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Hiring signals

Read hiring evidence for what it reveals about recruitment responsibilities.

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3 Nov 2026Last updated
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Who is being asked to own the work?

Columbus NWSL 2028 — Director of Scouting

Not disclosed in the reviewed specification.

October 2026 campaign; originating page closed on review. Appointment not established. (analyticssportsjobs.com)

Build the scouting process, manage coverage and budget, combine live/video/data assessments, evaluate third-party sources and recommend technology or advisory services.

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Real Salt Lake — Director of Soccer Analytics

Not disclosed in the reviewed specification.

Recent recruitment specification; originating page closed on review. (teamworkonline.com)

Own recruitment analytics across the first team, Real Monarchs and academy; manage providers, integrations, player models and transfer-window reporting.

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Bay FC — Head of Data & Analytics

Anticipated salary starts at $140,000; no upper bound supplied.

Employer listing remains visible, but the official staff directory also names Lucca Motta in this role. Conflicting status: do not assume an additional unfilled position. (ats.rippling.com)

Coordinate sporting data strategy with Bay Collective; oversee data quality, infrastructure, adoption and recruitment analysis.

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North Carolina Courage — Director of Scouting

Not disclosed.

Confirmed appointment: Austin da Luz; club announcement dated 5 March 2026 identifies the position as newly created. (nccourage.com)

Lead domestic and international talent identification and evaluation.

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Nashville SC — Data Analyst

No salary disclosed.

Application page visible. Interpretation: delivery capacity across several sporting users, not exclusively player recruitment. (teamworkonline.com)

Answer sporting and recruitment questions; produce match reports; analyse event, tracking-derived and physical data; maintain reproducible Python workflows. Reports to Head of Analytics.

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Sporting Kansas City — Data Engineer

No employer salary verified.

Closed originating page; responsibilities preserved in a syndicated advert. Interpretation: integration and reliability investment, not proof of additional feed purchases. (sportsjobs.online)

Build and maintain pipelines, schemas, databases and APIs; combine external providers with club systems; support production deployment of models.

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Utah Royals — Technical Scout

No employer salary disclosed; the archive’s wage estimate is excluded.

Archive records 28 January–25 February 2026. Interpretation: demand for women’s-football assessment capacity and usable footage. (career.com)

Identify, assess and grade targets; maintain scouting reports; combine video, live observation and data. The advert allocates approximately 50% of the role to video scouting.

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San Diego FC — First Team Scout

$70,000–$85,000 a year, reported by Futboljobs; not reverified from the now-closed original advert.

Secondary advert dated 21 September 2026; originating page closed. Treat pay as a secondary-source comparator. (futboljobs.com)

Identify global professional and amateur talent using live/video observation, research, data and relationships within the Right to Dream context.

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NYCFC — First Team Performance Analyst

$70,000–$75,000 annual base salary, employer-stated.

Application page visible. This is predominantly performance and opposition analysis—not a dedicated player-acquisition role. (teamworkonline.com)

Record and organise footage, tag clips, maintain performance records, support opposition analysis and manage analysis technology. Requires four-plus years’ relevant experience.

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FC Cincinnati — Data Analyst Intern

Paid; rate not disclosed.

Application page visible for February–April 2027, averaging 15 hours a week. This is future, limited-duration capacity—not a full-time recruitment hire. (job-boards.greenhouse.io)

Support the Lead Data Scientist with match reports, opposition analysis and event/tracking-data projects.

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What it may signal · Interpretation

Explicit provider-management duties indicate an accountable evaluator is being established or replaced. They do not prove that the club has approved a new supplier, intends to cancel an incumbent or has increased its external intelligence allocation.

These examples are more useful for understanding buying requirements than for estimating market-wide hiring growth.

In this section

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What is the strongest hiring signal for scouting-intelligence buyers?

Look for responsibility for evaluating suppliers, integrating data and running recruitment decisions—not simply an analytics job title.

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How should this evidence be read?

This is a qualitative hiring-signal review, not a vacancy census, salary survey or forecast of club expenditure.

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03

Which club leadership roles reveal the clearest procurement responsibilities?

The strongest specifications combine player evaluation with responsibility for information sources, standards and departmental delivery.

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Which operational roles show where intelligence is actually needed?

Read the deliverables before categorising the role.

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What is distinctive about NWSL recruitment hiring?

The evidence supports women’s-football-specific assessment requirements, not a generic claim that every NWSL club is expanding analytics.

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What do supplier and league-office hires tell clubs?

Separate investment in analytical products from investment in selling and supporting them.

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What salary bands can buyers responsibly use?

Use the published figures as role-specific comparators, not as a market median.

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How can clubs translate a hiring signal into a useful supplier test?

Match the evaluation to the job’s bottleneck.

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Which apparent hiring signals should buyers discount?

Nashville’s Senior Manager, Business Strategy & Analytics advert concerns CRM, ticketing, attendance, marketing and commercial reporting.

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What should a sporting director do in the next 30 days?

Use hiring evidence to organise a purchasing decision—not to justify one.

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Sources

Employer-hosted recruitment pages are primary evidence for advertised responsibilities and compensation, not independent validation of product claims.

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