Director of Strategic Insights

Join GameChanger, a leading youth sports platform, as the Director of Strategic Insights. In this role, you will build and lead the Strategic Insights function, providing market, customer, and competitive intelligence to shape company-wide decisions. You will partner closely with executive leadership to tackle high-priority strategic questions and establish frameworks for strategic decision-making. This position is based in New York City and offers unlimited vacation, remote work options, health insurance, a 401K plan, and other perks.

• Establish and lead GameChanger’s Strategic Insights function, creating scalable processes, frameworks, and operating rhythms that support strategic decision-making across the company.
• Build a comprehensive understanding of the youth sports ecosystem by synthesizing customer insights, competitive intelligence, market trends, internal business data, and external research.
• Translate complex research, market dynamics, and business data into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders, and develop executive-ready presentations and narratives.
• Demonstrated experience building or leading strategic insights, market intelligence, competitive intelligence, or research capabilities within a growing organization
• 10+ years of experience in strategic insights, market intelligence, corporate strategy, competitive intelligence, management consulting, consumer insights, or a related field
• Exceptional communication and executive storytelling skills, with experience presenting complex information to senior leaders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience synthesizing information from multiple sources to develop clear points of view
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and build trusted relationships across Product, Marketing, Strategy, Engineering, Finance, and other business functions
• Naturally curious with a bias toward turning information into practical business recommendations
• Strong strategic thinker with the ability to connect customer behavior, competitive dynamics, market trends, and business performance into actionable recommendations
• Experience designing and leading qualitative and quantitative research, with sound judgment for selecting the right approach based on the business question
• Excited by the opportunity to build a new capability from the ground up and personally drive meaningful work rather than primarily managing large teams
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment
• Experience supporting executive leadership through strategic planning, growth initiatives, innovation, or corporate strategy
• Experience in consumer technology, SaaS, marketplaces, media, gaming, sports, or other consumer-facing businesses
• Familiarity with competitive intelligence platforms, syndicated research, market intelligence tools, AI-enabled research workflows, and data visualization tools
• Experience working in high-growth environments or helping scale new functions
• Passion for sports, technology, or products that create meaningful experiences for consumers