Senior Manager, Roster & Budget Compliance will manage compliance related to player transactions and work closely with Legal and Player Relations on financial matters to maintain competitive balance across the League.  

In this position, the Generalist, Human Resources will partner with the HR team to deliver solutions that will champion organizational and people effectiveness by providing support across the full employee life-cycle.

Senior Accountant will support the preparation of the financial statements with an emphasis on player transactions, including all player related acquisition costs, expenses, and revenue.

The Sr. Coordinator will work closely with the Consumer Products team across licensing, retail development, on-field, and retail and League events. The candidate will manage the day-to-day Adobe system product submissions and approvals, build and maintain seasonal product decks, photoshoot sample integration, merchandise closet, and League event support. Sr. Coordinator will work closely with the On-Field team on weekly match compliance operations. The Sr. Coordinator will support Consumer Products best practices, onboard licensees, and serve as a support for Clubs and Licensees to ensure MLS is set for growth heading to the 2026 World Cup.

The candidate will work closely with the Sr. Director of Licensing, Consumer Products helping to lead strategic planning, business development and execution of the League’s licensees of consumer products strategy. Candidate will be responsible for the Day-2-Day management of the Fanatics licensees, Fanatics Brands, product approval and execution, and managing license deals that meet the strategic, commercial and fan engagement objectives specifically in the youth segment. The Youth Manager will be responsible for establishing best practices, onboarding licensees, supporting Clubs and Licensees developing product lines that increase sales, and building new partnerships to ensure MLS is set for growth as we evolve heading to the 2026 World Cup.

The individual selected for this opportunity will have a deep understanding of all types of editorial media, including a strong grasp of the digital and social media landscape. Experience and significant relationships with editorial decision makers in the areas of business and sports media are meaningful to this role. This person who fills this role will possess an ambitious spirit, high competence in executive communications and the ability to make decisions and executive plans in settings comparable to the fast-paced world of professional sports. The position is based in New York, NY and requires the individuals to be in the league’s Manhattan office a minimum of three days each week.

The Manager will serve as a League Medical Representative assisting in supporting all medical functions between the League Office and the Club medical staff.   

Major League Soccer is the top-flight men’s professional soccer league in the United States and Canada. We aspire to be one of the top leagues in the world, as defined by our quality of play, the passion of our fans, the relevance of our clubs and the value of our enterprise.  In 2023, the league will be comprised of 29 clubs, with ongoing plans to expand to 30 clubs, will play the new and annual Leagues Cup tournament, and will launch its worldwide streaming and marketing partnership with Apple.   Fans will now be able to stream every MLS match, every Leagues Cup match, and hundreds of MLS NEXT Pro and MLS NEXT matches on MLS Season Pass on the Apple TV app, worldwide and without blackouts. MLS and its Clubs are working with Apple across its products and services to reach passionate and new fans with an enhanced, simplified, and connected fan experience.   We are looking for a Director of Integration, Apple Partnership to maximize the potential of the partnership, build marketing value across the vast ecosystem, and improve the fan experience. The candidate will manage League, MLS Club and talent integration, finding on-going and unique oppportunities to create synergies across all touchpoints. This person will lead a matrixed team of internal and external constituents to achieve short-term goals, build towards long-term objectives and explore new possibilities.  

MLS Media’s Digital Team oversees the League’s digital footprint including MLSsoccer.com, the MLS App, podcasts, newsletters/email and beyond.  As part of the Media Digital team, MLS is looking for a dedicated individual to help own and revamp the League’s digital platform strategy across the MLS digital footprint to grow our contactable audience base and power a connected digital fan experience. This exciting new role will help market the League to new and existing fans while showcasing the burgeoning talent and atmosphere in MLS, partnering cross-functionally to create momentum for the MLS brand and business. 

The Manager, Partnership Marketing (Operations) will be responsible for overseeing the delivery and execution of partner specific marketing contractual assets and programs inclusive of match day and strategic platforms which are both on-site and/or virtual.

Major League Soccer’s Strategy and Business Intelligence group is tasked with supporting strategic decision making and resource allocation across the League – with a focus on driving fan growth, revenue capture, and operating efficiencies – by providing impactful data driven insights, analysis, and recommendations.  The group is seeking a new Director, who will bring a consultative approach to driving League strategy and planning.  This hire will partner with the VP, Strategy, to collaborate with departments in developing long-term & annual business plans, drive end-to-end project evaluations and manage development of new growth platforms. This individual is highly curious and analytical, able to distill clarity from complexity, and has ability to manage projects from start to finish.

Our next generation data platform will enable the fans to have the best experience with Major League Soccer with personalized content and offerings through sophisticated analytics. This position will contribute to developing future of our data platform at MLS by using powerful cloud platform capabilities.   This is role responsible for building scalable data solutions that crosscuts data engineering, architecture and software development fields.  You will be accountable for design and implementation of cloud native solutions for data ingestion, processing and compute at scale.

Our engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how millions of fans connect, explore, and interact with Major League Soccer and with one another. This role will contribute the future of our web and app ecosystem at MLS to improve fan experience.  You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software stack and have ownership for your areas including architecture to help deliver results that delight our customers, learning constantly while solving tough technical challenges.

Our data is at the core of our growth strategy and fundamental to how our League, Partners, Sponsors, Advertisers, Clubs, Players, and millions of Fans connect, explore, and engage with one another. We are seeking a hands-on leader who will own management of our data, while partnering and collaborating with team members to deliver data as a product (DaaP), as well as creating data product solutions that power our digital ecosystem. This is an opportunity to not only own data management, but also to contribute with both internal and external-facing data products.     The successful candidate is passionate about treating data ‘as a product’ to discover new insights, automate business processes, drive competitive advantage, and deliver immersive and outstanding fan experiences. You apply a product management mentality by aligning on business need and objectives before you begin building any new data product, then following that same approach in planning through OKRs, executing through agile principles, and delivering value through your data products.   The ideal candidate will demonstrate an established background in data and analytics, broad technical depth, excellent product/project management skills, superb communication, and stakeholder management skills. You have the motivation to achieve tangible results in a dynamic environment, providing thought-leadership and strategy, while also knowing when to jump in, roll up your sleeves, and lead from the front. “Hands-on” in this role means you will be expected to own, review and when necessary, assist with data architecture, data models, algorithms, code, and other development tasks as required.

The Sr. Manager of Digital Club Services is a functional leader who serves as a connector from the League’s digital strategy to the Clubs of Major League Soccer. This role will be a strategic consultant, a resource, and empathetic leader charged with servicing the clubs of MLS and partnering to build world class digital content and experiences that grow and retain MLS fans.

Major League Soccer is the top-flight professional soccer league in the United States and Canada and began play in 1996, shortly after the U.S. hosted the 1994 FIFA World Cup. Now in its 24th season in 2019, MLS continues to grow at an explosive rate, as the league features record-breaking attendance and consumption, an influx of dynamic players and 20 soccer stadiums. MLS has doubled in size during the past decade and now has 27 clubs, including future teams in Miami, Nashville and Austin that will begin play in the next few years. One more expansion team will be added in the coming years, elevating MLS to 28 clubs!     This role is encouraged to support the business operations in Canada and is passionate about Major League Soccer, which continues to grow its influence in the domestic and international sports community. The Marketing Manager is responsible for handling MLS Canada’s corporate partner accounts, supporting day-to-day business operations and leads all CRM efforts.

Major League Soccer’s Business Insights & Analytics is a centralized analytics function, supporting the league by aligning long and short-term strategy with data and providing impactful data driven insights, analysis, and recommendations.    The group is seeking a new Senior Manager who will develop and oversee reporting and analytics for MLS Season Pass, MLS’s new partnership with Apple, and live matches on Linear TV across all MLS & SUM properties.  This includes viewership, subscriber health (forecasts, conversion, retention, etc.), and subscriber LTV.  We are looking for a Sr. Manager that is highly curious, motivated, and analytical, while also able to distill clarity from complexity, with an entrepreneurial desire to innovate.  

The Senior Manager, Apple Brand Portal / Digital Asset Manager, will be part of the MLS Creative Services team — within the Brand & Integrated Marketing Department — which services all internal constituents of the League and Soccer United Marketing (the commercial and operational branch of MLS representing other soccer-related properties), as well as our clubs, commercial partners and media partners. This role will help ensure that our broadcast partner, Apple, has access to the most recent and useful digital assets, including photos, logos, event marks and creative toolkits. You will be responsible for creating and managing a new central destination for all of Apple’s creative needs and will be a key point of contact with Apple design teams in LA and Cupertino and, in the future, worldwide.   In addition, you will manage and maintain creative and marketing assets for our broader Digital Asset Management System (DAM) and our project management and proofing system (Workfront).

The Events Director will support the Property & Events team with the planning, project management and execution of SUM and MLS events, including MLS All-Star Skills Challenge, MLS Cup, Heineken Rivalry Week and Mexican National Team fan events.   The role will also support the team by overseeing production agencies, contractor management and facilitate cross-departmental meetings.   The Properties and Events department manages partnerships with Soccer United Marketing (“SUM”) Properties (U.S. Soccer, Federacion Mexicana de Futbol, CONCACAF, Liga MX and others) and oversees the development, planning and execution of Major League Soccer (“MLS”) and SUM events and platforms in North America each year, including marquee events like MLS All-Star, CONCACAF Gold Cup, MLS Cup, the Mexican National Team U.S. Tour and U.S. Soccer Federation programming. The group also spearheads organization-wide initiatives, including hospitality/B2B programming, press/media events, department/executive meetings, competition events and the development of new platforms / partnerships for the enterprise.

The Director, Communications manages and drives public relations activities for Major League Soccer and Soccer United Marketing. The Director leads all aspects of communications on MLS Competition, MLS Player Engagement, and MLS Safety and Operations matters. The individual in this role also creates and drives strategic communications plans, supports functional areas of MLS and SUM, and works closely with MLS clubs on communications strategy.