Underdog Fantasy is hiring a
NBA Lead

Summary

The job is for a role in a fast-growing sports gaming company called Underdog. The role involves monitoring real-time feeds for injury news, lineup information, and practice reports, reacting to news, producing comprehensive blurbs, maintaining accurate admin resources, partnering with Sports Information Managers on strategic decisions, reporting and planning team coverage weekly, leading team meetings, setting agendas, developing the editorial plan and strategy, and assisting the team with various tasks as needed. The candidate should have 4+ years of experience covering the NBA, be self-motivated, quick learner with attention to detail, passionate about breaking news, willingness to work nights and weekends around the sports calendar, possess extensive NBA knowledge, ability to process large amount of information at once in a timely manner. Preferred qualifications include experience as a Team Lead and experience with TweetDeck.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience covering the NBA
• Experience running a news account
• A self-motivated individual who is a quick learner with an attention to detail
• Passionate about breaking news
• Willingness to work nights and weekends around the sports calendar
• Possess extensive NBA knowledge
• Ability to process large amount of information at once in a timely manner

Responsibilities

• Monitor real-time feed for injury news, lineup information, and practice reports
• React to news in a timely manner to power the Underdog Twitter feeds (@Underdog__NBA and @Underdog_WNBA)
• Produce comprehensive blurbs with actionable takeaways for each news item
• Ensure our admin resources are accurate and up-to-date
• Partner with Sports Information Managers on strategic decisions
• Reporting and planning team coverage weekly
• Leading team meetings, setting agendas, developing the editorial plan and strategy
• Assist the team with various tasks as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a Team Lead
• Experience with TweetDeck

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO (we're extremely flexible with the exception of the first few weeks before & into the NBA season)
• 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• A $500 home office allowance
• A connected virtual first culture with a highly engaged distributed workforce
• 5% 401k match, FSA, company-paid health, dental, vision plan options for employees and dependents