The Athletic Benefits Overview

Own commercial strategy and finance for complex licensing, advertising, and partnership deals. Build financial models, evaluate investments, support negotiations, and translate financial analysis for executives. Track post-close performance, manage P&L impacts, integrate deal results into forecasts, analyze variances, and identify monetization and rights-cost trends. Partner with Legal and Accounting to ensure deal terms produce accurate financial outcomes.

Own commercial planning and financial analysis for high-value licensing, advertising, and partnership deals. Build valuation models, support negotiations, track post-close performance, manage P&L impacts, integrate deal results into forecasts, explain variances, and present insights to executive leadership. Partner with Legal and Accounting to ensure deal terms produce sound financial outcomes.

Leads and scales the Growth Product Insights data practice, managing and mentoring data analysts while contributing hands-on analytical work. The role drives proactive insights, experimentation, causal inference, cohort modeling, KPI development, and strategic recommendations for product and growth leaders. It also strengthens data quality and metric governance, partners with engineering teams on complex pipelines and event data, and integrates modern analytics and generative AI tools into team workflows.