WORK OPTION: Remote

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This is a temporary position with an expected duration not to exceed (10) months. 

Position Summary:

In this role on the NBA’s Content Strategy & Analytics team, you will help power the league’s social and digital analytics ecosystem by managing the tagging, organization, and integrity of NBA content metadata. You will oversee the end‑to‑end social content tagging process that fuels dashboards used across the organization, including by senior leadership, ensuring that every piece of content is accurately classified and aligned to an evolving taxonomy of players, teams, franchises, and initiatives. You will maintain and enhance the data infrastructure behind our content reporting—monitoring API connections, managing manual data workflows where needed, and developing schedules to close data gaps across platforms. Working closely with data engineers, analysts, and the content publishing team, you will strengthen the league’s ability to measure performance, uncover insights, and support strategic decision‑making. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong attention to detail, a passion for basketball, and an eagerness to gain foundation analytics and content experience in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative environment.

Major Responsibilities:

• Own social content tagging process that powers content dashboards shared company-wide, including executive leadership

• Monitor and update content taxonomy as needed to include new content franchises, players, and initiatives in tagging process

• Develop and maintain data tracking schedule to fill data gaps across platforms

• Monitor data and API connections in Fivetran and communicate errors and findings to database solutions team

• Maintain manual data entry and export/upload process for platforms with API gaps

• Collaborate on data management projects (e.g. data standardization projects, data mapping)

• Collaborate with content strategy team to determine data gaps and opportunities

Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes:

• Familiarity with NBA basketball, including knowledge of players, teams, plays, and storylines, required

• Intermediate experience working with Microsoft Excel

• Detail oriented data background and exemplary analytical skills

• Knowledge of social media and digital data a plus

• Ability to work within demanding timeframes in a dynamic environment

• High attention to detail, design, and innovation

• Passion for data and eagerness to learn new analytics tools and languages

Required Education:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or relevant equivalent experience

Salary Range:

$2307.69 /Biweekly

Job Posting Title:

Project

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical; short-term disability; mental health coaching/therapy; and sick time.

Eligibility Note: Not all positions are eligible for these benefits; eligibility may vary by role.

We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.

The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.

About the NBA

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.