Senior Director, Digital Innovation

Major League Baseball seeks a Senior Director, Digital Innovation to lead MLB’s data products portfolio with an additional focus on casual gaming. This role will define and execute a clear long-term vision, in a way that grows the portfolio’s awareness and effectiveness among core demographics while identifying new partner and revenue opportunities. The position will provide key insights and recommendations relating to MLB’s industry-leading stats platform, Baseball Savant. 

Responsibilities

• Create roadmaps for Baseball Savant as an entity
• Innovate new products to grow target audiences
• Manage and oversee the preexisting slate of products currently available on Baseball Savant
• Work with the Product organization to create and execute on Baseball Savant-based KPIs
• Manage vendor relationships
• Help develop and expand Baseball Savant and MLB’s gaming portfolio
• Ideate visualizations for new metrics with the Content team, and suggest improvements for existing sections of the site
• Collaborate with a team of extraordinary engineers and technologists
• Work alongside top data scientists on data analysis
• Experience in both front-end and back-end work, taking advanced data and making it accessible, entertaining, inviting, and usable, through the use of data visualization
• Up-to-date knowledge on current baseball trends with the ability to provide insights on how MLB can utilize data and data visualizations to access a younger demographic
• Providing a clear, long-term vision for the Baseball Savant product
• Helping to create an efficient product cadence for Baseball Savant that is closer aligned with other Major League Baseball departments
• Working with the Baseball Savant team by assisting current engineers to improve the site’s reliability and experience
• Helping to innovate new products across the content and gaming departments with the purpose of growing our target audiences
• Assisting with engineering tasks to maintain upkeep of MLB’s casual gaming lineup

Qualifications & Skills

• Twelve (12) or more years of directly relevant professional experience
• Extensive experience delivering full stack software solutions using JavaScript (NodeJS/Express, React, D3, three.js)
• Intermediate experience with SQL (Postgres and BigQuery preferably) and HTML/CSS
• Deployment pipeline through Kubernetes/Github
• Experience with cloud-based solutions (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, etc.) and developer tools and workflows (Git, GitHub, code reviews, etc.)
• A love for and/or experience working with baseball data

Salary Range: $170,000 - $225,000 (Base Salary) + Bonus

As a candidate for this position, your salary and related aspects of compensation will be contingent upon your work experience, education, skills, and any other factors MLB considers relevant to the hiring decision. In addition to your salary, MLB believes in providing a competitive compensation and benefits package for its employees.

Top MLB Perks & Benefits:

• 100% Employer Paid Medical/Dental/Vision Premiums
• Company Contributed 401K Plan
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• Paid Parental Leave
• Access to Free Tickets to Baseball Games & MLB.TV
• Discounts at MLB Store | MLBShop.com
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
• Onsite/Online Training & Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance
• Pet Insurance

Why MLB?

Major League Baseball (MLB) is the most historic of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada. Employees love working at MLB because of the culture of growth, teamwork, and professionalism. Employees who are most successful at MLB take initiative, know how to identify problems and provide solutions, and always put the Team first. For those ready to step up to the plate and join the major leagues, MLB takes the same approach as teams do with their players: empowering our “workforce athletes” to be at their best by engineering experiences that put employees in the best position to succeed. Major League Baseball is looking for candidates who are passionate about growing America’s pastime to best serve its fans for decades to come.

MLB is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.  We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

Colorado Residents: Colorado based applicants may redact or remove age-identifying information such as age, date of birth, or dates of school attendance or graduation. You will not be penalized for redacting or removing this information.

Are you ready to Step Up to the Plate? Apply below!