The Athletic delivers powerful stories and smart analysis that bring sports fans closer to the heart of the game. From breaking news and live commentary, to deeply-reported long reads and exclusive interviews, subscribers rely on The Athletic for every sports story that matters. Acquired by The New York Times in 2022. Learn more about career opportunities at The Athletic: https://theathletic.com/careers/

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General Counsel

Provide legal support for commercial agreements and business activities at a digital sports media company.

• Draft, negotiate and advise on a broad range of commercial agreements connected with The Athletic’s revenue-generating and other commercial activities.
• Provide practical day-to-day commercial legal support and guidance regarding relevant business risks in commercial efforts from pitch conception to agreement execution.
• Identify creative legal solutions for commercial transactions that meet consumer compliance requirements in the US and UK.
• Support procurement and insertion order process with existing agencies and vendors.
• Develop and revise contract templates as necessary based on changes in our product offerings, organization, compliance standards and jurisdictional requirements.
• Provide general commercial and compliance trainings and remain current on legal decisions, statutory changes and industry developments.
• Serve as the connective tissue between legal and all commercial departments within the company to ensure that the commercial team’s output is appropriately supported, promoted, and monetized in a legally compliant manner.
• Balance competing time sensitive demands.

Commercial Counsel (Remote)

Content Writer

Report and write unique stories covering college sports for a digital sports media company.

• Cultivate and maintain strong sources to break, confirm, advance and analyze national news.
• Take readers behind-the-scenes to unearth critical details and explain what really happened around key decisions and major issues.
• Ability to deliver high-level, in-the-moment stories when news dictates.
• Be meticulous and thorough when sourcing stories.
• Contribute on multiple platforms, including podcasts, social media, headlines and short form.
• Clean, skilled writing in long, medium and short-form formats.
• Tell rich, ambitious features through deep reporting and access to get beyond superficial storylines.
• Balance mid- and long-term projects while delivering stories and news analysis.
• Utilize a creative approach to story ideation and formats.
• Understand the sport's advanced metrics and how to apply them to written work.
• Develop a strong voice that can stand out from competitors.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and share information.
• Connect with the audience constructively by interacting with our comments sections.
• Use internal metrics to provide what readers desire.

Senior Writer, College (Remote)

Full-stack Engineer

• Our Infrastructure team is responsible for building internal tools and services to improve our product availability and our Engineering productivity
• Engineers in this team are passionate about performance, delivery and metrics
• As an infrastructure engineer, you will collaborate closely with multiple engineering teams to help develop and improve our internal tools and services
• You'll be implementing new infrastructure using Terraform and help define our scaling, alerting and monitoring
• We have lots of fresh ideas and are excited for you to join us to help us build the best sports media app in the world

Senior Software Engineer, Infrastructure (Remote)

SEO Marketing

• Optimize news content for audience growth through SEO
• Guide live journalism and newsroom to be audience-focused
• Monitor audience trends and implement strategies
• Work with editors on coverage ideas based on audience insights
• Manage ranking in Top Stories and improve content positioning
• Provide SEO guidance for daily and major events
• Help journalists with keyword research and on-page optimization
• Analyze data for tentpole events and breaking news
• Monitor and react to search engine algorithm changes

Associate Newsroom SEO Editor (Remote)

• Write and produce content on leadership and personal development for multiple platforms
• Package our most insightful and engaging leadership adjacent content in a compelling way to reach wider audiences on multiple platforms
• Edit and write for multiple platforms, including LinkedIn, newsletters, audio and video
• Contribute to the creative process for new products, such as newsletters and audio/video concepts
• Distill longer pieces into digestible formats and explain complex topics
• Collaborate with the Creative Development and Commercial teams on new revenue opportunities outside of the daily report
• Maintain a strong voice that stands out from competitors

Content Producer (Remote)

• This role will work closely with the editorial team to enhance articles, social media, newsletters and audio experiences with custom artwork and templates.
• Daily-basis: Use photos, type and vector elements to create bespoke hero images for stories and social posts.
• Monthly-basis: Maintain and audit a library of editorial and social templates, creating new templates when needed.
• Project-basis: Commission freelance illustrators to create original artwork for podcasts.

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