The Vice President, Customer Solutions Advisory, Sports is a strategic and technical leader responsible for driving Vizrt’s global sports solution advisory organization. This role oversees the global team focused on sports pre-sales, ensuring alignment with Vizrt’s sports strategy and solution portfolio including Viz Libero, Viz Arena, Viz Engine, data workflows, AR/XR, and cloud-enabled sports production. This position is both technical and leadership focused. The VP must be capable of delivering high-quality demonstrations, leading complex proof of concepts, designing end-to-end workflows, and architecting robust solutions. In addition to team leadership, the role requires deep hands-on understanding of Vizrt solutions and the ability to support high-profile opportunities directly. Leadership & Strategy Lead and manage the global Customer Solutions Advisory (Sports) team, ensuring consistent execution aligned with Vizrt’s global sports strategy. Partner closely with Sports business leadership, Product Management, and R&D to shape product direction, market readiness, and solution innovation. Participate in sports strategy sessions, long-term planning, and cross-functional leadership forums. Establish global standards for sports demonstrations, workflows, technical validation, and customer engagement. Ensure the global team remains aligned on customer outcomes, competitive landscape, and evolving sports production trends. Customer & Market Engagement Engage with strategic sports customers including major broadcasters, leagues, and federations to understand objectives and define success criteria. Act as an executive technical sponsor for major opportunities and partnerships. Represent Vizrt at high-profile sports events, technology conferences, and industry forums. Ensure the team is trained to identify customer goals and position Vizrt solutions to meet and exceed those goals. Technical Demonstrations & Hands-On Delivery Personally deliver or oversee advanced demonstrations of Viz Libero, Viz Arena, Viz Engine, AR/XR workflows, and cloud-based production tools. Lead high-impact proof of concepts, solution evaluations, and technical workshops for key accounts. Ensure all demonstrations and POCs follow best practices and reflect the full capabilities of Vizrt’s sports portfolio. Support major or complex deals directly as the executive technical resource. Solution Architecture & Workflow Design Architect end-to-end sports production workflows that span analysis, AR, data integration, live production, replay, automation, and multi-platform distribution. Guide the global team in producing clear solution diagrams, integration designs, and technical documentation. Validate system requirements, integrations, performance considerations, redundancy, and scalability. Ensure solutions are modern, efficient, and aligned to customer outcomes across broadcast, digital, and in-venue applications. Cross-Functional Collaboration Work closely with Sales leadership to support pipeline growth and strategic account planning. Collaborate with Product Management and R&D to communicate customer needs, feature requests, and market requirements. Ensure tight alignment with Professional Services on POCs, project scoping, onboarding, and delivery. Partner with Marketing to support thought leadership, case studies, and sports solution storytelling. Across Vizrt, we all work with our shared purpose in mind; to deliver more stories, better told. That is because we believe that stories have the power to impact not just the audience, but the teller as well. A well-crafted and well-delivered story can change the world. We strive and innovate to deliver the best software-defined visual storytelling tools to the world’s storytellers across broadcast, media, public service, enterprise, not-for-profit, education, health, houses of worship, in fact wherever there is a need to educate, entertain or inform. Because that is what stories do, it is why they are important 4 billion humans see the stories that our customers tell every day. So, for us diversity is not an optional objective, it is a simple reality. Our customers’ customers are diverse, our customers are diverse, Vizrt gains strength from being diverse It is true that we hold our diversity to be essential, it is something we constantly nourish and pay attention to, but it is not something we take for granted. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment. We champion inclusion and we value each other’s stories, and we relish their telling Join our team and take advantage of these benefits while working in a dynamic and supportive environment.