Senior Associate, Digital Casino Partnerships
As a Senior Associate, Digital Casino Partnerships, you'll help shape how DraftKings engages casino players through some of their most impactful digital partnerships. You'll own the day-to-day management of a portfolio of high-profile media partners, creators, and emerging platforms, helping bring innovative marketing activations to life while driving measurable business results.
Working across Marketing, Analytics, Legal, and Business Development, you'll play a key role in identifying new opportunities, strengthening strategic relationships, and evolving how they activate partnerships as their business continues to grow.
- Own the day-to-day management of DraftKings' portfolio of casino-focused digital partnerships, serving as the primary relationship manager for existing and future strategic partners.
- Execute partnership deliverables from planning through launch, ensuring contractual commitments are fulfilled compliantly, align with DraftKings creative standards, and maximise performance.
- Build trusted relationships with external partners by leading ongoing communication, campaign planning, performance reviews, and issue resolution.
- Collaborate with the Casino Integrated Marketing Team and cross-functional partners, including Social, Paid Media, Legal, Analytics, and Business Development, to deliver integrated partnership activations that support business priorities.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen existing partnerships by developing innovative activations that authentically engage casino audiences, unlock additional strategic value, and support business growth.
- Manage partnership budgets through weekly spend tracking, forecasting, reconciliation, and monthly financial reporting.
- Analyze partnership performance alongside the Analytics Team, using data and business insights to optimise campaigns and improve return on investment.
- Leverage AI and emerging technologies to improve partnership workflows, measurement, reporting, and operational efficiency across the Digital Partnerships Team.
- A Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Communications, Business, Management, or a related field with at least 2 years of experience in partnership marketing, casino or gaming marketing, business development, media partnerships, talent partnerships, or a related field (required).
- Experience managing external partnerships with media companies, publishers, creators, brands, or other high-profile organisations (required).
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives while balancing multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and evolving business needs (required).
- Strong relationship management skills with the ability to build credibility and influence both internal teams and external partners (required).
- Excellent project management and organisational skills with exceptional attention to detail (required).
- Experience managing partnership budgets, forecasts, and financial reporting (required).
- An analytical mindset with experience using performance data to evaluate campaigns and identify optimisation opportunities (required).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with a passion for casino entertainment, digital media, content partnerships, and emerging consumer engagement trends (required).
- Comprehensive health benefits, including various medical plans, dental, and vision.
- Wellbeing Program with free therapy sessions with Lyra Mental Health Solution, Lyra Employee Assistance Program, the Calm App, and Virtual Yoga Classes.
- 14 weeks of 100% paid parental leave to all global team members and workplace lactation support.
- Partnership with Care.com for backup childcare for US employees.
- Family planning benefits supporting adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatments, or other family planning.
- Flexible PTO for US employees.
- Pet insurance.
- Gym reimbursement.
- Financial planning resources including 401(k) matching and Origin Financial.
- Commuter benefits.
- Tuition Reimbursement Program.
DraftKings Inc. is a leading American digital sports entertainment and gaming company, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 2012, it started in daily fantasy sports and has grown into one of the largest US online sportsbook and iGaming operators. The company offers mobile sports betting, online casino and daily fantasy contests across regulated North American markets. DraftKings is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people.