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About this Sponsorships Account Manager role at World Surf League

World Surf League · São Paulo, Brazil

We are looking for a highly motivated Sponsorships Account Manager to join our team in São Paulo. This role is ideal for a commercially driven professional with a strong hunter mentality and a passion for sports, entertainment, and cultural properties. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying, developing, and closing new sponsorship partnerships, helping expand the league’s commercial footprint and brand ecosystem.

This is a strategic sales role focused on business development, requiring the ability to build consultative partnerships with leading brands and agencies. This is a full time role with the expectations of 5 days in the São Paulo office in Brazil. 

Key Responsibilities

  • Identify and prospect new sponsorship opportunities across sports, entertainment, and brand marketing sectors
  • Develop and maintain relationships with brand decision-makers, marketing leaders, and agencies
  • Lead the full sales cycle: prospecting, pitching, negotiating, and closing sponsorship agreements
  • Design and position consultative partnership proposals aligned with brands’ marketing and business objectives
  • Collaborate internally with marketing, events, and partnerships teams to craft compelling sponsorship packages
  • Maintain an active pipeline of qualified prospects and consistently deliver new partnership revenue
  • Represent the league in meetings, events, and industry forums when relevant

Qualifications & Experience

  • 5–7+ years of experience in sponsorship sales within sports, entertainment, media, or cultural properties
  • Proven track record in prospecting and closing partnership deals
  • Strong business development mindset with a hunter profile
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and negotiation skills
  • Ability to work independently and manage a sales pipeline with minimal supervision
  • Fluency in English is required

Profile

  • Commercially driven and results-oriented
  • Entrepreneurial and self-managed
  • Strong relationship builder with brands and agencies
  • Strategic thinker capable of crafting consultative partnership solutions

If you are passionate about building partnerships and helping brands connect with audiences through sports and culture, we would love to hear from you.

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About World Surf League

The World Surf League (WSL) is dedicated to celebrating the world's best surfing on the world's best waves through a variety of best-in-class audience platforms. The WSL has been championing the world's best surfing since 1976, running global events across the Men's and Women's Championship Tours, the Big Wave Tour, Qualifying Series, Junior and Longboard Championships. Headquartered in Santa Monica, the WSL is a truly global sports and media company with regional offices in Australia, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe. In 2016, WSL Holdings, the parent company of the World Surf League (WSL), acquired a majority stake in the Kelly Slater Wave Company (KSWC), an innovative wave technology company. KSWC is the first to develop a formula that combines cutting edge science, engineering and design to create the longest, open barrel, high-performance wave in existence. As envisioned by 11-time world champion Kelly Slater, KSWC was created to evolve the sport of surfing by making it more accessible.

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