Creative Strategist, Partnership Sales & Activation

Bay FC is seeking a Creative Strategist to join our Partnership Sales team. This is a strategy-first role for someone who comes from a creative agency environment and knows how to build a brand narrative from data, cultural insight, fan community, and market intelligence — then frame it as a solution to a brand's actual business problem. 

• →Develop original creative concepts and partnership narratives that connect a prospective partner's brand goals to Bay FC's platform, audience, and cultural moment

• →Build and design compelling pitch decks working from deal memos, strategy briefs, and verbal direction, often on tight timelines

• →Use data and insights provided by our Business Insights team and market intelligence to surface the "human truths" and industry narratives that make a pitch land
• →Track cultural trends, brand behavior, and the broader women's sports landscape to identify angles and opportunities that keep Bay FC's sales story ahead of the conversation

• →Translate complex sponsorship packages into clear, two-sided stories: what the partner gets and why it maps directly to their business objectives

• →Serve as the main ideation engine for Existing or new partners to assist upsells, renewals, one off opportunities and new Partner pitches.  

• →Conduct brand and prospect research to tailor each pitch to a specific company's goals, not a generic template

• →Contribute to brainstorms and ideation sessions, bringing a brand strategist's POV to partnership concept development

• →Maintain and evolve Bay FC's partnership sales presentation standards and library of assets, to position us to move quickly

• 4–7 years in a creative agency, brand strategy, communications planning, or integrated marketing role; sports industry background not required, genuine cultural curiosity and an excitement about providing real solutions to marketers IS required

• Demonstrated ability to develop strategic narratives and present them to senior audiences through compelling deck work

• A strategy-first thinker who can also physically build the deck, proficiency in Keynote, PowerPoint, and/or Google Slides required; Adobe Creative Suite a plus

• Strong instincts for brand storytelling, with the ability to connect data and insight to creative ideas

• Comfortable working in ambiguity, responding to rough direction, and producing polished work quickly

• Deep interest in culture, brands, and how they show up in the world — sports, entertainment, media, technology

• Collaborative, low-ego, high-output