About

• Support the Football Technology & Data department with football data projects, mainly the collection and delivery of football data at FIFA tournaments.
• Coordinate FIFA’s Football Data ecosystem, organising and leading the various meetings and communications channels with football data providers, consumers and other stakeholders.
• Manage football data collection projects aimed at delivering data in FIFA tournaments and maintain the project requirements and delivery plans on Azure DevOps.
• Draft high-level delivery reports on the advancement of projects, risks and decisions.
• Maintain the Football Data Catalog describing the football data offering (pdf and altan).
• Support existing and new stakeholders in their own implementations of football data projects.
• Collaborate with Football Data Operations to organise relevant testing sessions and validate implementations before tournament delivery.
• Facilitate collaboration within the Football Data team, documenting meetings and centralising resources.
• Support tournament operations when required, including monitoring live and post-match football data delivery and troubleshooting any issue that arises.

• 3-5 years of experience in as project manager or product manager in technology or data projects, ideally in the sports industry
• Experience in the football industry is an advantage
• Fluent in English
• Proficiency in any other FIFA language (French, Spanish, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian) is an advantage
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office products (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, TEAMS, Planner)
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tool
• Experience with Snowflake or Powerbi is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree or similar higher education in business administration or project management
• Strong cooperative and communication skills
• Excellent redactional skills
• Rigorous, collaborative, and innovation-driven
• Good understanding of the football game as a football consumer (TV viewer, sports digital platforms, in-stadium experience)
• Fondness for data and technology in sports
• Availability to work up to 20 days per month
• Working hours on Western European time, and readiness to work outside standard business hours (e.g. evenings, weekends), typically to monitor football matches
• Readiness to work almost exclusively remotely
• Compensation based on a day rate