AVP – Sports & Media Analytics Delivery Lead

EXL • New York, NY

17h

About The Position

EXL is hiring an onshore AVP to lead delivery across a portfolio of sports and media clients, including leagues, collegiate athletic conferences, teams and media networks. The role owns day-to-day client relationships, shapes analytics roadmaps, and ensures onshore and offshore teams deliver measurable impact. It is suited to a consulting-minded analytics leader who can manage several engagements at once and communicate effectively with athletics directors, commercial teams and media executives.

Requirements

• 12–16 years of experience in analytics, data science or analytics consulting, with significant delivery leadership for sports, media, entertainment or consumer clients.
• Proven ability to manage multiple clients, scope work, manage budgets and handle senior stakeholders.
• Strong SQL and Python skills.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, GCP or Azure, and BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI or Looker.
• Working knowledge of fan, ticketing, sponsorship and media/viewership analytics.
• Experience leading distributed teams, including offshore delivery centers.
• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• Authorized to work in the US or Canada and willing to travel to client sites.

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or MBA.
• Experience with collegiate athletics, including conferences, NCAA or athletic departments, or with sports media networks.
• Background at an analytics consultancy or in the analytics function of a league, team or media company.
• Exposure to GenAI/agentic AI and modern data stack implementations.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent sports and media analytics engagements, managing scope, plans, quality, timelines and client satisfaction.
• Serve as the primary onshore counterpart for client Directors and VPs, and run steering meetings and quarterly business reviews.
• Direct and coordinate EXL teams in the US and India, ensuring smooth handoffs and high-quality output.
• Lead fan and membership analytics, including segmentation, engagement, retention and lifetime value for fans, members, donors and season-ticket holders.
• Lead commercial analytics covering ticket pricing and yield, sponsorship valuation and ROI, merchandise and premium seating.
• Lead media and content analytics covering viewership and audience, streaming and digital engagement, content performance and media-rights value.
• Shape client data strategy, platforms and governance with technology teams, including for multi-member organizations such as conferences.
• Identify account growth opportunities, write proposals and statements of work, and expand EXL's footprint within each account.
• Introduce GenAI and machine-learning use cases and reusable accelerators across the portfolio.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive