Own the ingestion, QA, and maintenance of RSS feeds, APIs, and external sources to ensure relevant, accurate, and timely sports news flows into the app
Partner with video ingestion providers to manage highlight and clip pipelines, ensuring high-quality, rights-approved video content lands in the right streams
Ensure ingestion of scores and stats working properly across leagues and teams
Select, evaluate, and integrate new external content sources (sites, tweets, league feeds, blogs) to broaden fan engagement
Partner with Product to send B/R content to external partners like Apple News
Collaborate with data science/AI teams to design and refine recommendation models and ranking algorithms
Define business rules to balance algorithmic personalization with editorial priorities
Monitor algorithm output and ensure the right content mix is reaching the right fans at the right time
Manage and optimize automated push alerts based on personalized rules
Partner with programming and sports leads to shape the narrative of feeds and ensure feeds update in real-time during live events
Create workflows for combining automated feeds + human judgment for optimal fan experience
Collaborate with Analytics to track performance metrics and run experiments (A/B tests) to optimize feed engagement
Partner with product managers to evaluate and integrate new automation tools or personalization features
Requirements
5+ years of experience in sports media, programming, or content operations
Hands-on familiarity with RSS feeds, APIs, CMS tools, and content ingestion systems
Strong analytical skills and experience working with data-driven personalization
Bonus: SQL, Looker, Tableau
Understanding of recommendation systems, personalization algorithms, or ML models (collaborative role, not building models directly)
Comfortable working at the intersection of programming, product, data science, and engineering
Passionate about sports and how fans consume content across formats
Benefits
health insurance coverage
an employee wellness program
life and disability insurance
a retirement savings plan
paid holidays and sick time and vacation
annual bonuses, short- and long-term incentives, and program-specific awards
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