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Senior Football Writer
1 month ago
About the Role
The Athletic is seeking a senior football writer to join our team. As a key member of our editorial staff, you will be responsible for conceiving, reporting, and writing unique and revelatory stories about professional football tactics and analytics.
Responsibilities
- Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm, advance, and analyze national news.
- Produce high-quality, in-depth articles on a regular basis, including at least two 1,000-word pieces per week.
- Take readers behind the scenes to uncover critical details and explain what really happened around key decisions and major issues.
- Deliver authoritative, must-read stories that drive the national conversation in football.
- Be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
- Ability to deliver high-level, in-the-moment stories when news dictates.
- Contribute to multiple platforms, including podcasts, social media, headlines, and short-form content.
- Clean, skilled writing in long, medium, and short-form formats.
- Tell rich, ambitious features through deep reporting and access to get beyond superficial storylines.
- Balance mid- and long-term projects while delivering stories and news analysis.
- Utilize a creative approach to story ideation and formats.
- Understand the sport's advanced metrics and how to apply them to written work.
- Connect with the audience constructively by interacting with our comments sections.
- Use internal metrics to provide what subscribers desire.
Analysis Skills
- Take a key role in generating meaningful insights and metrics using statistical techniques.
- Conduct thorough data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and key insights using a variety of different football datasets.
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to translate complex data into actionable insights through impactful data visualization.
- Communicate data insights effectively in written or audio format to different audiences.
Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of relevant experience.
- You will create ambitious, unique features that utilize advanced metrics and use your highly-regarded position in the online tactics & data community. Your articles should almost always be featured in our Top Nine selection of the daily articles. You should work effectively with colleagues and communicate effectively with them and with editors. You will meet deadlines set by editors.
- Experience in the fundamentals of data analysis and data visualization.
- Experience in utilizing data to drive insights related to football-specific questions.
- Experience with football-specific datasets.
- Proficiency in statistical programming languages, preferably R and/or Python, for data analysis and data viz production.
- Demonstrable experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Deep and comprehensive knowledge of the league's players and playing styles.
- Demonstrated ability to react quickly and authoritatively to league news and developments.
Perks and Benefits
The Athletic offers unique perks and benefits to all full-time employees based on their country of residence. Our comprehensive benefits package includes highly competitive, employer-contributed medical, dental, vision, basic life, and disability insurance plans, as well as savings accounts for medical, wellness, and childcare expenses, a 401(k) retirement savings plan with employer match, paid time off, and up to 20 weeks of paid parental leave. For international candidates, our global benefits packages offer similar benefits and perks, competitive to the local market.
