Jobs at Major League Soccer, L.L.C.

Supports MLS/SUM’s Brand Alliances team by developing sponsorship presentations, sales decks, customized pitches, and commercially focused narratives. Collaborates with internal stakeholders to gather insights, tailor materials to prospective partners, and maintain accuracy and consistency. Manages multiple presentation projects under tight deadlines while applying knowledge of sports sponsorship, audience data, and market opportunities. The role also supports the sponsorship sales process and requires strong organization, communication, attention to detail, and Microsoft Office proficiency.

Manages partnership marketing accounts and sponsorship activation programs for MLS and related properties. Serves as the primary partner contact, provides strategic counsel, oversees contractual assets, budgets, media strategies, creative approvals, CRM records, and renewal support. Develops new sponsorship opportunities, leads cross-functional projects, presents to stakeholders, and manages direct reports, performance processes, and team development.

Analyzes compensation and workforce data, conducts market pricing and survey activities, supports salary structures and Total Rewards programs, and develops recommendations for compensation decisions. The role also creates dashboards and executive insights, supports benefits and wellness analytics, maintains data accuracy, assists with audits and compliance, and partners with HR, Finance, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders on projects and recurring processes.

Leads MLS’s creator ecosystem and influencer marketing strategy, including creator partnerships, campaigns, talent relationships, scalable onboarding and approval frameworks, KPI measurement, audience growth, and budget management. The role collaborates across departments to support digital content, social platforms, live events, and season-long storytelling while driving engagement, conversion, brand lift, and revenue.

Leads full-cycle recruiting across league office functions, advises leaders on hiring strategy, manages senior searches, improves recruiting operations and ATS infrastructure, analyzes recruiting data, builds diverse talent pipelines, and enhances candidate experience. The role also supports inclusive culture initiatives, compliance, executive searches, and talent acquisition technology projects.

Leads high-impact creative initiatives from intake through delivery, managing timelines, approvals, stakeholders, production partners, and cross-functional collaboration. Oversees scalable creative workflows across campaigns and channels, supports production-ready deliverables using Adobe Creative Suite, and improves intake, prioritization, and delivery processes through Asana, emerging tools, and AI-enabled technologies. Ensures brand consistency, quality, and efficient execution across marketing, digital, social, email, web, OOH, and print initiatives.

Supports MLS sporting affairs through player transactions, roster and salary-budget management, compliance administration, transaction-agreement tracking, allocation-money reconciliation, investigations, dispute resolution, league-rule administration, stakeholder coordination, and event execution. The role also assists with financial reporting and requires strong organizational, research, writing, communication, and confidentiality skills, plus flexibility for non-traditional hours.

Leads soccer analytics and data science workstreams supporting MLS competition, player relations, medical, and sporting decisions. Uses soccer, roster, tracking, financial, and performance data with statistical, AI, and machine learning methods. Evaluates roster rules, competition changes, player pathways, and sports science trends; develops KPIs, models, reporting, and recommendations for senior stakeholders. Also guides sporting data governance, technology evaluations, vendor use, and cross-functional analytics priorities.

Leads employee engagement, culture, belonging, Employee Resource Group strategy, and internal communications. Develops engagement programs, manages company-wide events and leadership forums, oversees employee communication channels, supports inclusive practices, and measures program impact. Partners with HR, talent teams, leaders, and ERG sponsors to strengthen employee experience, retention, and organizational alignment.

Coordinates MLS player engagement events, virtual and in-person programs, stakeholder outreach, media logistics, website and database updates, and administrative operations. Builds trusted relationships with players and club personnel while managing confidential information, multiple priorities, deadlines, and non-traditional work hours. The role requires strong organization, communication, judgment, Microsoft Office proficiency, and flexibility to travel.

Coordinates live matchday operations for MLS regular season, playoff, and marquee events. Manages Matchday Control issues and escalations, applies league policies, analyzes operational risks and trends, coordinates Clubs, venues, vendors, and internal stakeholders, and supports process improvements. Oversees event workstreams, documentation, vendor agreements, payments, budgets, inventories, reports, and executive presentations. Requires evening, weekend, holiday, and occasional travel availability.

Design and scale semantic data and AI infrastructure, including embedding pipelines, knowledge graphs, ontologies, vector and hybrid retrieval, RAG systems, and LLM-powered applications. Build production-grade APIs and data pipelines, optimize private GPU inference, establish evaluation and reliability frameworks, and ensure explainability, attribution, and safe outputs. Collaborate across product, analytics, data engineering, and ML teams while mentoring engineers and translating business needs into grounded AI systems.

Leads Major League Soccer’s Marketing Science function, overseeing teams and external resources while developing marketing analytics strategy. Partners with Marketing, CRM, Technology, Product, and Data Engineering teams to improve audience targeting, personalization, campaign measurement, media investment, and fan growth. Oversees predictive modeling, AI and machine learning applications, media mix modeling, experimentation, attribution, and CRM activation. Communicates analytical insights and strategic recommendations to executive stakeholders across League and Club organizations.

Leads MLS’s sports betting and prediction-market operations, including gaming-company relationships, integrity monitoring, club-wide compliance, authorized operator programs, and commercial partnerships. Manages the Polymarket sponsorship and MLS Data relationships with Sportec and Sportradar, while driving partner service, revenue growth, reporting, training, and audit frameworks. Requires deep sports betting, prediction-market, sports-data, regulatory, compliance, and commercial partnership expertise.

Leads the strategy, governance, roadmap, implementation, and optimization of HR technology systems, including Workday HCM and applicant tracking platforms. Partners with HR leadership to gather requirements, improve processes, manage integrations and vendors, develop analytics, and drive platform adoption. Evaluates AI, automation, generative AI, and emerging technologies for HR operations while ensuring security, privacy, governance, and business alignment.

Leads enterprise content planning and operations for MLS, aligning editorial, social, creator, production, marketing, communications, product, and commercial teams around a unified roadmap. Responsibilities include strategic planning, portfolio governance, content calendars, budget and resource management, KPI frameworks, performance insights, stakeholder alignment, and executive support. The role requires senior content strategy or operations experience, strong project management, executive communication, and willingness to travel and work nontraditional hours.

Manages partnership marketing accounts and sponsorship activations for MLS and related properties. Oversees client relationships, contractual assets, budgets, creative approvals, media strategies, CRM data, renewal support, and new sponsorship opportunities. Leads internal workstreams, presents to stakeholders, manages direct reports, and supports cross-departmental projects.