Remote Football Officiating Operator

Summary

The job is for an Operator role at Second Spectrum, a sports data and tech company that works with major leagues and media partners. The role involves ensuring the operational success of technology during matchdays and requires extreme attentiveness, knowledge of football refereeing terms, proactive communication, tolerance for repetitive tasks, and experience with time-critical judgment calls. Additional requirements are availability to work evenings, weekends, and holidays, and flexibility including early mornings and late evenings.

Requirements

• Extreme attentiveness
• Background working with football refereeing terms or ideally, as a referee
• Knowledge and experience with definitional football terms
• Proactively communicative
• A strong tolerance for repetitive tasks
• Prior experience making time-critical judgment calls regarding live data processing, and engineering support
• Enforce self-accountability and the performance of a large team

Responsibilities

• Work with the operations team according to the flow of live play and the system
• Master and have complete command over the entire system and processes
• Analyze live tracks, validate markings, and provide QA as necessary for all system events
• Be available to work on Second Spectrum game operations duties such as tracking and data delivery

Preferred Qualifications

• Must be able and available to work evenings, weekends and holidays
• Must possess flexibility, including early morning and late evenings

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual leave allowance
• Health insurance
• Skills training
• Social events throughout the year such as summer and winter holiday parties, monthly team building events, sports tournaments, charity days and wellbeing activities