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About the Role

This role is a unique opportunity to apply strategy, technology, data science, and innovation to athlete health, safety, and performance. The Director will drive strategies to decrease player injuries and enhance game safety, collaborating with the NFL Data & Analytics team on technology initiatives. The role operates at the intersection of data analytics, AI, healthcare research, technology product development, and executive decision-making, focusing on the NFL's Digital Athlete initiative.

Responsibilities

Lead the strategic vision, roadmap, and execution of the NFL’s Digital Athlete initiative and related innovation programs.
Identify emerging opportunities where technology, analytics, and scientific research can meaningfully improve player health outcomes.
Evaluate emerging technologies, vendors, research partnerships, and other opportunities across sports health, AI, healthcare, and performance science.
Help shape the League’s multi-year Player Health & Safety innovation agenda.
Maintain awareness of global advancements in sports science, healthcare analytics, injury prevention, and applied AI.
Serve as a central integrator across NFL departments (particularly Data & Analytics), engineering and epidemiology consulting teams, and AWS team leads to ensure alignment on strategy, integration, and delivery of tasks and milestones.
Align diverse stakeholder groups around strategic priorities, execution plans, and measurable outcomes.
Collaborate with vendors and external sources for software, equipment, and analytics research that are involved in injury reduction.
Oversee budget and resource allocation.
Translate complex analytics findings, research outcomes, and emerging technologies into practical recommendations and implementation plans.
Prepare and deliver strategic updates, recommendations, and executive-level presentations to senior NFL leadership.
Distill highly technical concepts into clear and compelling narratives for diverse stakeholder groups.
Liaise between the NFL League Office and NFL Clubs’ medical, training, and sports science personnel.
Triage feedback from Clubs and vendors; provide vendor and internal support to ensure timely response to critical issues.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree strongly preferred
Minimum 10 years industry relevant experience
Strong experience leading projects in matrixed organizations, including managing timelines, budgets, and stakeholder alignment
Advanced analytical and technological acumen with an ability to analyze complex, interconnected problems, map feedback loops and interdependencies, and communicate solutions to cross-functional teams
Demonstrated excellence in collaborating with others to achieve desired outcomes
Communication skills (written and verbal) which are equally effective with large and small audiences and on a one-to-one level, including executive-level storytelling and strategic briefings
A style that is open to change and innovation, with an ability to delegate yet control, set high standards and work collaboratively to implement change
Experience leading technology, innovation, and analytics-based projects in professional or collegiate sports, or sports injury-related fields
Experience with AWS cloud computing software
Experience from strategy consulting, technology, healthcare, analytics, product innovation, or other highly analytical environments.
Lives the mission, vision, culture and values of the NFL
Unquestionable integrity, with an ability to command respect both within and outside of the organization
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to persuade and negotiate effectively and be politically savvy.
Recognized as a great listener, learner and strategic contributor.
Ability to identify innovation opportunities and incorporate them in ongoing work
Leadership style that builds and maintains a climate of caring, respect and trust and inspires commitment from others to achieve organizational goals
A strong sense of urgency and a bias for action in making sound decisions based on a combination of analysis, experience, judgment and personal/business maturity
Embody an enthusiastic, proactive can-do attitude
Embrace grit, free from ego or entitlement
Excel as a relationship builder, with the ability to influence
Eager learner, driven by passion rather than just ambition
Encompasses an incredible work ethic with an agile mindset

Skills

Strategy
Data Science
Innovation
Technology
Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Healthcare Research
Product Development
Executive Decision-Making
Sports Science
Epidemiology
AWS cloud computing

Location

Onsite at an NFL office or stadium location

Work Type

Full-time
Onsite

Experience Level

Minimum 10 years industry relevant experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree required
Advanced degree strongly preferred

Salary/Compensations

$135,000—$170,000 USD

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits offerings

About the Company

The National Football League (NFL) is seeking a strategic, analytically driven leader to help shape the future of athlete health, safety, and performance.
The Player Health & Safety team collaborates closely with other departments across the League to implement research and innovation strategies to reduce injuries and keep players healthy.
The Director is joining the NFL at a critically important time when the organization has made unprecedented investments into medical research, biomechanical engineering, epidemiology, and data analytics, all designed to accelerate science and identify new technologies and means of preventing and treating injuries.
NFL Core Values: Respect, Integrity, Team Responsibility, Resiliency
NFL Leadership Attributes: Build Talent, Execute, Inspire, Live Our Values, Know the Business, Think Big

Equal Opportunity

The NFL is committed to building an inclusive work environment that reflects our incredible fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to status as protected by applicable federal, state, and local laws.