Common questions about SportsCareers

SportsCareers is a job board that aggregates open roles from across the sports industry. It pulls live listings from 150+ teams and organizations across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS, and major sports betting companies into one searchable platform, updated daily.

Read more about why we built it on the About page.

Yes. SportsCareers is free to browse with no signup required. You can optionally create a free account to save jobs, track applications, and subscribe to a daily email digest.

Job listings refresh continuously throughout the day. New postings typically appear within minutes of being published on the hiring organization's official career page. Closed or filled roles are removed automatically.

Every major North American professional league: all 30 MLB teams, all 32 NFL teams, all 30 NBA teams, all 32 NHL teams, and all 30 MLS teams, plus the MLB, NFL, and NBA league offices.

We also index roles at major sports betting and prediction market companies including DraftKings, FanDuel, BetMGM, Fanatics, Underdog Fantasy, PrizePicks, Kalshi, and Polymarket.

SportsCareers does not host applications directly. Every Apply button on a job listing redirects to the hiring organization's official application page on their own career site or applicant tracking system. You apply directly through the employer.

Yes. With a free account, you can save jobs, mark roles as applied, and maintain a personal application tracker. Your saved and applied lists persist across sessions and devices when you sign in.

Create a free account and enable the daily email digest from your profile settings. You can choose which leagues you want included, and you'll receive an email each morning summarizing new roles posted in the last 24 hours.

Yes. SportsCareers includes full-time, part-time, internship, and fellowship roles from every covered organization. You can filter by job type to see only the roles relevant to your career stage.

SportsCareers automatically aggregates jobs from existing applicant tracking systems used by sports organizations. We do not currently accept manual job submissions. If your organization is not represented and you'd like to be added, contact us at info@sports-careers.com.

SportsCareers stores only the minimum data needed to provide the service: your email address if you sign up, your saved jobs, your applied jobs, and basic usage analytics. We never sell or share personal data with third parties.

Full details are available in our Privacy Policy.

Every job function in the sports industry is represented: baseball operations, analytics, data science, marketing, sales, ticket operations, broadcasting, communications, finance, legal, software engineering, product management, design, partnerships, fan engagement, and more.

You can filter by department to narrow your search.

We make every effort to keep listings current by syncing directly with each organization's applicant tracking system multiple times per day. Roles are removed automatically when they're closed or filled by the employer.

Occasionally a small delay may occur — when in doubt, check the apply link to verify the role is still accepting applications.

Become a subject-matter expert in something teams actually need — analytics, software engineering, sales, partnership activation, finance, or operations — and apply broadly across multiple organizations rather than holding out for a dream team. Most successful sports industry careers start with an entry-level role at a smaller-market team or an adjacent role at a sports betting or media company, then transition.

The biggest mistake first-time applicants make is treating "I love sports" as a qualification — every applicant loves sports. What gets you an interview is what you can specifically do, paired with evidence (a portfolio, measurable results, references) that you've done it before.

Our strategy guide for breaking into sports covers this in depth, and the networking guide walks through how to build the relationships that actually unlock roles.

Sports teams post jobs on their own career pages, which run on a fragmented mix of applicant tracking systems — Workday, Teamwork Online, iCIMS, Paylocity, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Paycom, ADP Workforce Now, and others. There is no single industry-wide job board run by the leagues.

This fragmentation across 11+ ATS platforms is why most candidates miss roles: monitoring 150+ separate career portals is a full-time job in itself. SportsCareers aggregates listings from every major team across every ATS into one searchable platform, refreshed throughout the day. Read more on how it works.

For most front-office and corporate roles, yes — but the degree often matters less than what you've done with it. Operations, analytics, software, finance, and legal roles typically require a bachelor's degree minimum, with quantitative roles increasingly preferring statistics, computer science, or sports analytics programs. Sales, marketing, and community-facing roles are more flexible; relevant work experience or measurable results can substitute.

Internships and fellowships at sports organizations are the most reliable path for new grads regardless of degree. Scouting, coaching, and player development roles are the exception — playing or coaching background often matters more than formal education.

By volume, the largest job categories across major North American pro sports organizations are: ticket sales and premium sales, marketing and brand, partnership activation, community relations, communications and media relations, finance and accounting, baseball/basketball/football/hockey/soccer operations, analytics and data science, software engineering, fan engagement, and game-day operations.

Sales is the highest-volume entry point — most teams hire dozens of sales associates annually. Analytics, scouting, and player development are smaller departments with intense competition. Most front-office roles fall somewhere between those two extremes.

At any given moment, SportsCareers indexes 1,800+ open roles across 150+ sports organizations. Volume fluctuates seasonally — hiring tends to spike in the spring (pre-season build-up across MLB, MLS, and NFL front offices) and again in the fall (NHL and NBA pre-season).

Sports betting and prediction-market companies tend to hire continuously rather than seasonally. The total number of front-office positions across major North American pro sports is in the tens of thousands, but only a fraction is open and actively accepting applications at any one time. Browse the current job board to see what's live now.

Skill requirements vary dramatically by function. Analytics roles need SQL, Python or R, and increasingly machine learning. Operations roles emphasize project management, vendor management, and clear written communication. Sales roles reward consistency, resilience, and short feedback loops on outreach. Software engineering uses the same stacks as any tech company. Marketing roles need fluency in the platforms (Meta, TikTok, YouTube) and the league content ecosystem.

Across every function, the cross-cutting skills that get you hired are: a portfolio of concrete work, clear written communication, and demonstrated specific knowledge of the team and league — not generic enthusiasm for sports. Our resume tips and interview prep guides go deeper on how to demonstrate this.

Yes — most people working in sports started outside the industry. The most common entry paths from outside are: sales roles (which weigh sales experience over sports background), software engineering and product roles (which transfer cleanly from any tech company), analytics roles (which transfer from finance, consulting, or other data-heavy industries), and operations roles (especially for candidates with experience at events, venues, or hospitality). Marketing and brand roles transfer well from agencies or D2C brands.

The hardest transitions are scouting, player development, and coaching — those generally require playing or coaching backgrounds.

Sports teams use a fragmented mix of applicant tracking systems with no industry standard. The most common platforms across MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLS teams are Workday (most large enterprise teams), Teamwork Online (legacy sports-industry-specific platform, common across MLB and NFL), iCIMS, Paylocity, Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Paycom, ADP Workforce Now, BambooHR, and SmartRecruiters.

League offices typically run on Workday. Sports betting companies skew toward Greenhouse, Lever, and Ashby. This fragmentation across 11+ ATS platforms is why a single job seeker needs an aggregator to see every open role.

Sports industry compensation varies widely by function and level, and is generally below comparable corporate roles at entry level. Entry-level operations and marketing roles at most teams start in the $40,000–$55,000 range. Mid-level (manager / senior associate) roles run $70,000–$110,000. Director-level $120,000–$180,000; VP $180,000–$300,000+.

Analytics, software engineering, and product roles pay closer to tech-industry rates, especially at sports betting companies (DraftKings, FanDuel, etc.) where total compensation can match Big Tech. Sales roles are commission-heavy: entry-level base of $35,000–$45,000 with on-target earnings of $55,000–$80,000. Salaries skew higher in major markets (NY, LA, Chicago) than smaller markets.

The full sports industry salary guide breaks this out by department.

Sports analytics hiring favors candidates who can show concrete work, not credentials alone. The most effective path: build a public portfolio of analyses on real publicly-available data — MLB Statcast, NBA Stats API, NFL Next Gen Stats public exports, FBref / Opta-derived datasets for soccer. Use Python or R, version-controlled on GitHub, and publish writeups.

Pair this with a quantitative degree (statistics, applied math, economics, sports analytics, computer science) and at least one technical internship. Conferences like the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference and league-run analytics programs (such as MLB's Diversity Pipeline) are useful entry points.

The largest entry-level categories are ticket sales associates, inside sales representatives, marketing coordinators, brand and content coordinators, partnership coordinators, communications coordinators, finance analysts, fan-services representatives, game-day operations staff, internship roles across most departments, and formal fellowship programs. Many teams run structured sales academies (e.g. Aspire Sports Marketing, individual MLB team development programs).

Software engineering and analytics rarely have true entry-level openings at smaller-market teams — they are more accessible at sports betting companies, at large-market teams (Yankees, Lakers, Cowboys, etc.), and at league offices. The glossary defines each of these departments in more detail.