The Athletic

Producer

• Collaborate with the hosts on all elements of show creative.
• Assist the entire production process from pre-production planning to final delivery.
• Manage scheduling, coordination, and logistics to ensure smooth episode execution.
• Edit episode video and mix audio to produce high-quality content, and publish episodes to our distribution platforms.
• Ensure consistency in style and sound quality across all segments.
• Conduct thorough research to identify compelling topics and trends relevant to our audience, and key stats for our on-air talent.
• Help to develop innovative segments and series that add value and drive listener engagement.
• Collaborate with the R&B team to ensure content is engaging and on-brand.
• Contribute to episode rundowns that outline segment order, timing, and content flow.
• Identify potential video clips for distribution on YouTube and other social channels.
• Provide direction and feedback to external social media editors (when applicable).
• Work closely with the show’s hosts/producers to develop social first content.
• Manage community building through Discord, YouTube, and other social channels.
• Coordinate with hosts, guests, and team members to gather content and feedback.
• Manage deadlines and provide regular updates on production progress.

Senior Producer

Data Scientist

• Design, build, and implement mathematical models to drive key long-term product goals, like training a model that predicts which of our free users are most likely to subscribe, or recommending the right articles to the right users at the right time.
• Lead projects with hands-on analysis and modeling, drawing from multiple analytical methods to choose the right tool and right level of complexity appropriate for the job.
• Use quantitative analysis to deeply understand what our users are saying, and to develop recommendations based on that analysis.
• Design and develop data science pipelines in production.
• Guide complex experiments.
• Cultivate an outstanding data science environment.

Machine Learning Engineer

• Design, build, and maintain machine learning model productionization infrastructure. These models will drive very visible product features at The Athletic, and your infrastructure is key to their success.
• Work with the rest of the data science team to streamline model training, validation, and deployment.
• Implement robust monitoring and alerting for model performance, drift, and data quality, ensuring our models remain accurate in production.
• Cultivate an outstanding data science environment by championing best practices in ML Ops and evaluating and integrating new technologies into our data science stack.

Senior Machine Learning Operations Engineer

Chief of Staff

• Partner with team leads on newsroom planning, outlining priority newsroom projects and working across editorial, product, and tech teams to manage resourcing.
• Help shape the Executive Editor’s agenda based on the most important work across the Newsroom.
• Facilitate cohesive communication and collaboration across the Newsroom leadership team and with leadership stakeholders, ensuring unified direction and effective decision-making.
• Manage calendars, including coordinating meetings with participants, resolving conflicts, and generally managing the Executive Editor’s daily schedule.
• Prepare drafts of general correspondence, department communications, reports and presentations.
• Arrange travel, manage expense report processing and administer department credit card.
• Coordinate staff and personal communication for the Executive Editor, including initial drafts of notes, developing presentations and responding to requests in a timely manner.
• Help coordinate guests and focus for Inside The Athletic episodes.
• Coordinate closely with Operations and other teams, especially those who plan staff summits and other major initiatives.

Product Manager

• Own a Cohesive Strategy and Roadmap Across a Portfolio of Product Areas
• Drive Impact Across Your Teams
• Be a Leader of Your Domain and the Product Org at Large
• Improve Organizational Operations

Staff Product Manager

Content Writer

• Excellent news sense, along with ability to build relationships with sources that ultimately lead to authoritative reporting, which allows us to break news and write revelatory stories.
• Ability to tell rich, ambitious features through deep reporting and access that takes readers beyond the superficial storylines.
• A sharp, analytical mind able to analyze a situation and add perspective.
• Attention to detail; must be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
• Ability to work on a number of projects at the same time, balancing long-term projects with the need to deliver stories on a regular basis.
• Ability to write quick news stories and provide analysis for a variety of platforms, including live journalism.
• Ability and willingness to shoot video on location as part of event coverage and important stories.
• Appear on The Athletic’s shows and series network to offer analysis and insight around biggest stories on your beat.
• Creative and innovative approach to story ideation and video formats.
• Unique and strong voice both in print and video that can stand out from competitors.
• Must have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and share information.
• Desire to connect with the audience by interacting with our readers.
• Interest in internal metrics that can help understand what subscribers desire.

Writer, EDM Oilers

Journalist

• Ability to deliver high-level, in-the-moment stories when news dictates.
• Be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
• Clean, skilled writing in all formats.
• Balance short- and long-term projects.
• Utilize a creative approach to story ideation and formats.
• Generate executable story and project ideas.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues.

Reporter, Rapid Investigation

• Excellent news sense, along with ability to build relationships with sources that ultimately lead to authoritative reporting, which allows us to break news and write revelatory stories.
• Ability to tell rich, ambitious, features through deep reporting and access that takes readers beyond the superficial storylines.
• Attention to detail; must be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
• A deep understanding of audience needs and a desire to constantly satisfy those needs.
• A sharp, analytical mind able to analyze a situation and add perspective.
• Ability to work on a number of projects at the same time, balancing long-term projects with the need to deliver stories on a regular basis.
• Ability to write quick news stories and provide analysis for a variety of platforms, including live journalism.
• Creative and innovative approach to story ideation and formats.
• Unique and strong voice that can stand out from competitors.
• Must have the ability to work collaboratively with colleagues and share information.
• Interest in internal metrics that can help educate what subscribers desire.

Writer

Customer Success Manager

• Lead the end-to-end execution of programs that build relationships with our readers, develop habitual engagement, and drive subscription starts across email, push, and in-app channels.
• Implement new opportunities for automation and personalization through journey building, audience segmentation, and testing roadmaps.
• Experiment with AI-forward workflows and ESP-specific automation to make campaign builds faster, smarter, and more efficient.
• Assist in managing overall email list health and protecting domain reputation/deliverability across all email efforts.
• Drive continuous improvement of business and team channel-specific KPIs, maintaining a clear project process plan and documenting best practices.
• Communicate proactively and clearly with business leaders and stakeholders about execution, and performance tracking to plan.
• Partner with Design to audit and ensure existing emails are optimized as well as build new and innovative templates for campaigns & workflows.
• Collaborate with Analytics, Product, Marketing, Design, Data Science and Engineering on email and push execution and testing as well as new omni-channel technical integrations.

CRM Marketing Manager

• Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm and advance national news.
• React quickly and eagerly in the moment to advance and elevate trending stories in the sport by providing additional reporting as well as commentary and analysis.
• Generate creative, high-level stories about the growing and complex business of women’s basketball.
• Contribute on multiple platforms, including podcasts, video and social media.
• Write with clarity and consistently deliver clean, skilled stories, both on deadline and on features and enterprise.
• Understand the sports’ advanced metrics and how to apply them to our coverage.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues as part of a beat team, as well as others throughout our large newsroom in numerous departments.
• Maintain productivity while balancing long- and short-term stories with an aim of having a lively mix of reporting expected of a top journalist covering the sport.
• Ability and willingness to shoot video on location as part of event coverage and important stories.
• Appear on The Athletic’s shows and series network to offer analysis and insight around biggest stories on your beat.

Writer, Women's Basketball

Director

• The Senior Director, UK Series is responsible for the creative leadership, audience growth, and commercial performance of The Athletic’s UK-based series portfolio.
• Ensure these brands consistently exceed audience expectations, especially around tentpole moments.
• Lead The Athletic’s UK production team, partner closely with UK newsroom leadership, and collaborate with external production companies.
• Work cross-functionally with operations, sales, marketing, product, and finance to set strategy, unlock revenue, and manage resources.

Senior Director, UK Series

Account Manager

• Manage the day to day relationships with The Athletic’s sports league partners.
• Own operational execution of league partnerships, with a focus on video, highlights, and emerging content formats.
• Build trusted, long-term partnership relationships through clear communication, strategic planning, and proactive problem-solving.
• Lead regular partner check-ins, performance reviews, and recaps.
• Translate league agreements and content rights into clear internal guidelines for video, editorial, social, and product teams.
• Partner closely with Legal to ensure compliance with league rules, usage rights, approvals, embargoes, and attribution requirements.
• Internally advocate for league partners to ensure contractual obligations and brand standards are met.
• Monitor and evaluate partnership success against agreed KPIs.
• Develop strong partner relationships, through effectively communicating complex ideas and strategies, leading meetings, crafting partner correspondence, driving campaign production and evaluating partnership success.
• Identify process improvements to scale partnership operations efficiently.
• Collaborate with the broader Business Development team, Strategy and Planning teams to identify new opportunities to expand league partnerships and unlock incremental revenue.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between internal cross-functional teams including legal, finance, product, editorial, design and marketing to ensure all deliverables are on message, on track, and within scope.
• Build and maintain project delivery trackers and create proof of delivery documents/recaps.