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About the Role

The Senior Manager of Betting runs the operating side of MLS's Sports Betting and Prediction Markets business, owning key relationships and overseeing integrity, compliance, and the data business. This is a senior operator role in a fast-moving category, responsible for protecting game integrity and growing a commercial business in a regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage relationships with key gaming companies, including sportsbooks, prediction markets, and daily-fantasy operators.
• Position MLS as a sophisticated and operationally excellent partner in the U.S. sports betting landscape.
• Manage the League's integrity operations end to end with MLS Security and Legal.
• Operate the Authorized Gaming Operator (AGO) program with sportsbook partners.
• Operate the Authorized Prediction Market (APM) program with prediction-market partners.
• Manage league-wide monitoring with IC360 and Sportradar, coordinating response and escalation.
• Manage compliance across all 30 MLS Clubs and all MLS NEXT PRO Clubs with MLS commercial gaming guidelines.
• Build the training, reporting, and audit framework for Club compliance with gaming policy and brand-safety standards.
• Build commercial partnerships with sports betting companies, ensuring alignment with the broader media partnership and brand strategy.
• Manage the relationship with Polymarket (MLS's current Prediction Market sponsor).
• Manage the MLS Data business, including the data supplier relationship with Sportec and the commercialization partnership with Sportradar.
• Drive growth in data partnerships, including new product opportunities, expanded use cases, and category development.
• Provide excellent service to MLS gaming and data partners, driving measurable growth in handle and commercial revenue.
• Build regular reporting cadence to hold partners and MLS accountable to committed performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• 7+ years of relevant experience in sports betting, prediction markets, sports data, or sports/media commercial partnerships, at a league, sportsbook, prediction-market operator, data company, or top agency.
• Direct experience operating in a regulated commercial environment with integrity and compliance requirements.
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Ability to travel 25%+ and work non-traditional hours as required.

Skills

• Deep working knowledge of the U.S. (and ideally global) sports betting, prediction-market, and sports-data industries.
• Strong relationships across sportsbooks, prediction markets, data partners, and industry monitoring organizations.
• Sophisticated commercial and partner-management skills.
• Excellent organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage many concurrent workstreams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Action-oriented, self-motivated, and resilient.
• Existing relationships across leading sportsbooks (FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, Caesars, ESPN BET, Hard Rock Bet, Fanatics, others), prediction markets (Polymarket, Kalshi, others), and sports-data providers.
• Working knowledge of state-by-state U.S. gaming regulation and emerging prediction-market regulation.
• Familiarity with integrity-monitoring platforms (IC360, Sportradar, Genius Sports, others).
• Passion for soccer and a sophisticated point of view on the future of gaming and sports betting.
• Knowledge of Soccer or sports.

Location

• In-office

Work Type

• Four (4) day in-office schedule
• One (1) day remote each week

Experience Level

• Senior Manager
• 7+ years of relevant experience

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree

Salary/Compensations

• $100,000 - $115,000

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• $500 wellness reimbursement
• Generous Holiday and PTO schedule
• On-the-job training
• Feedback
• Ongoing educational opportunities

About the Company

• Major League Soccer believes in the value of in-person collaboration to support teamwork, creativity, and connection.

Equal Opportunity

• Major League Soccer is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
• Major League Soccer is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process, as well as during employment. Applicants who require an accommodation may contact Human Resources to request assistance.