About the role
Sporty Group is looking for a Communications & Growth Partnerships Lead to own customer communications and regional marketing partnerships. This role blends channel optimization, localization, and commercial partnerships to drive growth at scale.
What you'll be doing
Identify, negotiate, and manage marketing partnerships across Africa & LATAM
Optimize WhatsApp, SMS, and email performance (delivery, open, CTR, cost)
Align communications with marketing, product, and lifecycle campaigns
Work closely with Marketing, Prod and Ops for localization of messaging, creatives, and campaigns per market
Plan and track regional activations and partnerships - including but not limited to strategic billboards, payment partnership campaigns, affiliate marketing etc
Measure ROI and performance across owned and partner channels
Onboard new communication channel partners, and manage existing Bulk SMS, email, and communication partners for cost optimization
What you'll bring
6+ years in growth, communications, or partnerships
Hands-on experience with messaging platforms and lifecycle marketing
Strong commercial and negotiation skills
Experience working across multiple regions and cultures
Comfortable to travel for local activations and market studies in existing and emerging markets for sporty
Data-driven and execution-focused
Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential
What's in it for you
Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
28 days paid annual leave
Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
Top of the line equipment
Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
If you're interested, we encourage you to apply! Every application is reviewed by a member of our team (AI is not used in our recruitment process), and we aim to respond within 48 hours.
Sporty Group is a remote-first technology company focused on software development and quality engineering. The company emphasizes sustainability and operates with a distributed team across multiple time zones, particularly in the EU region. Based on their job postings, Sporty builds scalable software solutions using modern tech stacks including Java, Python, microservices architecture, and cloud-native technologies on AWS and Kubernetes. The company values quality ownership across the engineering organization and invests in testing automation, CI/CD practices, and developer enablement.
