Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Build and scale business intelligence as a service, delivering insights that create measurable value for clients
- Design, own, and evolve end-to-end data solutions across data engineering, analytics, and data science
- Develop and maintain dynamic dashboards using Fundraising, Ticketing, Marketing, and other complex data sources
- Lead client onboarding and act as a long-term analytics partner to participating organizations
- Ensure data accuracy and reliability through rigorous validation, monitoring, and root-cause analysis
- Create data models and structures that power trusted, scalable analytics
- Partner closely with Product, UI/UX, Customer Success, and fellow data engineers to deliver intuitive, high-impact solutions
- Proactively propose new analyses and help shape how insights are shared across clients and internal teams
Minimum Qualifications:
- 4+ years of work experience delivering business intelligence or analytics to stakeholders across teams or organizations
- Demonstrated experience in the ticketing/live events/sports space
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, AWS, or similar)
- Experience building dashboards and reports using modern data visualization tools (Tableau preferred)
- A curiosity-driven mindset—you ask “why,” connect patterns, and turn data into clear, compelling stories
- A passion for building analytics that are not only accurate, but genuinely useful and actionable
- Comfort giving and receiving feedback, and a willingness to stretch beyond your comfort zone
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Python or R for predictive, statistical, or categorical modeling
- Familiarity with live entertainment, college athletics, or fundraising data
- End-to-end data engineering experience (source → warehouse → visualization/export)
- Experience with ETL tools and modern data stack patterns
- Deep familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
- Exposure to AI-driven analytics use cases (e.g., forecasting, segmentation, anomaly detection, or AI-assisted insights), and interest in building data foundations that support future AI capabilities
Pay Transparency:
The approximate national base pay range for this position is $100,000 to $120,000. Please note that this is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Individuals may also be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus and/or sales compensation based on individual and company performance. Placement on the range may vary based on factors including but not limited to job-related knowledge, skills, and experience, and geographic location. The pay rate will comply with all minimum federal, state, and local wage/salary requirements.
Learfield offers a full spectrum of benefits for eligible employees including Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Life Insurance and Other Insurance Plans, Flexible Paid Time Off (minimum 10+ days annually), including Parental Leave, 20 Paid Holidays, 401(k) + Match, and Short/Long Term Disability. Leave benefits are consistent with state and local laws, including the Colorado Health Families and Workplaces Act.
Learfield is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race; color; sex; gender identity; sexual orientation; religious practices and observances; national origin; pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions; status as a protected veteran or spouse/family member of a protected veteran; or disability.
Skills Required
- 4+ years delivering business intelligence or analytics to stakeholders across teams or organizations
- Demonstrated experience in the ticketing, live events, or sports space
- Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, AWS, or similar)
- Experience building dashboards and reports using modern data visualization tools
- Tableau experience
- Curiosity-driven mindset; ability to connect patterns and tell data-driven stories
- Passion for building accurate, useful, and actionable analytics
- Comfort giving and receiving feedback and willingness to stretch beyond comfort zone
- Experience with Python or R for predictive, statistical, or categorical modeling
- Familiarity with live entertainment, college athletics, or fundraising data
- End-to-end data engineering experience (source -> warehouse -> visualization/export)
- Experience with ETL tools and modern data stack patterns
- Deep familiarity with Snowflake or similar cloud data platforms
- Exposure to AI-driven analytics use cases (forecasting, segmentation, anomaly detection, or AI-assisted insights)
What We Do
College sports is our business, and we love what we do. On game day and every day, our countless innovations connect brands to fans. LEARFIELD - a leading media and technology company in college athletics - is the number one provider of multimedia rights, licensing, ticketing, fan-targeted digital advertising, official athletic websites, original content programming, digital signage, social, ticketing, and development services, and more to our college partners and beyond. We love to help our university & brand partners achieve their goals. Career opportunities shared via LinkedIn and on our website include openings across the country in our corporate offices in Plano, TX (HQ); Atlanta, GA; Jefferson City, MO; New York, NY; Winston-Salem, NC and Irvine, CA. We also post openings available within our owned companies: ANC, CLC, Paciolan, SIDEARM Sports, MogoSME and LEARFIELD Amplify. When Fans Matter When Brands Matter When Experience Matters When Innovation Matters When Passion Matters








