Job Description
Main Responsibilities:
- To track/confirm software tracking of dead-balls, stoppage time, and other similar events.
- To correctly identify and confirm teams, lineups, and players, as well as tracking markings on players.
- To show attentiveness during live ball situations.
- Participate in post-game meetings to provide feedback to Operators and Operations Managers to identify problems.
- To be able to complete marking tasks that will improve the accuracy and design of our system.
- To lead a group of Operators to run and monitor all tasks on 1-2 football games per shift.
- To lead trainings on newly signed ops.
Requirements:
- Experience in being responsible for or training others, and reporting, would be highly desirable
- Proficiency in Google and Microsoft suites, particularly Excel/Google Sheets
- High attention to detail with the ability to focus in loud, distracting environments.
- Extremely punctual, many shifts will start near the game start time
- Excellent communication skills, especially under pressure, to effectively update Operations Managers and provide feedback to Operators.
- Ability to make time-sensitive judgment calls and collaborate with remote colleagues during live events.
- Adaptable, proactive, and confident, with strong team spirit.
- Self-accountable for discretion considering the delicate nature of the business content.
Additionally, Match Leads will:
- Commit to 15-30 hours of availability each week.
- Be able to work according to the football schedule which includes holidays, holiday periods, evenings, and weekends.
- Each shift will last up to 6 hours, up to 30 hours per week which can be early mornings or late nights
How we work
We have adapted a forward-thinking ‘Ways of Working’ framework, which sets out (amongst other things) the opportunities for Geniuses to work flexibly, remotely and on working holidays. It affects different teams and locations differently, so please ask for further information in how it would work with this role.
Our employees are empowered to stretch the boundaries of what’s achievable, always reaching further and pushing the edges to see what gives. We collaborate, we innovate, and we celebrate. We will continue to grow as an organisation and continue to invest in our highly talented and diverse team of Geniuses.
Second Spectrum, part of Genius Sports Group, is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We recognize and celebrate the benefits that a diverse and inclusive workforce bring to our business, our customers and our staff. We welcome and will consider all applications regardless of age, different abilities or disability, gender re-assignment, marriage, pregnancy, maternity, race or nationality, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation (and any other applicable status). Please let us know when you apply if you need any assistance during the recruiting process due to a disability.
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What We Do
Genius Sports is the layer between what happens on the field and how the world engages with it. Our solutions across the global sports ecosystem are underpinned by our next generation big data and artificial intelligence platform, GeniusIQ. By ingesting and computing multiple real-time data feeds, GeniusIQ powers a wide range of functions and applications across sports performance and officiation, fan engagement, advertising, and sports betting. Founded in 2001, Genius Sports is now one of the world’s largest sports technology companies, working with the likes of the NFL, NBA, EPL, FIBA, ESPN, Sky Sports, Flutter, DraftKings and 100s more. We're headquartered in New York and London, with offices in Los Angeles, Medellin, Tallinn, Sofia, Singapore, Lausanne, Manchester and Melbourne.
Why Work With Us
We are one team, being brave, driving change. Our company values help create a cohesive culture, where we think, feel and act like One Genius. We strive to create an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging and the ability to make a difference, driving our vision to be everywhere in sports, redefining experiences through technology.
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