Partnership Protection Specialist, North America
The Partnership Protection Specialist works within Sportradar's newly formed Rights & Partnership Protection (RPP) team. This role serves as a key liaison between Sportradar and major sports rights holders across North America. The position is responsible for supporting the protection, enhancement, and operational effectiveness of Sportradar's sports partnerships through field operations, intelligence gathering, stakeholder engagement, and investigative activity.
As the regional subject matter expert, the specialist will attend sporting events throughout North America to monitor market activity impacting rights holders and provide actionable intelligence that strengthens the value and integrity of Sportradar's partnerships. The role requires a professional with a strong understanding of the North American sports ecosystem, sports betting markets, and partnership-related risks. The successful candidate will collaborate with rights holders, security teams, internal stakeholders, and international counterparts to identify emerging threats, malicious actors, and global trends affecting the sports data and betting landscape. This role is critical in ensuring Sportradar's rights partnerships continue to deliver value, remain protected from misuse, and evolve in line with an increasingly complex global betting environment.
- Act as a key operational liaison between Sportradar and allocated North American sports rights holders.
- Attend sporting events throughout North America to support rights-holder operations.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with leagues, federations, security teams, venue operators, and other key stakeholders.
- Conduct intelligence-led research into market activity to understand and analyse actors impacting rights-holder interests.
- Identify emerging risks, trends, and operational vulnerabilities affecting Sportradar's rights partnerships.
- Conduct investigative research using open-source, commercial, and industry-specific data sources.
- Lead and support digital evidence collection relating to sportsbook activity, betting markets, prediction platforms, and other relevant digital environments.
- Develop intelligence holdings relating to individuals, groups, and networks operating within the sports betting and data collection ecosystem.
- Collaborate with Rights & Partnership Protection colleagues across Europe to identify global trends, organised networks, and syndicates operating across multiple jurisdictions.
- Analyse information received from rights holders and transform operational reporting into actionable intelligence and strategic recommendations.
- Produce regular intelligence products, stakeholder briefings, and operational assessments.
- Deliver season-long reporting for partner organisations, including pre-season risk assessments, in-season updates, and post-season reviews.
- Support rights holders in developing operational best practices to enhance data collection hygiene and partnership performance.
- Plan and deliver educational workshops and awareness sessions for leagues, federations, venue operators, security personnel, and other stakeholders.
- Support SRAD and other internal stakeholders by providing intelligence and operational insights that strengthen existing partnerships and support future rights opportunities.
- Contribute to the development of global Rights & Partnership Protection methodologies, processes, and operational standards.
- 3+ years' experience in investigations, intelligence, sports integrity, law enforcement, security, due diligence, or a related analytical field (required)
- Demonstrable investigative mindset with experience conducting intelligence-led enquiries and research (required)
- Strong understanding of the North American sports landscape, particularly NBA / Basketball, MLB / Baseball, NHL / Ice Hockey (required)
- Good working knowledge of tennis and soccer (MLS), including associated betting markets and operational environments (required)
- Experience analysing information from multiple sources and producing concise, actionable reports and assessments (required)
- Understanding of sportsbook operations, sports betting ecosystems, and modern wagering mechanics-including live/in-play micro-betting, prediction platforms, exchanges, and latency arbitrage risks (required)
- Ability to identify emerging trends, behavioural patterns, and networked activity across complex environments (required)
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capabilities (required)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills (required)
- Comfortable presenting information to senior stakeholders and external partners (required)
- Experience delivering training, workshops, or educational presentations (required)
- Willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout North America (required)
- Experience working directly with professional sports leagues, federations, or rights holders (preferred)
- Experience attending and managing operational activities at live sporting events (preferred)
- Experience conducting OSINT, CYBINT/DNINT, or digital investigations (preferred)
- Existing professional network within North American sports, betting, or security sectors (preferred)
- Understanding of sports data rights, betting rights, and commercial partnership structures (preferred)
- Experience supporting or managing strategic partnerships within the sports industry (preferred)
- Proficiency in Tableau, Power BI, or Excel (Advanced) to visualise market trends and convert raw data into visual reports (preferred)
- Experience utilizing stadium CCTV systems, Video Management Systems (VMS), and control room environments to observe, identify, and document suspicious activity during live events (preferred)
- Awareness of data collection operations during live sports events (preferred)
- Additional language capabilities, particularly Spanish or Portuguese (nice-to-have)
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Performance bonus program
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
Sportradar is a global sports technology company that collects, analyses and distributes sports data to betting operators, sports leagues and media companies. Headquartered in St. Gallen, Switzerland, and founded in 2001, it provides betting services, managed trading, integrity monitoring and audiovisual streaming across hundreds of sports. The company holds official data partnerships with organisations including the NBA, NHL, FIFA and ICC. Sportradar is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange and employs several thousand people worldwide.