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Senior Writer
Skills
AnalyticsBusiness InsightsContent StrategyData AnalyticsData ScienceData VisualizationDatasets
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Minimum 8+ years of experience
- Create ambitious, unique features that utilize advanced metrics
- Highly regarded in tactics & data community
- Articles almost always in Top Nine selection of daily articles
- Work effectively and communicate with colleagues and editors
- Meet deadlines set by editors
- Experience in data analysis and data visualization
- Utilize data to drive insights related to football questions
- Experience with football specific datasets
- Proficiency in R and/or Python for data analysis and visualization
- Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Comprehensive knowledge of league's players and playing styles
- React quickly and authoritatively to league news and developments
Day to day
- Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm, advance and analyze national news
- At least two 1k word articles a week plus help on live pieces/data requests/collaborative projects as required
- Take readers behind-the-scenes to unearth 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
- Deliver high-level, in-the-moment stories when news dictates
- Contribute on multiple platforms including podcasts, social media, headlines and short form
- 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 comments sections
- Use internal metrics to provide what subscribers desire
- 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