Work in Sports Newsletter vol 49

Psyonix Featured Job, Milwaukee Bucks Company Profile, Top/New Pro jobs of the week and Our New Segment: Baller Careers Tip of the Week.

April 12, 2022

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Overview

In the last week, we’ve added over 80 new jobs to our job board with more being added each day! This week we debuted a new collaboration with Baller Careers. Check out the Career Tip of the Week below. This edition’s featured job is a ESports Project Manager role with Psyonix, and we break down The Milwaukee Bucks from a hiring perspective. Top & New jobs this week come from The Chicago Bulls, TikTok, YouTube, New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Miami Heat, NBA, Twitch, Charlotte Hornets, BSE Global and more!

Weekly Jobs Recap

Top Jobs viewed last week on Openly Jobs

Top NEW jobs on Openly Jobs

Top Categories on Openly Jobs

Baller Careers Tip of the Week

Looking to land your next job in sports or trying to break into the industry? We’ve teamed up with Baller Careers Founder Adrienne Bueno to bring you the BEST tips/resources to land your dream job!

Tip #1- Clarify Your Personal Brand BEFORE You Apply For Jobs

In today's sports job market employers will make assumptions of who you are (in ~6 seconds) based on how you’re presenting yourself online. Before you start applying to jobs and sending connection requests, review if your LinkedIn profile, resume, and cover letter are tailored to the specific roles and job functions you’re interested in. When you make these changes, you’ll start beating the ATS because your application is optimized and you’ll stop getting ghosted when you message hiring managers because they’ll understand what value you’d bring to their organization.

  • Want more? Check out all the free resources and tools Baller Careers has to offer below that’s helped business professionals land sports job offers at companies including ESPN, NBA, LA Rams, Octagon, and TikTok.

Organization Hiring Profile

Organization: Milwaukee Bucks Industry: Spectator Sports - National Basketball Association Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin# of Openings: 40# of Employees: 570Category of open roles: Design, IT, Operations, Production, Retail, Sales, TicketingFeatured Job: Sr. Analyst of Fan Engagement - Apply Below

Featured Job of the Week

ESports Project Manager

Organization: Psyonix

Location: San Diego, CA

Overview: Psyonix is seeking an Esports Project Manager to work on Rocket League and future projects. Psyonix would like you to support the team execute their initiatives and own the Esports Production roadmap. Our production culture is one of facilitation, organizing, and creating clarity in a rapid and agile development environment. Our ideal candidate must be self motivated and collaborative.

  • Work closely with the Esports team to translate their goals into actionable delivery plans.

  • Help create and own schedules, manage tasks, regularly share team status to stakeholders, coordinate reviews, and resolve obstacles.

  • Ensure all teams are delivering at a high quality level by key dates.

  • Manages most team meetings and ensures agendas are clear. Records meeting notes and translates them into a coherent list of action items.

  • Provide regular risk assessments to the team, identify bottlenecks before they happen, and manage scope or support accordingly. While providing mitigation recommendations and managing expectations.

  • Is an effective process owner for the team.

  • Builds and manages relationships with internal and external partners. Acting as a primary communication point between teams as needed.

  • Is a strong internal advocate for our Esports initiatives. Is able to make future initiatives known to other teams, building enthusiasm and collaboration.

  • Available for non-business hours due to global / weekend live event nature of the sport

Why we like it?

Psyonix’s marquee product is the wildly competitive Rocket League and this specific position is based in sunny San Diego, California. Do you need to hear more than that? Of course you do, so here are a couple more notables. As of March 2022, Rocket League was 32nd most popular game on Twitch. In the past 12 months, viewers have watched up to 26 million hours of Rocket League streams per month. The company has been a driving force in video games for nearly 20 years, producing notable titles such as Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Bulletstorm, Unreal Tournament III and Unreal Tournament 2004.

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