Project Employee, Content Tagging & Management
About The Position
In this role on the NBA’s Content Strategy & Analytics team, you will help power the league’s social and digital analytics ecosystem by managing the tagging, organization, and integrity of NBA content metadata. You will oversee the end‑to‑end social content tagging process that fuels dashboards used across the organization, including by senior leadership, ensuring that every piece of content is accurately classified and aligned to an evolving taxonomy of players, teams, franchises, and initiatives. You will maintain and enhance the data infrastructure behind our content reporting—monitoring API connections, managing manual data workflows where needed, and developing schedules to close data gaps across platforms. Working closely with data engineers, analysts, and the content publishing team, you will strengthen the league’s ability to measure performance, uncover insights, and support strategic decision‑making. This role is ideal for someone who brings strong attention to detail, a passion for basketball, and an eagerness to gain foundation analytics and content experience in a fast‑paced, highly collaborative environment.
Requirements
- 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
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
Benefits
- Project Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical; short-term disability; mental health coaching/therapy; and sick time.
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Career Level
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