Operating Partner

Stealth sports venture

• Partnerships, growth and operations
  
  

Location: Remote — United States

You’ve built relationships that lead to paying business and teams that deliver. Now you want a larger role in building a company and a meaningful share in its value. We’re looking for an operating partner who will lead commercial growth and build the operations behind it.

The product is fully built: a digital sports platform focused on fan engagement and community. Your experience building partnerships, reaching audiences and leading teams will help shape the venture’s commercial direction. The product name, features and launch plans remain confidential during this stage.

Just Badge, a venture studio, brings the finished product, a brand foundation, product leadership and a senior engineering team. You bring relationships, business judgment and the ability to deliver through others.

What you’ll lead

• Develop partnerships, close agreements and build repeat business.
• Turn goals into plans with clear budgets, responsibilities and deadlines.
• Recruit for approved roles, delegate, coach and develop the team.
• Coordinate commercial, product and engineering work to deliver profitably.
  
  

Your initial plan will focus on testing commercial interest and identifying the resources needed to deliver. Targets will reflect launch timing, committed studio support, budget and your agreed time commitment.

You’ll lead within agreed goals and budgets. Company strategy, final hiring approvals and major spending decisions remain with studio leadership.

Strong execution, sustained results and demonstrated leadership can lead to VP or a higher executive role as the business develops.

What you bring

• Relationships that produce revenue: You’ve personally originated and closed business with brands, agencies or other commercial partners.
• Team-building experience: You’ve hired, developed and held people accountable for measurable results.
• Operational and financial judgment: You understand cash flow, margins and priorities, and can turn plans into reliable delivery.
• Hands-on ambition: You still make the calls, follow up, solve problems and adapt when evidence calls for a change.
  
  

Nice to have

None of these are required. If you meet most of the requirements above, we’d like to hear from you.

• Sports, media or entertainment background: You’ve worked in sports, media, entertainment, agencies or another business built on audiences.
• Sponsorship sales: You’ve sold sponsorships or branded content to companies that want to reach sports fans.
• Industry relationships: You know people at leagues, sports media companies, podcasts or creator networks.
• Consumer growth: You’ve helped grow a consumer app, online community or fan base, and you know which channels drove the growth.
• Creator partnerships: You’ve worked with creators or podcasters on co-branded content or revenue-share deals.
• Startup experience: You’ve helped build something early, ideally with your own money or equity at stake.
• Results reporting: You can show partners clear audience and campaign results, and you use data to decide where to spend.
  
  

Ownership and pay

Up to 20% equity can be earned over four years against agreed performance targets, before future dilution.

Option for additional 10% equity with $30,000 investment.

There is no funded starting salary. You will receive the venture’s first salary when revenue allows; no start date is guaranteed.

What we’ll agree in writing first

Before you start work, you’ll privately review the venture and we’ll agree both sides’ commitments:

• The venture: the product, budget, studio support and charges, decision rights and funding needs.
• Your pay: the salary amount, the measurable revenue and cash-flow conditions for pay, who confirms them, a review date, and what happens if salary cannot begin as planned.
• Your time: your weekly time commitment.
• Ownership: equity, sale and departure terms, set out in the proposed agreements.
  
  

Skills: sports,leadership,partnerships,revenue