Work in Sports Newsletter vol 15

Astros organization profile, a featured job from ESPN, and a job review for Opendorse!

June 15, 2021

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Overview

Another busy week in the world of hiring in sports biz, and in this edition, we’ve recapped top jobs from the Mavs, Blue Jackets, Hawks & UC Athletics. We also provide an overview of the Houston Astros from a hiring perspective and feature an Account Management role from ESPN. This week’s job review comes from a full-time marketing professional at Opendorse, and we have 5 new hiring announcements to share!

Weekly Jobs Recap

Top jobs viewed last week on Jobs.OpenlyHQ.com

Top NEW jobs on Jobs.OpenlyHQ.com

Organization Profile

Organization: Houston Astros

League: MLB

Location: Houston, TX

# of Openings: 72 (MLB + MiLB)

# of Employees: 666

Category of open roles: Operations/Events, Premium Sales, Group Sales, Season Ticket Sales, IT, Social Media, HR, Communications, Accounting/Finance, Content, Analytics

Featured Job: Manager, Business Communications- Apply below

Featured Job of the Week

Account Manager

Organization: ESPN

Website: https://www.ESPN.com/

Location: New York, NY

Overview: In this role, you will be partnered with one or more Account Executives who sell media space across Disney’s multitude of digital properties. The primary responsibilities for the Account Manager are to ensure proper campaign implementation, optimize campaigns and provide white-glove customer service to our top-tier customer accounts. The right person for this role obsesses over details, thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced collaborative environment, wants an opportunity to make a significant impact and jumps at the opportunity to take on new challenges.

Why we like it: This is a great role for someone while only needing 1 year of digital advertising and online media experinece to qualify! Even with a semi-low barrier to entry from a requirements standpoint, the role will support high profile and complex video/display ad campaigns for top-tier advertisers across all of Disney’s digital platforms. Althought it might only require 1+ year of experience, we are guessing this will be an extremely competitive position to land so if you’re interested, apply today with the link below!

Review of the Week- Opendorse

*Full-Time

*Marketing Professional

Category of Jobs

Job Categories on Jobs.OpenlyHQ.com

Recent Hiring News!

  • Bleacher Report hired Yash Bhika as a Social Media Content Programmer for their @BRFootball account

  • ESPN Digital hired Shelby Lacy as an Associate Producer for all livestream digital content

  • The Denver Broncos hired Megan Boyle as Communications strategist, working closely with the Broncos’ corporate & football PR outreach.

  • The Texas Rangers hired Cole Smith to be the new Art Director

  • NASCAR hired Megan Latimer to join the Digital Project Management team in Charlotte

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Summary

  • Over 30 NEW jobs in sports added this week from top teams, organizations & brands with hundreds more added each week!

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