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Acquisition and Investment Strategy Director

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fanduel logoFanduel · New York City
Full-timeOn-site3d ago
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THE POSITION Our roster has an opening with your name on it We're looking for a Director of Media Investment Strategy, Planning & Operations to shape and lead our media investment allocation strategy with data-driven decision making. We're looking for someone with marketing & commercial savvy to drive company growth through our Sports product. This is a high-profile role with the opportunity to make a material impact on the business outcome for FanDuel Group. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to perform other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs. THE GAME PLAN Everyone on our team has a part to play Build, lead & develop a high performing team focused on delivering excellence in media planning, investment strategy & operations to drive business results. Evolve overall media planning process, ensuring commercial & brand strategy fuels sophisticated media investment to extract optimal results from our partnership portfolio. Manage & challenge existing media investment practice principles to drive brand & business growth both short & long term. Partner with media investment leads to ensure ongoing optimizations in-period, especially around key sports tentpoles to unlock optimal return & ensure fulfillment. Relentlessly drive process & workflow efficiencies with dedicated focus on operational automation to improve overall media org throughput. Partner with GTM teams to optimize investment across sports & help define short-term and long-term optimization to deliver commercially sensible growth results. Holistically understand our marketing investment through marketing mix modeling insights to drive marketing ROI. Support in all major partnership endeavors & joint business plan agreements with tier 1 digital media partners across the calendar year to unlock optimal value for the FanDuel business across all products. Strategically partner with internal media analytics team to further develop performance reporting capabilities & visualizations to provide the digital media team with key insights to enable campaign & strategy optimizations. Drive focus with media team leadership group to ensure achievement of business performance metrics & payback targets. Work with finance counterparts to build & sign off annual marketing investment, to include guidance of quarterly re-forecasting process, ensuring finance goals translate into marketing objectives. Lead large scale partnership investment valuation work with media investment and strategic partnership counterparts Mature our media practice constantly iterating and improving our reporting, insights, experiments, and partnership portfolio. Lead and influence media and campaign marketing teams to help deliver against media targets. Foster a test and learn culture that continues to improve our performance and processes. THE STATS What we're looking for in our next teammate 8+ years of experience in digital/growth marketing with a focus on consumer acquisition 5+ years of managerial experience preferred Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business or Analytical field (or other relevant discipline) preferred Strong communication skills and experience influencing senior leadership teams Proven growth mindset; Product led, data driven and highly creative Results oriented, with the need to be objective and measure performance Metrics driven and continuously seeking improvement of marketing efforts to increase quality and productivity Strong commercial & financial acumen with proven ability to manage senior stakeholders. Track record of delivering business outcomes Strong analytical rigor to your decision making Ability and eagerness to effectively balance the big-picture strategic work with execution Proficient in a range of tools across the marketing stack: Amplitude, Appsflyer, GA, Tableau preferred Customer focused Interest in the sports gaming industry preferred ABOUT FANDUEL FanDuel Group is the premier mobile gaming company in the United States and Canada. FanDuel Group consists of a portfolio of leading brands across mobile wagering including: America's #1 Sportsbook, FanDuel Sportsbook; its leading iGaming platform, FanDuel Casino; the industry's unquestioned leader in horse racing and advance-deposit wagering, FanDuel Racing; and its daily fantasy sports product. In addition, FanDuel Group operates FanDuel TV, its broadly distributed linear cable television network and FanDuel TV+, its leading direct-to-consumer OTT platform. FanDuel Group has a presence across all 50 states, Canada, and Puerto Rico. The company is based in New York with US offices in Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Jersey City, as well as global offices in Canada and Scotland. The company's affiliates have offices worldwide, including in Ireland, Portugal, Romania, and Australia. FanDuel Group is a subsidiary of Flutter Enterta


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