Growth and Partnership Manager

# Growth and Partnership Manager## USA Fencing•### @USAFencing

Posted on 7/28/2026
• Full-time##

Job Description We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.

USA Fencing is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of fencing in the United States. Its mission is to grow and promote the sport of fencing in the United States, honor its rich traditions and achieve sustained international success.

Job Summary:

The Manager, Growth & Partnerships is a scrappy, execution-first generalist who serves as the tip of the spear on outreach, brand collaboration pitching, earned media and commercial partnership support for USA Fencing. Reporting to the Chief of Strategy & Marketing and working closely with the CEO, this role is an extension of USA Fencing’s commercial and media firepower at one of the most consequential moments in USA Fencing’s history — with revenue approaching $20M, the fast-growing membership, and a runway to the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

This role is built for an ambitious 2–4-year operator, an absolute hustle-master or mistress who is equally excited about drafting outreach, pitching a fashion house on a brand collaboration, placing a feature about Fencing in unexpected places, and building partnerships to take a sport to another level. Responsibilities are weighed roughly evenly across three pillars: outbound outreach and lead generation, collaboration pitching and media and earned media, and commercial partnership support.

The position is a generalist seat — if it requires drafting a great email, building a deck overnight, getting a reporter on the phone, or chasing a no-reply until it becomes a yes, it lands on this desk.

Primary Responsibilities:

Outbound Outreach and Lead Generation (~50%)    
• Build and execute outbound email and telephone campaigns to generate qualified meetings for the CEO, Chief of Strategy & Marketing and Communications teams.  
• Conduct prospect research across target lists and execute against growth needs of USA Fencing in media, social media, collaborations, creators, brand partnerships, advertising partnerships, commercial partnerships and associated growth areas.  
• Draft outreach, including tailored hooks tied to USA Fencing’s demographic thesis  
• Maintain CRM hygiene with religious discipline so the pipeline remains a trustworthy single source of truth    Pitching, Media and Earned Media (~25%)    
• Pitch tier-one and trade media; if unsuccessful, try again.  
• Inform and collate media needs across the USA Fencing team, becoming intimately familiar with USA Fencing athlete interests, history and unusual angles necessary to place a media story.  
• Build and maintain reporter and editor relationships across sport, business, fashion, lifestyle and Olympic & Paralympic verticals  
• Support the architecture of USA Fencing’s media campaign and amplify earned wins across owned channels    Commercial Partnership Support (~25%)    
• Prepare prospect research memos, briefing books and tailored decks ahead of partnership meetings  
• Build follow-up materials and one-pagers, and execute follow-up communications with discipline after every external meeting  
• Research brand marketing priorities, recent campaigns and reported sponsorship deals to ensure pitches are sharply targeted  
• Support partner communications and light activation execution for signed deals, including hospitality coordination at marquee USA Fencing events  
• Maintain commercial CRM hygiene, deal-stage tracking and pipeline reporting in…