Senior Officiating Manager – SAOT
Genius Sports
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇲🇽 Mexico
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Senior
About the role
- Lead the integration of SAOT into La Liga MX match operations, ensuring alignment with league protocols, refereeing workflows, and VAR processes.
- Oversee live match-day operations to ensure consistent system performance and effective decision-making support.
- Act as the primary operational escalation point for SAOT-related issues and incident management.
- Ensure operational readiness across venues, match rounds, and officiating teams.
- Enforce quality assurance standards and governance protocols across all SAOT systems and processes.
- Maintain, review, and continuously improve standard operating procedures (SOPs) and best practices.
- Lead post-match and post-season reviews to identify trends, risks, and improvement actions.
- Ensure compliance with league regulations, competition protocols, and data protection standards relating to athlete and match data.
- Work closely with Liga MX, FMF, refereeing committees, and competition officials to ensure SAOT supports referees effectively and consistently.
- Support referee education, briefings, and confidence-building around SAOT workflows and decision-making.
- Act as a trusted liaison between officiating stakeholders and Genius Sports internal teams.
- Support sensitive communications relating to operational performance, incidents, or change.
- Lead and develop SAOT operational managers, operators, and technical staff.
- Foster a high-performance culture aligned with elite officiating standards.
- Monitor operational KPIs and performance indicators, providing structured reporting.
- Support training and professional development to ensure teams remain current with technology, processes, and the Laws of the Game.
- Serve as the operational interface between Officiating, Product, and Engineering teams.
- Ensure live-operations feedback from La Liga MX is captured and reflected in product improvements and system evolution.
- Support testing, upgrades, and controlled changes in live and pre-live environments.
Requirements
- Fluent in Spanish and English
- Proven experience working in elite football officiating or officiating operations, ideally within professional or international competitions.
- Strong understanding of Law 11 (Offside) and how technology supports decision-making within VAR or comparable officiating systems.
- Demonstrated experience operating in high-pressure, broadcast-critical sporting environments, requiring calm, accurate real-time judgment.
- Strong leadership capability, with experience managing teams and complex operations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Strong operational mindset with a focus on consistency, quality, and continuous improvement.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with technical, product, and engineering teams.
- Willingness to travel internationally and work flexibly around match schedules.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Flexible working hours
- Professional development budget
- Home office setup allowance
- Global team events
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
SAOT integrationmatch operationsincident managementquality assurancestandard operating proceduresKPI monitoringVAR processesdata protection standardsreferee educationtechnology support
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationstakeholder managementcollaborationcalm under pressureoperational mindsetcontinuous improvementteam managementdecision-makingflexibility