Sports Business Development Specialist, Media & Entertainment, Games and Sports

Job description

The Sports Business Development Specialist will serve as a dedicated sports industry expert working across global account teams and alongside fellow industry specialists. This role drives cloud adoption by identifying and developing line-of-business opportunities across sports organizations, leagues, federations, and technology providers worldwide. The ideal candidate brings deep sports industry expertise, a builder mindset, and the ability to engage C-suite stakeholders with credible, outcome-driven conversations — while thriving in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment. Business Skills: - Strategic account planning and executive relationship building across global markets - Ability to articulate business value and ROI for cloud solutions in a sports context - Strong collaboration skills across cross-functional and cross-regional teams - Experience with partner ecosystem development and co-selling - Excellent presentation and communication skills for both technical and business audiences Cloud Knowledge: - Understanding of core cloud services relevant to sports workloads (compute, storage, databases, analytics, ML/AI, security) - Familiarity with cloud partner ecosy...