Jobs at Major League Soccer, L.L.C.

Analyzes compensation and workforce data; supports salary structures, market pricing, incentives, benefits, wellness, recognition, and compensation planning. Develops dashboards, reports, models, and recommendations for HR and business decisions. Partners cross-functionally on program administration, budgeting, audits, compliance, data quality, and process improvement while protecting sensitive employee information.

Leads MLS’s creator ecosystem and influencer marketing strategy, including creator partnerships, campaigns, talent relationships, scalable onboarding and approval frameworks, KPI measurement, audience growth, and budget management. The role collaborates across departments to support digital content, social platforms, live events, and season-long storytelling while driving engagement, conversion, brand lift, and revenue.

Leads full-cycle recruiting across league office functions, advises leaders on hiring strategy, manages senior searches, improves recruiting operations and ATS infrastructure, analyzes recruiting data, builds diverse talent pipelines, and enhances candidate experience. The role also supports inclusive culture initiatives, compliance, executive searches, and talent acquisition technology projects.

Leads high-impact creative initiatives from intake through delivery, managing timelines, approvals, stakeholders, production partners, and cross-functional collaboration. Oversees scalable creative workflows across campaigns and channels, supports production-ready deliverables using Adobe Creative Suite, and improves intake, prioritization, and delivery processes through Asana, emerging tools, and AI-enabled technologies. Ensures brand consistency, quality, and efficient execution across marketing, digital, social, email, web, OOH, and print initiatives.

Supports MLS sporting affairs through player transactions, roster and salary-budget management, compliance administration, transaction-agreement tracking, allocation-money reconciliation, investigations, dispute resolution, league-rule administration, stakeholder coordination, and event execution. The role also assists with financial reporting and requires strong organizational, research, writing, communication, and confidentiality skills, plus flexibility for non-traditional hours.

Manages match presentation operations for MLS matches and major events, coordinating Clubs, league stakeholders, vendors, contractors, talent, consultants, and temporary staff. Oversees policies, matchday communications, issue resolution, ceremonies, live entertainment, field production, and event logistics. Contributes creative direction, budget tracking, vendor management, documentation, training resources, post-event reviews, and real-time execution of pre-match, halftime, and post-match programming.

Leads soccer analytics and data science workstreams supporting MLS competition, player relations, medical, and sporting decisions. Uses soccer, roster, tracking, financial, and performance data with statistical, AI, and machine learning methods. Evaluates roster rules, competition changes, player pathways, and sports science trends; develops KPIs, models, reporting, and recommendations for senior stakeholders. Also guides sporting data governance, technology evaluations, vendor use, and cross-functional analytics priorities.

Leads employee engagement, culture, belonging, Employee Resource Group strategy, and internal communications. Develops engagement programs, manages company-wide events and leadership forums, oversees employee communication channels, supports inclusive practices, and measures program impact. Partners with HR, talent teams, leaders, and ERG sponsors to strengthen employee experience, retention, and organizational alignment.

Coordinates MLS player engagement events, virtual and in-person programs, stakeholder outreach, media logistics, website and database updates, and administrative operations. Builds trusted relationships with players and club personnel while managing confidential information, multiple priorities, deadlines, and non-traditional work hours. The role requires strong organization, communication, judgment, Microsoft Office proficiency, and flexibility to travel.

Manage and create motion graphics, headshots, static images, and broadcast design packages for MLS broadcasts. Serve as the primary designer for match broadcasts and studio shows, collaborate with MLS partners and staff, support matchday graphics operations, and assist with virtual studio art direction. The role requires high-end 2D and 3D motion design expertise, strong communication, attention to detail, and flexibility for evenings, weekends, holidays, and travel.

Coordinates live matchday operations for MLS regular season, playoff, and marquee events. Manages Matchday Control issues and escalations, applies league policies, analyzes operational risks and trends, coordinates Clubs, venues, vendors, and internal stakeholders, and supports process improvements. Oversees event workstreams, documentation, vendor agreements, payments, budgets, inventories, reports, and executive presentations. Requires evening, weekend, holiday, and occasional travel availability.

Leads sponsorship measurement reporting, valuation analysis, consumer research, and insights development for MLS and SUM commercial partners. Supports sponsorship sales and renewals through package valuations, pricing recommendations, performance materials, and fan insights. Manages syndicated research tools, custom studies, third-party vendors, and measurement agencies. Presents findings to senior stakeholders, tracks sponsorship KPIs, monitors industry trends, and contributes to analytical processes and commercial research initiatives.

Design and scale semantic data and AI infrastructure, including embedding pipelines, knowledge graphs, ontologies, vector and hybrid retrieval, RAG systems, and LLM-powered applications. Build production-grade APIs and data pipelines, optimize private GPU inference, establish evaluation and reliability frameworks, and ensure explainability, attribution, and safe outputs. Collaborate across product, analytics, data engineering, and ML teams while mentoring engineers and translating business needs into grounded AI systems.

Leads Major League Soccer’s community engagement strategy and execution across 30 clubs, managing outreach initiatives, charitable partnerships, events, campaigns, digital platforms, marketing assets, budgets, and partner relationships. Oversees cross-functional alignment, program delivery, employee performance, and team development while strengthening MLS brand visibility, fan engagement, and community impact across the United States and Canada.

Leads Major League Soccer’s Marketing Science function, overseeing teams and external resources while developing marketing analytics strategy. Partners with Marketing, CRM, Technology, Product, and Data Engineering teams to improve audience targeting, personalization, campaign measurement, media investment, and fan growth. Oversees predictive modeling, AI and machine learning applications, media mix modeling, experimentation, attribution, and CRM activation. Communicates analytical insights and strategic recommendations to executive stakeholders across League and Club organizations.

Manages licensing operations, licensee and partner communications, product approvals, brand compliance, royalty reporting, invoicing coordination, business reporting, and cross-functional consumer products initiatives. Supports seasonal planning, event activations, marketing programs, and leadership updates while maintaining licensing calendars, contracts, product assets, and performance dashboards. The role requires approximately 10–20% travel and occasional evenings, weekends, and holidays.

Directs broadcast media operations for MLS and SUM events, overseeing matchday monitoring, incident response, stakeholder communications, production partners, and operational workflows. Leads planning and execution for major events including MLS Cup, All-Star Game, and Leagues Cup. Develops command structures, improves processes, coordinates rights-holder integrations, and represents MLS Media in committees and industry events. The role requires in-office work four days weekly, flexible matchday hours, and occasional travel.

Leads MLS’s sports betting and prediction-market operations, including gaming-company relationships, integrity monitoring, club-wide compliance, authorized operator programs, and commercial partnerships. Manages the Polymarket sponsorship and MLS Data relationships with Sportec and Sportradar, while driving partner service, revenue growth, reporting, training, and audit frameworks. Requires deep sports betting, prediction-market, sports-data, regulatory, compliance, and commercial partnership expertise.

Manages partnership marketing accounts and sponsorship activation programs for MLS and related properties. Serves as the primary partner contact, provides strategic counsel, oversees contractual assets, budgets, creative approvals, media strategies, CRM updates, and renewal support. Leads cross-functional workstreams, develops sponsorship opportunities, presents to stakeholders, and manages direct reports and performance processes. The role requires partnership marketing experience, client service expertise, strong communication, organization, and flexibility for travel and nontraditional hours.

Manage and support media production technology, including media asset management platforms, IPTV systems, ingest and delivery workflows, cloud technologies, live production platforms, transmission infrastructure, and recording systems. Responsibilities include metadata and workflow management, documentation, hardware distribution, infrastructure troubleshooting, matchday content capture, and media asset delivery. The role requires collaboration, technical problem-solving, nontraditional work hours, and occasional event travel.