Jobs at Spotlight Sports Group

Generate actionable insights from complex customer, behavioral, lifecycle, and product data. Collaborate with product, commercial, CRM, content, and leadership teams to define analytical questions, test hypotheses, measure business impact, and support evidence-based decisions. Present clear data stories, challenge assumptions, promote data-driven decision-making, and automate recurring reporting and analysis.

Report on Irish horseracing and betting, delivering exclusive stories, investigations, analysis, explainers, columns, features, and racedays coverage. Build relationships with industry contacts, monitor news, pitch and execute story ideas, use racing data and performance analytics to identify trends, and produce audio-visual content for Racing Post platforms. The role also involves appearing on video shows as an Irish racing expert and collaborating with editorial teams under deadline pressure.

Create written and video journalism covering Irish horseracing across news, features, previews, reports, YouTube, and social platforms. Attend race meetings and events, appear on camera, edit short-form content, monitor racing and betting news, pitch new audience-growth formats, and collaborate with editorial, video, and audience teams. The role requires strong horseracing knowledge, storytelling ability, social-platform understanding, accuracy under pressure, and weekend availability.

Owns the Racing Post newsletter portfolio across racing and sports, including commissioning, writing, editing, production, quality, tone, and audience growth. Uses reader and performance data to shape editorial strategy, improve engagement and conversion, and launch or evolve newsletters. Partners with CRM, marketing, audience, data, and editorial teams on segmentation, testing, personalization, signup journeys, and technical improvements. Coaches newsroom contributors and supports the Premium Editor.

Own content performance analysis for Racing Post, turning audience and subscription data into actionable editorial and subscription-growth decisions. Build user-level engagement and cohort analyses, design and test hypotheses, develop self-serve reporting, automate insights with AI, safeguard metric quality, and coach editors to use data to inform content and retention strategy.

Own and optimise the end-to-end subscription conversion experience for Racing Post. Lead paywall strategy, registration and checkout flows, audience segmentation, pricing and experimentation using platforms like Zephr and Zuora. Collaborate across Product, Editorial, Subscriptions, Data and Engineering to improve conversion, revenue and LTV through data-driven testing, performance monitoring and cross-functional alignment.

Drive financial performance and strategy for subscription and broader commercial business. Build and maintain subscription models, monitor LTV/CAC/Churn/ARPU, produce forecasts, budgets and reforecasts, appraise investment opportunities, partner with growth teams, communicate insights to non-financial stakeholders, identify efficiencies, manage and develop a finance analyst, and support continuous improvement across Finance.