Vice President, Account Management, Influential Sports

VP, Account Management

Influential Sports is seeking a strategic and relationship-driven VP, Account Management to lead senior client partnerships and oversee the successful delivery of integrated sports marketing programs. This role serves as a primary client leadership contact, responsible for ensuring athlete, creator, sponsorship, and experiential investments translate into meaningful brand impact and long-term partnership growth.

The VP will act as a trusted advisor to clients, bringing proactive thinking, cultural fluency, and operational leadership to complex sports and influence-driven engagements. Internally, this individual will guide cross-functional teams spanning strategy, talent partnerships, media, and activation to ensure programs are executed seamlessly and deliver measurable value.

This is a high-visibility leadership role for someone who thrives in dynamic environments, is deeply fluent in sports and creator marketing, and is motivated by building enduring client relationships grounded in trust, performance, and innovation.

Responsibilities

Serve as the senior relationship lead across key client accounts and internal agency teams, fostering strong executive-level partnerships and acting as a trusted strategic advisor.

Oversee the end-to-end delivery of integrated sports marketing programs, ensuring athlete, creator, sponsorship, media, and activations are executed to the highest standard.

Partner with strategy, talent partnerships, and activation teams to translate client objectives into clear scopes of work and actionable campaign plans.

Guide cross-functional teams to ensure alignment across timelines, deliverables, performance expectations, and reporting outputs.

Provide proactive recommendations and thought leadership that help clients maximize the value of their sports and cultural investments.

Monitor program performance and deliver clear insights and optimization opportunities that strengthen campaign outcomes and client confidence.

Support account growth by identifying opportunities to expand partnerships, introduce new capabilities, and deepen client engagement over time.

Qualifications

7-10+ years of experience in client services, account leadership, sports marketing, influencer marketing, media, or integrated agency environments.

Proven success managing senior-level client relationships and leading complex, multi-channel marketing programs.

Strong understanding of the sports marketing ecosystem, including sponsorships, athlete partnerships, creator marketing, experiential activations, and media integration.

Strategic thinker with the ability to connect cultural insight, audience understanding, and performance data to actionable client recommendations.

Confident communicator and presenter who can build trust with executive stakeholders.

Highly organized operator with strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple high-profile initiatives simultaneously.

Collaborative leader who can motivate and align cross-functional teams around shared client goals.

Commercially aware with experience supporting revenue growth, program profitability, and long-term partnership expansion.

You're an Ideal Fit if:

You are passionate about building deep client partnerships and becoming a trusted extension of their marketing leadership team.

You thrive at the intersection of sports, culture, and influence and understand how brands can authentically participate in fandom.

You enjoy balancing strategic leadership with hands-on delivery oversight.

You are energized by fast-moving environments where creativity, operational rigor, and relationship management all matter.