Key Responsibilities
- Lead the discovery, onboarding, and integration of Flag Football data sources into the central data platform.
- Coordinate data acquisition efforts across clubs, international markets, leagues, federations, vendors, registration providers, and other third-party partners.
- Manage the Flag Football data roadmap, priorities, milestones, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
- Translate business needs into data requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and monitoring needs.
- Establish and maintain standardized data definitions, collection methodologies, schemas, and reporting frameworks.
- Partner with engineering, architecture, analytics, governance, privacy, and business teams to move data sources from discovery through production.
- Support source onboarding through data profiling, validation, testing, quality assessment, and issue resolution.
- Develop and maintain a comprehensive inventory of Flag Football data sources and integration opportunities.
- Coordinate recurring program updates, executive reporting, and cross-functional working sessions.
- Support the development of global participation measurement methodologies and reporting.
- Help establish participant-level data models, identity management approaches, and consent-aware data practices.
- Enable analytical capabilities that connect participation data to fan engagement, retention, and fandom outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in data product management, data strategy, analytics, business analysis, or a related field.
- Experience leading complex data integration or data platform initiatives from planning through implementation.
- Strong understanding of data pipelines, APIs, file-based integrations, ETL/ELT processes, data modeling, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional programs involving both technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience gathering requirements, defining business processes, and translating needs into technical solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience using SQL and data analysis techniques.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with sports, participation, registration, membership, fan, consumer, or youth-related data.
- Experience coordinating with external vendors, international organizations, or decentralized business partners.
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, privacy requirements, consent management, and data quality practices.
- Experience with participant identity resolution, customer data platforms, or master data management initiatives.
- Experience developing KPI frameworks, dashboards, executive reporting, and self-service analytics solutions.
- Knowledge of research methodologies, survey-based measurement, and longitudinal analytics.
- Experience working with AWS, Snowflake, GCP, or similar modern data platforms.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in data product management, data strategy, analytics, business analysis, or a related field.
- Experience leading complex data integration or data platform initiatives from planning through implementation.
- Strong understanding of data pipelines, APIs, file-based integrations, ETL/ELT processes, data modeling, and cloud-based data platforms.
- Experience managing cross-functional programs involving technical and business stakeholders.
- Experience gathering requirements, defining business processes, and translating needs into technical solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including SQL and data analysis techniques.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with sports, participation, registration, membership, fan, consumer, or youth-related data.
- Experience coordinating with external vendors, international organizations, or decentralized business partners.
- Familiarity with data governance, metadata management, privacy requirements, consent management, and data quality practices.
- Experience with participant identity resolution, customer data platforms, or master data management initiatives.
- Experience developing KPI frameworks, dashboards, executive reporting, and self-service analytics solutions.
- Knowledge of research methodologies, survey-based measurement, and longitudinal analytics.
- Experience with AWS, Snowflake, GCP, or similar modern data platforms.
What We Do
Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character. Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments. At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations. Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale. Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact. We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition. At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward. For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.
