u/sports_guy101011

I've been pulling the career portals of every team in the five major North American sports leagues.

Here's a snapshot of what I'm seeing right now:

Overall:

• 1,500 open positions across 100+ professional sports teams
• MLS leads in hiring right now with 400+ open roles
• NHL has the fewest at 240~

What they're hiring for:

• The most common role type across all leagues is Marketing/Sales roles
• Intern, part-time and junior roles make up a bigger chunk than you'd expect...roughly 33% of posted jobs don't require years of sports-specific experience

One thing that stands out: Most of these jobs will never show up on LinkedIn or Indeed. Teams post on their own career portals using whatever ATS platform they've set up and every team uses something different. If you're only checking one or two job boards, you're seeing maybe 20-30% of what's actually out there

A few things that surprised me:

• A lot of roles that sound sports-specific (like "Partnership Activation Coordinator") are really just marketing/event management jobs with a sports wrapper — the skills transfer from other industries more than people realize
• Betting, prediction markets, and gaming-adjacent roles have been growing fast across multiple leagues

I built a free site that pulls all of this into one searchable place if anyone wants to check it out. happy to drop the link. Otherwise feel free to ask questions about the data, I can look up specific leagues or teams.

I've been pulling the career portals of every team in the five major North American sports leagues.

Here's a snapshot of what I'm seeing right now:

Overall:

• 1,500 open positions across 100+ professional sports teams
• MLS leads in hiring right now with 400+ open roles
• NHL has the fewest at 240~

What they're hiring for:

• The most common role type across all leagues is Marketing/Sales roles
• Intern, part-time and junior roles make up a bigger chunk than you'd expect...roughly 33% of posted jobs don't require years of sports-specific experience

One thing that stands out: Most of these jobs will never show up on LinkedIn or Indeed. Teams post on their own career portals using whatever ATS platform they've set up and every team uses something different. If you're only checking one or two job boards, you're seeing maybe 20-30% of what's actually out there

A few things that surprised me:

• A lot of roles that sound sports-specific (like "Partnership Activation Coordinator") are really just marketing/event management jobs with a sports wrapper — the skills transfer from other industries more than people realize
• Betting, prediction markets, and gaming-adjacent roles have been growing fast across multiple leagues

I built a free site that pulls all of this into one searchable place if anyone wants to check it out. happy to drop the link. Otherwise feel free to ask questions about the data, I can look up specific leagues or teams.