Sports Head of Sales

YBVR brings emotions closer to the sport fans. YBVR is a Silicon Valley based technology company building the next generation of live immersive video XR experiences, unleashing the potential of immersive sports disruption by providing a quality of experience as never seen before.

As the leader of Immersive Sports, YBVR enjoys a long-term partnership with Meta and is driving the next steps of the XR evolution in a competitive XR platforms scenario, with Apple Vision Pro and the emerging proposition of Android XR by Google.

YBVR HQ’s are based at the Silicon Valley, with R&D Center based in Madrid and business teams in US and Europe.

YBVR is an exciting environment, always in construction, re-invented every day by the most dynamic and sometimes crazy team of very solid professionals who are transforming an industry out of our passion for the immersive video streaming technology evolution.

YBVR has a solid track record in Immersive Sports since 2017.

We are looking for a Sports Head of Sales

Sports Head of Sales is a global position in charge of the Sales of the YBVR Sports Business Unit.

The preferred location for this position is Europe (preferably Madrid, Barcelona or London). You will report into the VP of Sports – At this stage YBVR CEO, who is based in US, is acting as VP of Sports.

Sports Head of Sales is responsible for growing YBVR business with Leagues, Federations, Teams / Clubs and other sport organizations as well as with broadcasters and XR Platforms.

• Re-define and evolve the YBVR value proposition and offering for Sports target customers:
• Leagues
• Federations
• Teams / Clubs
• Sport Brands
• Tournaments
• Broadcasters such as FOX, ESPN, TNT, NBC, DAZN, Eurosport, Amazon, Netflix, etc.
• Ensure sales into the target customers according to YBVR plan.
• Build Account Management practices with existing YBVR customers to ensure customer satisfaction and business growth.
• Define ‘Strategic Accounts’ and work in a long-term mode with them until we get the right engagement: e.g. Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, NBA, NHL, Grand Slam, DAZN, ESPN, NBC, TNT / Eurosport, Google, Apple, Meta, etc.

Required Experience

It is required a solid successful track record in:

• Sport Business
• Football (soccer) experience and networking.
• Networking into USA / UK Sport Business.
• Advertising / Sponsorship dynamics expertise in Sports.
• Experience related to Sports Innovation and XR emerging techs.

We are looking for self-driven doers who make things happen.

We are looking for professionals with a dynamic attitude, energy, and ambition, a healthy mix of being a risk-taker with passion for the challenge, as well as grounded to the reality by ensuring a solid operation, ready to learn on the job.

Ask yourself if you:

• Are a team player (a must)
• Results orientation, make things happen.
• Have passion for what you do and vibrate when you have a nice challenge in front of you.
• Are comfortable working in an ever-changing type of environment.
• Have strong personal and business ethics.
• Have analytic thinking and intuition.
• Enjoy self-discipline, organization, methodology, and self-management.
• Dominate the English language.
• Have a passion for Sports, Sport tech, and its impact on our society.
• Are happy to travel.

Interested candidates, upload your CV here. Please prepare references, we will do several reference calls.