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Job listing closed on 7 Feb 2025

Project Employee, Data Entry & Management

🇺🇸 New York City, NY, USA
Temp
0+ years exp.

This is a temporary position with an expected duration not to exceed (10) months.

Position Summary:
In this role on the NBA’s Content Strategy & Business Intelligence team, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the NBA’s extensive social and digital content databases and processes. Reporting into the Sr. Director of Digital Data Strategy & Analytics, you will collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and various stakeholders across the league to identify data opportunities that will support content reporting and analytics.

Major Responsibilities:

  • Own social content tagging process that powers content dashboards shared company-wide, including executive leadership
  • Monitor and update content taxonomy as needed to include new content franchises, players, and initiatives in tagging process
  • Develop and maintain data tracking schedule to fill data gaps across platforms
  • Monitor data and API connections in Fivetran and communicate errors and findings to database solutions team
  • Maintain manual data entry and export/upload process for platforms with API gaps
  • Collaborate on data management projects (e.g., data standardization projects, data mapping)
  • Collaborate with content strategy team to determine data gaps and opportunities

Required Experience & Knowledge:

  • Familiarity with NBA basketball, including knowledge of players, teams, plays, and storylines, required
  • Intermediate experience working with Microsoft Excel
  • Detail oriented data background and exemplary analytical skills
  • Knowledge of social media and digital data a plus
  • Ability to work within demanding timeframes in a dynamic environment
  • High attention to detail, design, and innovation
  • Passion for data and eagerness to learn new analytics tools and languages

Educational Background Required:

  • High School Diploma or higher
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