Remote Jobs in Sports: What 10,827 Postings Show (2026)

Last reviewed: November 2026

You run lifecycle marketing, or a data team, or a payments service, and you'd take the same job tomorrow at a company whose product is the thing you watch on Sunday. So you search "remote jobs in sports," and LinkedIn's results page promises thousands of open roles (3,000+ when we checked on November 10, 2026).

Then you open the NBA's career site. Five postings carry the location "New York, USA - Remote." Each says "WORK OPTION: Remote" and, on the next line, names an arena: "Candidates must be able to work all shifts onsite at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI." The pay line reads "$200/Daily game rate." The NFL's postings are blunter. On November 10, all 44 of its US listings carried the same sentence: "This role requires onsite presence at an NFL office or stadium location, and remote and/or hybrid working options are not offered."

The industry you want to work in is built around buildings and game nights, and its job boards use the word "remote" loosely. The remote seats are real and they pay well. They just aren't where a fan would look first.

We analyzed 10,827 sports job postings on November 10, 2026: 8,603 listings from 952 organizations on TeamWork Online, the board teams and leagues hire through, and 2,224 US postings on the career sites of 75 sports employers.

Every number below carries its count, so you can check it against your own search.

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Where Remote Jobs in Sports Actually Are

Start with the board the industry uses. TeamWork Online is where clubs, leagues, arenas and their vendors post, and it sorts every listing into a group and tags it on-site, hybrid or remote.

Source: our read of all 87 TeamWork Online result pages, November 10, 2026.

One group, Technology, holds 134 of the 211 remote listings. The five league groups together post 16 remote listings out of 2,762. Football posts none in 261.

The reason is what a team sells. Of the board's 8,603 listings, 3,618 are tagged Facility Operations/Event Staff, 2,271 Food and Beverage and 1,751 Ticket Sales and Services (a listing can carry more than one tag). A club's revenue walks through a gate on a specific night, so its payroll is ushers, cooks, ticket reps, sponsorship activators and broadcast crews. A team sells a seat in a building on a date. Everything it hires for has to be near that seat.

Now the employers one step off the field. We pulled every open posting from the career sites of 75 sports employers and kept the 1,435 professional ones.

Source: our analysis of 1,435 professional US postings on 75 sports employers' career sites, November 10, 2026. Percentages are shares of each row's professional postings.

Sportsbooks and sports tech together post 153 of the 226 remote seats, which is 32.3% (n=153 of 473) of their own professional postings. The teams, leagues and venues in the same pull, which include the NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, AEG, Monumental Sports and BSE Global, post three.

Employer type isn't the whole story, though. PrizePicks lists 26 of its 28 professional postings as remote, Teamworks 10 of 10 and Gametime 9 of 9. FanDuel lists 1 of 77 and tags 73 hybrid. WHOOP lists 2 of 109, StubHub 0 of 46 and Nike 0 of 146. Two sportsbooks can sit on opposite policies, which is why the test below gets you to the right pile and the posting's own sentence finishes the job. If you're an engineer, the remote software engineer openings we track follow the same split. Sports media has its own rules, and our guide to remote media jobs covers that side.

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The Game-Day Test: Score Any Sports Posting in a Minute

Three things decide whether a sports job can leave the building, and none of them is how the hiring manager feels about remote work.

The dollar ranges are the middle half of posted pay in each band. At a perfect 10, 36.9% (n=97 of 263) of postings are remote. At 0 to 2, none are (n=0 of 82).

Here's the test on real postings. BSE Global's "Account Executive, Group Sales - New York Liberty" sells tickets (0), is "expected to attend New York Liberty home games and other events as needed, including nights, weekends, and holidays" (1), and is ticket sales (1). That's a 2, and it posts $26.45 an hour in Brooklyn. The NBA's "Finance Manager, WNBA Team Finance" works for a league (0) with no event clock (3) in finance (2): a 5, office-listed in New York at $115,000 to $130,000. PrizePicks' "Manager, CRM Marketing" sells a fantasy product (4), has no event clock (3) and is marketing (2): a 9, remote, $110,000 to $130,000. Hudl's "Engineering Manager" is a 10 and remote at $132,000 to $220,000.

Notice what moved the score from 2 to 9. It wasn't the function. A seller stays a seller. The employer changed.

• If you sell: a ticket rep at a club scores 2. An account executive at a ticketing or team-software company scores 8.
• If you market: brand work at a league office scores 5. CRM and lifecycle at a sportsbook scores 9.
• If you build: an engineer at a league scores 6. The same engineer at a sportsbook or a sports software company scores 10.
• If you coach, scout or run game operations: you score 0 to 3 everywhere, and the job is in the building. That's the work, not a policy.

Seats that score 7 or higher sit on ordinary company career pages under ordinary titles, dozens of employers deep. Finding and applying to all of them by hand is the slow part, and it's the part worth automating.

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How We Collected This Data

Start with what we couldn't see. Indeed, Glassdoor and ZipRecruiter block our crawler and Reddit is unreadable to it, so nothing here comes from them. Clubs that hire only through a private applicant system or by referral aren't in the count, and neither are college athletic departments that post on campus HR sites.

The TeamWork Online numbers come from all 87 result pages of its jobs board on November 10, 2026: 8,603 unique listings from 952 organizations, counted with the board's own workplace, level, group and category filters. We then read 411 full job pages (20 more returned a challenge screen and stayed unread).

The career-site numbers come from the public Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, SmartRecruiters and Workday boards of 86 sports employers: 3,900 postings, 2,224 of them in the United States at 75 employers. We set aside 719 store, warehouse, venue, hourly and seasonal seats and 70 internships, which left 1,435 professional postings. A posting counts as remote only when its location or work-model field says remote and the body doesn't contradict it. A named office with no statement counts as neither remote nor hybrid.

About ten employers post in both places (roughly 300 listings), so every share in this post is computed inside one set and never on the 10,827 total.

We reviewed the remote-tagged career-site postings employer by employer and moved the ones whose text contradicted the tag: the NBA arena jobs, a PrizePicks research seat whose body says hybrid, and the Nike postings whose work-model field reads "Non-Remote Posting," which a keyword match first counted as remote. Function labels come from title keywords, so some postings are misfiled, and 79 landed in "other."

Pay figures are posted base ranges only, taken at the midpoint, with hourly rates multiplied by 2,080. They appear on 954 of the 1,435 professional postings and were cross-referenced with Bureau of Labor Statistics data for the occupation group. The sample leans toward product companies, which use public job boards, and away from small clubs, which often don't. This is a single-day read. We update it quarterly.

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What "Remote" Means on a Sports Job Board

Take the 211 remote listings on TeamWork Online apart and three organizations account for 129 of them.

SponsorUnited posts 77, all titled "SponsorUniversity Regional Scout." The compensation line: "Unpaid internship; approved event tickets and venue-access costs are provided for assigned in-person scouting opportunities." The location line: "Must reside within a 60–90 minute travel radius of a listed hiring market and be able to travel to assigned venues as needed."

Akara Markets posts 36 "Sports Data Reporter" listings at $75 to $120 a game. First responsibility: "Travel independently to assigned sporting events within your local area."

Athletes Untapped posts 16 private-coach listings, one per sport. "Set your own rates (typically ranges anywhere from $30–$100/hour)," then go meet the athlete at a field.

None of those is a desk at home. All three are work at a venue that isn't the employer's office, and the board's remote tag is the closest box. In sports, "remote" on a listing often means "not at our office." It does not always mean "at your house." That's also how five NBA technology jobs end up labeled remote while requiring every shift at a G League arena.

If you use the board yourself, set Workplace Type to Remote and then open the Technology group first. That one filter combination holds 134 of the 211 listings, and sorting by organization shows you the three gig posters at a glance.

The other 82 remote listings come from 50 organizations: 18 internships, 18 entry-level seats, 7 part-time and 39 tagged Manager, Director or Senior. Those 39 are 2.0% (n=39 of 1,999) of the board's manager-and-above listings. They're real jobs: PrizePicks engineers and analysts, a "Senior Counsel, Technology & Privacy" at U.S. Soccer, a "VP, Technology" at the WTA Tour, sponsorship sales leads at agencies, and national-team coaches who travel for a living.

General aggregators fail in a different way. We ran "sports" with the location set to remote on SimplyHired, which carries Indeed's feed: 277 results. Of the 213 unique listings we read, about half (106) came from a sports employer or carried a sports staff title. Another 36 were sports medicine or health-system jobs, and 43 had no connection to sports that we could find, including a news editor at Apple and a patent analyst. The word "sports" is a poor search term. Employer names and function titles are better ones, and our review of the best remote job boards covers which boards let you search that way.

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Remote Sports Jobs by Function

Your function decides more than your fandom does. Here is every professional posting from the 75 career sites, sorted by the work.

Source: our analysis of 1,435 professional US postings, November 10, 2026. Remote share is remote postings divided by that row's professional postings.

Read the table as three decisions:

• Remote share of 17% or more (engineering, trading and risk, product, marketing): search your title across every sportsbook, ticketing and sports software company. There are enough seats to be choosy about the office rule.
• 9% to 14% (creative, sales, finance and legal, data): the seats exist but sit at a handful of employers. Work down the table of fifteen in the next section, one career page at a time.
• Under 5% (operations, support, team operations): plan on a hybrid or on-site seat, or move to an adjacent function before you move into sports.

Engineering is the remote sports job. It takes 103 of the 226 remote seats, and 180 of the 226 carry a senior, lead, manager or director title. Fanatics Betting & Gaming posts "Staff Engineer - Backend/Kotlin (REMOTE)" at $144,000 to $235,000. GameChanger posts "Staff Software Engineer, Video Enablement" at $169,000 to $185,000. If that's your lane, our remote software engineer guide covers the interview side.

Marketing is more remote than most people expect, and nearly all of it is retention work at sportsbooks: PrizePicks' "Manager, CRM Marketing" at $110,000 to $130,000, Fanatics Betting & Gaming's "Director, Marketing Investment + Effectiveness" at $189,000 to $235,000, Teamworks' "Senior Product Marketing Manager" at $150,000 to $170,000. Those are remote marketing manager seats that happen to have a sports product, and the skills are the ones in our digital marketing guide.

Sales and partnerships go remote when the buyer is a team rather than a fan. Teamworks' "Senior Account Executive I" sells software to front offices at $150,000 to $190,000. SeatGeek's "Client Success Manager" posts $110,000 to $130,000. The Athletic's "Business Development and Partnerships Director" posts $130,000 to $145,000. Selling tickets to fans stays at the arena. The same motion sold business-to-business shows up among remote account executive roles.

Data and analytics is the surprise. "Sports analytics" is what most people picture when they imagine this career, and it's one of the least remote functions here at 9.3% (n=11 of 118). The analysts at clubs sit near the coaches and the ticket office. The remote data seats are at product companies: PrizePicks' "Manager, Lifecycle Marketing Analytics" at $190,000 to $210,000, The Athletic's "Data Scientist" at $125,000 to $145,000, SeatGeek's "Senior Data Analyst, Supply" at $108,000 to $157,000. Compare them against the wider data and analytics category and our remote data analyst guide.

Finance, legal and risk seats are few and senior. DraftKings posts "Corporate Counsel, General Litigation" remote at $160,800 to $201,000. Underdog posts a "Treasury Manager" at $128,000 to $160,000 and a "Senior Manager, Fraud" at $140,000 to $175,000. Alt, a trading-card marketplace, posts a remote "Controller" at $165,000 to $190,000. Regulated wagering needs lawyers and fraud teams, and it hires them from the same pool as fintech, so the legal and compliance listings and our risk management guide apply directly.

Of the 226 remote seats, 123 are not engineering. They exist. They just sit at a short list of employers, and you have to check each one.

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What Remote Sports Jobs Pay

Remote professional postings in this dataset post a median of $167,500 (n=187). Of those 187, 172 start at $75,000 or more, 156 at $100,000 or more and 116 at $150,000 or more. Everything that isn't remote posts a $143,500 median (n=767).

Remote pays more here for a plain reason: the remote seats sit at the employers that pay like software companies. The remote sports job is a software job with a scoreboard in the product. It pays like one, and it interviews like one.

The discount people talk about in sports is real, and it sits with the clubs and leagues. Same function, two kinds of employer:

Source: median posted base pay, professional US postings with a posted range, November 10, 2026. First-party data.

Salary ranges derive from our analysis of 1,435 professional postings on 75 sports employers' career sites, read November 10, 2026, of which 954 post a base range. Bonus and equity are not included, and several employers name them next to the range: DraftKings' postings add "plus bonus, equity, and benefits." Ranges move with the market, so check the linked sources for current figures.

The league-office numbers flatter the team side. On TeamWork Online, where the clubs themselves post, we read 96 team, arena and owner listings tagged Manager or above. Pay appeared on 49, at an $84,000 median: $72,800 for the Manager tag (n=29), $105,000 for Director (n=13) and about $170,000 for Senior (n=7). Below that tier the numbers drop quickly. Monumental Sports posts "Account Executive, Inside Sales (Caps)" at $18.40 an hour.

For scale, the Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median wage for entertainment and sports occupations at $59,400 in May 2025, against $50,980 for all occupations, with coaches and scouts at $47,320. That group is performers, coaches and officials. The remote seats are software, marketing and finance occupations that happen to sit inside sports companies, which is why they clear the $100K remote salary band so easily and why 116 of them reach the $150K tier.

Not every remote seat pays like that. Fifteen of the 187 post under $75,000, all in live trading, VIP service, community, agency design or operations. Penn Interactive's "Sportsbook Trader, Live - Evenings & Weekends" is remote at $50,000 to $55,000. Those are the entry rung of the sportsbook ladder, and the title tells you the schedule.

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Who Posts Remote Sports Jobs, and Their Office Rules

Fifteen employers post 197 of the 226 remote professional seats.

Source: our analysis of professional US postings on each employer's career site, November 10, 2026.

The mix inside each employer differs, and it matters if you aren't an engineer. Penn Interactive's remote seats are 13 engineering out of 15. PrizePicks spreads its 26 across engineering (12), marketing (3), trading (3) and analytics, product and government affairs. DraftKings' 19 split between engineering (6), marketing and VIP (4) and legal and people (4). GMR Marketing's 15 are designers, producers and account leads, and it is the only employer on the list where a creative title is the norm. The boards are public, so you can check today's count yourself: PrizePicks, DraftKings, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Penn Interactive and Teamworks all list every opening on one page.

A fan may not enjoy this, but the best-paid remote work in sports is in wagering. Sportsbooks and fantasy operators post 94 of the 226 remote seats, more than every other kind of sports employer, and four of the top six employers in that table take bets or entry fees.

Now the other direction. These employers put the rule in writing, so you don't have to guess.

Source: verbatim sentences from each employer's US postings, November 10, 2026.

The location line needs the same reading. Five patterns in these postings should slow you down:

• "Remote" next to a named venue. The NBA's arena jobs. The work is at the venue. Our guess is that the location field had no better box for a job based nowhere near headquarters.
• "Remote" with a per-game or per-day rate. Akara's $75 to $120 a game, the NBA's $200 a game day. That's event staffing, paid by the event.
• "Remote" with a travel radius. "Must reside within a 60–90 minute travel radius" means you drive to the work.
• A state list. Hudl takes remote applicants "who reside in one of the following states" and names 30. GameChanger writes that it is "unable to hire in AK, DE, HI, IA, LA, MS, MT, OK, and SC." Eight of the 226 remote postings carry a list like this (n=8 of 226), so check yours before you write a cover letter.
• "Open to remote for the right candidate." Excel Sports Management's phrasing on a senior agent seat. It's an office job with an exception. You'd be negotiating for the exception, so ask about it in the first call.

A rule that works: at a Game-Day score of 7 or more with a written remote sentence, apply. At 7 or more with a hybrid sentence, apply only if you live in that city or will move. Under 4, move on, whatever the tag says.

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What a Sportsbook Job Asks That a Software Job Doesn't

Sportsbooks post more remote seats than any other kind of sports employer, and they come with three conditions a SaaS company wouldn't set.

A license. DraftKings puts the same sentence in all 53 of its US postings: "As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment." Across sportsbooks, 19.5% (n=52 of 267) of professional postings mention gaming licensing. PrizePicks asks senior hires for the "ability to pass key personnel submissions and background checks as part of gaming licenses." Rush Street Interactive tells support agents they "will be required to obtain and maintain a license with one or more gaming regulatory agencies."

What that involves varies by state. As one example, Colorado's Division of Gaming fee table lists a two-year key employee license at $275 with fingerprinting, $215 to renew, plus a $1,000 background deposit billed at $84 an hour. A support employee license is $115. Expect fingerprints and a background questionnaire, and ask the recruiter which states your role would be licensed in and who files the paperwork.

You can't bet where you work. State rules bar operator employees from their own product. FanDuel's Wyoming restricted-person page quotes the rule: employees "as well as those within the same household, may not wager with the sports wagering operator or sports wagering vendor for which he or she is employed unless using a test account." If your spouse has an account, that sentence applies to them too.

The event clock follows you home. Sportsbooks name nights, weekends or game days in 15.7% (n=42 of 267) of professional postings, against 3.9% (n=8 of 206) at sports tech and ticketing companies. Live trading and VIP seats are remote and on the game schedule. DraftKings' remote "VIP Service Representative" posts $64,000 to $80,000 and asks for "willingness to travel and work nights and weekends." Engineers should ask too: a sportsbook is busiest when the games are on, so find out how on-call is split during the season.

If you want sports and ordinary hours, pick the software and ticketing companies over the sportsbooks. They post fewer remote seats (59 against 94), but under 4% of their postings mention a night or a weekend, and nobody fingerprints you. If you want the highest remote count and you're comfortable in a regulated business, sportsbooks are the larger pool, and our remote compliance guide covers what that environment is like from the inside.

Either way, the list of employers worth applying to is short, and each one has to be checked on its own career page. Doing that for 30 companies every week is the kind of task that gets skipped by week three.

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How to Run the Search

On that last point, here's the pattern as a template. A weak line reads: "Lifelong NFL fan with a passion for the business of sports." A strong one reads: "Ran the lifecycle program for N subscribers; cut 90-day churn from X to Y." Fill in your own numbers. The hiring manager at a sportsbook is filling a CRM seat. They assume you like sports, since everyone who applies does.

Three questions to ask in the first interview, because the postings don't always answer them:

• How many office days does this team keep, and who decides exceptions?
• Is this team on the event clock? What did the last playoff week or opening weekend look like?
• Does this role need a state license, in which states, and who files it?

Where each function should look first:

• Engineers, data engineers and product managers: sportsbooks, ticket marketplaces and team software. The remote data engineer guide and the program manager listings cover adjacent titles.
• Marketers: sportsbook CRM and lifecycle teams first. For brand and sponsorship work, agencies: GMR Marketing lists 15 of 15 professional postings remote at an $88,000 median. See our brand manager guide.
• Sellers: account seats at team-software and ticketing companies, where the customer is a front office. Our account executive guide and business development guide explain how those quotas are built.
• Finance and legal: sportsbooks and collectibles marketplaces, where money movement is regulated. The finance and accounting listings show comparable ranges outside sports.
• Analysts: product companies, not clubs. Start from the remote data analyst openings.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Start Your Remote Sports Job Search

Three things to carry out of this. The remote jobs in sports sit at the companies that sell to the game or take bets on it, not at the clubs. A posting's Game-Day score tells you which pile it's in, and its last paragraph tells you the office rule. And the seats that are remote pay a $167,500 posted median, because they are engineering, marketing, finance and product jobs first.

If you're building a target list, start with the function guides: remote software engineer jobs and remote digital marketing jobs. Check pay against remote jobs paying $100K or more, and use the best remote job boards to cover the employers we didn't sweep.

The game has to be played in the building. Most of what gets built around it doesn't.