Separate investment in analytical products from investment in selling and supporting them. Both matter to a buyer, but neither should be treated as proof that a promised capability is already available.
| Organisation and role | Evidenced responsibility | Published compensation | Buyer-side interpretation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Teamworks — Data Scientist II, Soccer | Develop and validate recruitment models using event and tracking data; maintain deployed models; explain limitations to clubs. The advert attributes the hire partly to growing partner demand. | US figure $145,000, with bonus and equity listed separately; not a published salary band. | Employer-hosted listing found. Test model quality and validation evidence; treat the demand statement as the employer’s claim. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| Teamworks — Product Manager II, Soccer | Own Player ID strategy, product delivery, adoption and packaging; integrate established capabilities into the wider platform; work directly with club users. | US figure $161,000, with bonus and equity listed separately; not a published salary band. | Employer-hosted listing found. Ask what is available now, what is migrating and what remains planned. (jobs.ashbyhq.com) |
| SkillCorner — Customer Solutions Manager, North America | Onboarding, analysis, API integration, training and adoption support; collaborate on renewals and expansion. Advert explicitly includes NWSL, USL and NCAA accounts. | Not disclosed on the employer-hosted advert. | Application route visible. Ask for named implementation support and deliverables in the proposal. (welcometothejungle.com) |
| SkillCorner — North America Regional Director | Lead regional sales, partnerships, contracting and account management across soccer, basketball and American football, with additional market ambitions. | Not disclosed. | Application route visible. Commercial expansion intent is not a soccer-only demand measure. (welcometothejungle.com) |
| MLS league office — Senior Manager, Soccer Analytics & Data Science | Lead sporting analysis, evaluate roster and competition initiatives, contribute to sporting-data governance and assess technologies and vendors. Requires seven-plus years’ analytical experience. | $100,000–$125,000 starting annual base salary. | Employer application page visible. Relevant to league-level evaluation and governance; not a club recruitment-department salary benchmark. (careers-mlssoccer.icims.com) |
What should clubs ask when suppliers hire customer-solutions staff?
Ask for the service specification, not assurances that support exists. SkillCorner’s role combines technical adoption with renewal and account-expansion responsibilities. That is useful context for setting expectations, but it does not establish how much support any particular contract includes. (welcometothejungle.com)
Recommended questions:
- Who owns onboarding, and who covers absence or escalation?
- Which integrations are included in the quoted fee?
- Will support work on the club’s real recruitment question during the trial?
- What response times and training sessions are committed?
- Which adoption measures will be shared with the club?
- Can commercial expansion proposals be separated from the technical review?
What should clubs ask when suppliers hire model developers?
Ask for validation on the intended use case. Teamworks’ specification explicitly discusses avoiding data leakage, evaluating temporal or grouped data appropriately, quantifying uncertainty and checking performance across player populations and contexts. These are responsibilities being sought—not proof that every existing model passes those tests. (jobs.ashbyhq.com)
For role fit, league translation and AI scouting accuracy, request documented evaluation boundaries, missing-data handling and evidence behind individual recommendations. Do not turn the presence of an AI or data-science hire into a product-quality score.
Sources cited on this page
- jobs.ashbyhq.comjobs.ashbyhq.com
- jobs.ashbyhq.comjobs.ashbyhq.com
- welcometothejungle.comwww.welcometothejungle.com
- welcometothejungle.comwww.welcometothejungle.com
- careers-mlssoccer.icims.comcareers-mlssoccer.icims.com