Senior Manager, Content Operations

Play On is looking for a process-driven, editorially-minded Senior Manager, Content Operations to serve as a key leader connecting our Content team to revenue, marketing, design and product across Max Preps and the broader Play On portfolio. Building and maintaining systems that better connect Content and Revenue is the top priority of this role, but Max Preps is looking for a process-oriented leader who can represent the Content team in all settings.

Working closely with the Play On Sports revenue team, this role helps translate major content priorities and commercial opportunities into executable plans. The goals are protecting editorial standards, audience trust, and team capacity while unlocking new revenue. This is a remote role, with upfront travel to Max Preps’ Sacramento, CA office expected for training and relationship-building. Reporting to the Sr. Director, Content Strategy and working in close partnership with key revenue, marketing and design leaders, the ideal candidate is equal parts operator, translator, and editorial advocate.

• Direct and Indirect Max Preps Revenue Growth – Build the systems, workflows and operating rhythms that help the Content organization prioritize, plan and execute across editorial, social, production and commercial initiatives. While this role sits on the content team, ensuring revenue growth is a key metric for success.
• Driving Max Preps Audience Growth – Bridging the Content team with Marketing, Product and Design to ensure the company’s biggest content initiatives drive traffic and awareness back to Max Preps, as well as down-funnel growth for membership and subscription services. This role requires a cross-functional thinker who can define the intent and target audience behind content decisions.

• Content Operations Leadership – Build the systems, workflows and operating rhythms that help the Content organization prioritize, plan and execute across editorial, social, production and commercial initiatives.
• Content–Revenue Liaison – Serve as the primary connection point between Content and Revenue/Client Strategy, translating commercial priorities into content-ready plans and making content capabilities and constraints clear to sellers.
• Process & Playbook Development – Using the learnings from the Content-Revenue relationship, build and continually refine the workflows, templates, and playbooks that connect Content to other teams (Marketing, Design, Product). Initiatives such as sponsorship packaging, revenue-friendly social formats, RFP/pitch creative development, pre- and post-sale production coordination transition from one-off custom asks to repeatable systems incorporating all key stakeholders.
• Editorial & Resourcing Judgment – Apply strong editorial judgment and operational judgment to assess budgets, timelines and resource needs across Content priorities and commercial opportunities.
• Cross-Functional Program Management – Own agendas, action items, and timeline tracking for recurring meetings between Content and other teams so every stakeholder knows what they own and by when. Marketing and design are key stakeholders, with this role over communicating and working closely with both departments, especially around major company tentpole events.
• Tentpole & Campaign Support – Partner on flagship Max Preps/Play On initiatives (e.g., Game of the Week, Flag Football Showdown) to ensure they deliver for both audience and brand-partner goals, including post-event reporting that supports renewed partnerships
• Draft rough budgets and production timelines for custom, partner-driven content executions, and advocate for the resourcing the Content team needs to deliver
• Proactively identify when an existing…