Commercial Operations Team Lead
Legend is hiring a Commercial Operations Team Lead to join its Commercial team. This role involves leading a talented team responsible for ensuring the data and operational processes behind partnerships run accurately, efficiently, and at pace. It is an operations leadership role in a data-rich environment, not a traditional Data Analyst role.
The successful candidate will take ownership of a busy, deadline-driven operation, helping their team manage large volumes of commercial data accurately while continually looking for smarter ways to work. The role requires someone who can spot bottlenecks, challenge inefficient processes, and use automation, technology, and AI to help scale operations. A key aspect of the role is leading the people behind the operation, with an emphasis on delegation, team development, and creating an environment where individuals can perform at their best, even during busy periods. The ideal candidate is a leader who proactively seeks to simplify, speed up, and improve complex processes.
- Lead and develop a high-performing team, creating clear priorities, delegating effectively, and building a positive culture where people feel supported, challenged, and able to do their best work.
- Own critical commercial operations cycles, ensuring large volumes of data are reviewed, processed, and delivered accurately against demanding daily and monthly deadlines.
- Make the operation smarter by identifying bottlenecks and manual processes and introducing improvements through better workflows, automation, AI, and technology.
- Get to the root of problems, spotting anomalies and investigating whether issues sit within data, mapping, logic, or process before recommending practical solutions.
- Manage competing priorities by understanding team capacity, escalating risks early, and confidently challenging or reprioritising work when everything cannot happen at once.
- Help scale the operation by building processes that can handle increasing volume and complexity without relying on simply adding more people.
- Strong people leadership experience within a fast-paced operations environment, with the ability to delegate, coach, motivate, and manage a busy team rather than trying to do everything yourself (required).
- A process-improvement mindset and examples of where you've simplified, automated, or redesigned operational workflows to improve efficiency, quality, or scalability (required).
- Strong analytical and logical thinking skills. Comfortable working with large volumes of data, spotting trends and anomalies, and investigating root causes (required).
- Confidence working to tight deadlines and managing competing priorities, with the judgement to know what needs immediate attention, what can wait, and when something needs escalating (required).
- A proactive, solutions-focused approach. You don't just identify problems, you investigate them, bring ideas, and help move things forward (required).
- Confidence with Excel and operational systems, alongside the curiosity to learn new tools quickly and explore how technology and AI can improve the way your team works (required).
Genius Sports is a sports data and technology company that supplies official data, streaming, integrity and advertising services to sports leagues, sportsbooks and media companies. Founded in 2001 and headquartered in London, with a major office in New York and others worldwide, it is the official data partner of organisations including the NFL, English Premier League and FIBA. The company provides the technology that connects sports, betting and media businesses. Genius Sports is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.