborate and influence others in a flexible and dynamic environment * Superior written and verbal communication and presentation skills. * Proficient in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint. * Familiarity with SponsorUnited and CRM tools (SponsorCX) is a plus.

Benefits of Working at SRS

* Fully Remote, Work-from-Home Culture * Unlimited PTO + Company Holidays * Medical Insurance

SRS Partners, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.