Manager, New Ventures Operations

About GameChanger

We believe in the life-changing impact youth sports have on and off the field because they encourage leadership, teamwork, responsibility, and confidence—important life lessons that have the power to propel our youth toward meaningful futures. We recognize that without coaches, parents, and volunteers, organized youth sports could not exist. By building the first and best place to experience the youth sports moments important to our community, we are helping families elevate the next generation through youth sports. So if you love sports and their community-building potential, or building cool products is your sport, GameChanger is the team for you. We are a remote-first, dynamic tech company based in New York City, and we are solving some of the biggest challenges in youth sports today.

About the Role

We are looking for a Manager, New Venture Operations to help build and operationalize strategic corporate innovation within GameChanger. You will partner closely with the Head of New Ventures to translate strategy into structured execution, driving cross-functional coordination and operational rigor across Strategy, Product, Engineering, Go-To-Market, Finance, Legal, and CX. In the near term, you will support the Head of New Ventures — ensuring the right inputs, processes, and communication are in place to support decision-making and business growth. Over time, you will evolve into an independent operator managing workstreams and daily execution as opportunities scale into businesses. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments and can bring structure without slowing things down.

What You’ll Do

• Operationalize New Ventures Department: Build structure, processes, and operating rhythms that support new venture strategy and business growth. Lead cross-functional coordination across Strategy, Product, Engineering, GTM, Finance, Legal, and CX — ensuring alignment and momentum. Develop and maintain operational documentation (playbooks, FAQs, internal guides) that enable teams to move quickly and consistently.
• Drive Program and Project Execution: Lead planning and program management for key initiatives — including timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder accountability. Track deliverables across workstreams, identify blockers, and step in to unblock and ensure forward progress. Support the Head of New Ventures in decision-making by gathering inputs, synthesizing information, and ensuring clear follow-through on decisions. Drive communication and alignment by cascading context, decisions, and updates across teams to reduce silos and increase velocity.
• Establish Operating Rhythms: Help define and build reporting to track performance, operational health, and key business metrics. Contribute to and manage lightweight operating cadences — standups, status updates, trackers, documentation. Prepare materials for leadership reviews and ensure decisions are captured and actioned.

Who You Are

• 4–7+ years of experience in operations, project management, or similar hands-on roles within a fast-moving organization
• Demonstrated experience working across Strategy, Product, Engineering, CX, and Go-To-Market teams, with the ability to influence without direct authority
• Background in consumer tech, SaaS, or sports tech
• Track record of building structure from ambiguity — setting up workstreams, processes, and execution plans in new or undefined environments
• Comfortable operating as an individual contributor initially, with the interest and capability to take on people leadership as the business grows
• Data-oriented, with comfort working with metrics, reporting, and light analysis; experienced building structured datasets from unstructured sources
• Clear, organized written and verbal communicator — able to synthesize complexity and keep multiple teams aligned
• Experience in 0-1 startup or corporate innovation environments
• Experience with Notion or similar knowledge-management tools for process documentation and cross