Director of Advertising, GameChanger
$200-230k
+ Offers Equity and Offers Bonus
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
Open for applications
Scorekeeping & statistics app for sports teams
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$200-230k
+ Offers Equity and Offers Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
GameChanger's mission is to help families elevate the next generation through sports.
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of experience in digital advertising, monetization, or adtech, with exposure to both product and GTM workstreams
- Proven track record of delivering advertising growth within consumer-facing platforms—ideally streaming, retail media, marketplaces, or social
- Comfortable working across matrixed orgs, shared ownership, and joint accountability (e.g., media networks, partnerships, alliances)
- Confident communicator and partner to sales, product, and exec stakeholders
- Highly execution-oriented—moves fast, solves ambiguity, and iterates in real time
- Skilled at translating technical complexity into clear, sellable value propositions
- Experience in youth/family/sports content or community platforms preferred
- Familiarity with the ad needs of non-endemic brands preferred
What the job involves
- GameChanger is looking for a Director of Advertising to lead and accelerate our advertising strategy in partnership with the DICK’S Media Network (DMN)
- This role is the operational and strategic bridge between GC and DMN—responsible for driving our advertising product roadmap, sales proposition, and go-to-market execution
- Reporting to our President, you’ll serve as the primary driver of GameChanger’s advertising story: shaping how our inventory is packaged, sold, and brought to market, while ensuring our brand and platform are consistently represented within broader DMN campaigns
- This is a hands-on, matrixed leadership role ideal for a builder who can both navigate complexity and deliver results
- Monetization & Product Strategy - Define and evolve GC’s ad monetization roadmap in close partnership with Product, Data, and Engineering. Guide what we build, why it matters, and how it ladders up to revenue and user experience
- Native Ad Format Development - Identify ad opportunities embedded in GC’s live content and community behaviors. Evaluate tradeoffs, validate concepts, and champion native formats that add value
- Go-To-Market Leadership - Lead the development of GC-specific pitch materials and sales narratives in coordination with DMN Sales and Product Marketing. Serve as the primary author of GC’s advertising story
- Brand & Agency Enablement - Join advertiser conversations, evangelize the GC value prop, and partner with DMN Sales to support education and adoption—especially for non-endemic growth areas
- Cross-Functional Execution - Operate as the primary driver of GC advertising initiatives—aligning teams, managing handoffs, and resolving ambiguity across GC and DMN stakeholders
- Friction Removal & Escalation - Surface and resolve operational blockers across product and sales workflows. Serve as the go-to partner for account ownership clarity, internal communications, and workflow cohesion
Our take
The competitive nature of sports has always been driven by scorekeeping, and nowadays results are often consumed online. However, for smaller teams it can be difficult to provide this information digitally, as they do not have dedicated web development staff.
GameChanger provides a scorekeeping and statistics platform for sports teams to engage with their fans, that allows viewers to track the progress of a game in real-time similar to with professional sports. The company also embeds a live-streaming service into the platform to facilitate remote viewing, helping to increase audience engagement.
Whilst some sports teams already stream events on platforms such as Twitch and Youtube, most do not have the technical resources to achieve this. GameChanger has recognized this gap in the market, providing a simple yet unified platform for sports scoreboards and streaming, providing a fair opportunity for any team to maximize their community engagement.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
37% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Mar 2014
$6.8m
SERIES B
Nov 2011
$1.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $10.7m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation - Take time off work and travel the world. Enjoy unlimited vacation time.
- Remote Work - GameChanger’s can work from anywhere. You’ll receive a tech budget to make sure you’re set up for success.
- Health Insurance - We’ll make sure you stay healthy. Health, dental, vision, and other perks like a pre-tax FSA - we've got you covered.
- 401K Plan - We’re always looking ahead and so should you. Did we mention that we match?
- Tech Budget - You receive a large tech budget every two years. It’s yours to keep.
- Continued Learning - Tuition reimbursement, an annual flexible learning budget, mentorship opportunities, and more.
- Parental Leave - Get the time off you need with extended parental leave for both parents.
- Wellness - Stay fit and healthy on us. We offer a Gympass membership.
- Other Perks - Monthly Snack Boxes, Dick's Sporting Goods employee discount, Demo Day, Hack Day, virtual and in person team social events
Company HQ
East Village, New York, NY
Leadership
Sameer Ahuja
(President, not founder)SVP at DICK’S Sporting Goods, that owns GameChanger. Former Founder and CEO of Dera Capital Advisors, as well as former Co-founder and COO/CFO of the Sports Museum of America.
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