• Manage the company’s licensing efforts across gaming and prediction markets jurisdictions for entities, key persons, employees, and vendors, including new jurisdiction launches and ongoing license maintenance, with direct oversight of employee licensing and vendor licensing programs at scale. • Lead licensing strategy and execution for launches of new products and new jurisdictions, including jurisdictional analysis, application strategy, timelines, and regulator engagement in support of market entry. Review regulations regularly and ensure team members are up to date on requirements. • Hire, train, and manage licensing and compliance professionals responsible for employee licensing, vendor licensing, and jurisdictional licensing operations, and oversee ongoing vendor suitability, licensing status, and regulatory compliance, to improve automation, tracking, audit readiness, and data integrity. • Identify and onboard third-party technology providers, regulatory vendors, and outside counsel to improve automation, tracking, audit readiness, and data integrity, and to increase internal efficiencies. • Design, implement, and scale licensing-related components of the company’s compliance program. • Serve as the primary point of contact with state gaming regulators, federal regulators (as applicable), and self-regulatory organizations, including the National Futures Association (NFA); manage regulator inquiries, examinations, investigations, and information requests. • Advise cross-functional stakeholders (including Legal, Product, Operations, HR, Finance, and Technology) on licensing implications related to product launches, corporate changes, and organizational growth. • Oversee teams handling high-volume employee licensing and vendor management workflows. • Act as a licensing subject-matter expert in support of strategic initiatives and executive decision-making, contributing to the development of a leading digital gaming and prediction markets platform. • Must be open to occasional travel to Fanatics Betting & Gaming offices and other locations for conferences, events, meetings, and team building activities