Manager, Club Sponsorships National Women’s Soccer League; NWSL

The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) is one of the fastest-growing professional sports leagues in the U.S., powered by 16 clubs and a deep roster of the world’s best players, and built on record-shattering fan, media and commercial growth. Now in its 13th season, the league’s momentum continues to accelerate, with viewership and attendance numbers growing rapidly, social media fandom on the rise, team valuations massively increasing and new top sponsors investing in the NWSL brand.

This unprecedented growth in audience, media reach, and franchise value reflects the NWSL’s expanding fan base and increasing dominance in the sports‑media landscape and popular culture. The future of the NWSL is now — and we’re looking for world‑class talent like you to help us continue the momentum.

The NWSL is seeking a Manager, Club Sponsor ships to sit within the league’s Club Business team and serve as a strategic resource to clubs on all aspects of sponsorship performance. This role is focused on elevating club sponsorship operations league‑wide through club relationship management, regulatory oversight, performance reporting and benchmarking, best practice development, and hands‑on advisory support. This role represents an opportunity to join the NWSL’s Club Business team in its early stages while also offering the opportunity to help shape the future direction of the department and ways that the League and NWSL Clubs collaborate to drive commercial value.

The ideal candidate will have a “League and Club Mindset”, meaning someone who understands that the league is only as strong as its individual clubs and possesses the diplomacy to manage stakeholders with competing interests. The ideal candidate will also possess strengths such as a commercial fluency in sponsorship sales and activation, a collaborative working style with internal and external stakeholders, a passion for operational excellence, a consultative mindset, and strong analytical instincts and rigor.

The Manager, Club Sponsorship will work closely with club partnership teams across the league and cross‑functionally with league departments such as Corporate Partnerships (Business Development and Partnerships Management), Consumer Products, Broadcast, and Legal. You will act as a strategic advisor, regulatory expert, and operational liaison, ensuring that club‑level partnerships align with League Commercial Regulations while maximizing local revenue growth and gameday execution.

In addition, you will also help build shared frameworks for measuring sponsorship value, identify revenue growth opportunities through cross‑club benchmarking, and develop tools and resources that help clubs sell more effectively and service partners at a higher standard.

• Act as the primary point of contact for Club Sponsorship departments, providing guidance on best practices in local partnership sales and activation.

• Serve as the league liaison to the NWSL Partnerships team to identify and navigate intersections between League‑level partners and Club‑level deals.
• Conduct regular club communications to assess club sponsorship performance, utilizing data to identify growth opportunities and risks across the league landscape.

• Develop subject‑matter expertise in the NWSL Commercial Regulations, guiding clubs through the complexities of league and club commercial rights, commercial category exclusivities, sponsorship inventory, and other topics.
• Collaborate directly with NWSL Legal to review sponsorship agreements to ensure compliance with league‑wide governance.
• Mediate and resolve “category conflict” discussions, in collaboration with the League Partnerships department and Legal, between league‑wide sponsors and local club sponsors.

• Direct the preparation of monthly league‑wide club sponsorship meetings, including the creation of high‑level decks, pre‑read materials, and actionable post‑meeting recaps.
• Coordinate with the NWSL Partnership Management team to ensure clubs are successfully executing…