Data Scientist

About the role

Sporting Kansas City is looking for a creative and curious Data Scientist to lead the design, development, and validation of advanced models that support evidence‑informed decision‑making across the club. You will work closely with coaches, scouts, analysts, and medical staff to turn complex data into actionable insights that give the team a sustainable competitive edge.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with coaches, scouts, analysts and other stakeholders to translate football‑related questions into advanced modelling projects.
• Lead end‑to‑end development of applied models, from problem definition through deployment and review cycles.
• Build robust tools for testing, validation, versioning, monitoring, model governance and documentation.
• Continuously evaluate model performance and incorporate stakeholder feedback.
• Develop advanced metrics and predictive models for medical, sports‑science, scouting, coaching and performance‑analysis workflows.
• Support creation of player, team, league and valuation models using event, tracking and physical data.

Required profile

• Strong analytical mindset with a passion for sports and data‑driven decision making.
• Excellent communication skills to convey complex findings to non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to work collaboratively across diverse functional teams.

Required skills

What we offer

• Opportunity to influence the performance of a professional football club.
• Collaborative environment with coaches, analysts, scouts and medical staff.
• Access to rich sports, medical and tracking data sets.