Senior Director, Digital Innovation

• 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

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.

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