Partnership Protection Specialist, North America Working within Sportradar's newly formed Rights & Partnership Protection (RPP) team, the Partnership Protection Specialist will serve as a key liaison between Sportradar and major sports rights holders across North America. The role is responsible for supporting the protection, enhancement and operational effectiveness of Sportradar's sports partnerships through a combination of field operations, intelligence gathering, stakeholder engagement and investigative activity. Acting as the regional subject matter expert, the specialist will attend sporting events throughout North America, monitor market activity impacting rights holders, and provide actionable intelligence that strengthens the value and integrity of Sportradar's partnerships. The position requires an experienced and highly motivated professional with a strong understanding of the North American sports ecosystem, sports betting markets and partnership-related risks. The successful candidate will work closely 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 will play a critical part 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. The challenge includes acting as a key operational liaison between Sportradar and allocated North American sports rights holders, attending sporting events throughout North America to support rights-holder operations, building and maintaining trusted relationships with leagues, federations, security teams, venue operators and other key stakeholders, conducting intelligence-led research into market activity to understand and analyse actors impacting rights-holder interests, identifying emerging risks, trends and operational vulnerabilities affecting Sportradar's rights partnerships, conducting investigative research using open-source, commercial and industry-specific data sources, leading and supporting digital evidence collection relating to sportsbook activity, betting markets, prediction platforms and other relevant digital environments, developing intelligence holdings relating to individuals, groups and networks operating within the sports betting and data collection ecosystem, collaborating with Rights & Partnership Protection colleagues across Europe to identify global trends, organised networks and syndicates operating across multiple jurisdictions, analysing information received from rights holders and transforming operational reporting into actionable intelligence and strategic recommendations, producing regular intelligence products, stakeholder briefings and operational assessments, delivering season-long reporting for partner organisations, including pre-season risk assessments, in-season updates and post-season reviews, supporting rights holders in developing operational best practices to enhance data collection hygiene and partnership performance, planning and delivering educational workshops and awareness sessions for leagues, federations, venue operators, security personnel and other stakeholders, supporting SRAD and other internal stakeholders by providing intelligence and operational insights that strengthen existing partnerships and support future rights opportunities, and contributing to the development of global Rights & Partnership Protection methodologies, processes and operational standards. Your profile should include 3+ years' experience in investigations, intelligence, sports integrity, law enforcement, security, due diligence or a related analytical field, a demonstrable investigative mindset with experience conducting intelligence-led enquiries and research, a strong understanding of the North American sports landscape, particularly NBA / Basketball, MLB / Baseball, NHL / Ice Hockey, good working knowledge of tennis and soccer (MLS), including associated betting markets and operational environments, experience analysing information from multiple sources and producing concise, actionable reports and assessments, understanding of sportsbook operations, sports betting ecosystems and modern wagering mechanics—including live/in-play micro-betting, prediction platforms, exchanges, and latency arbitrage risks, ability to identify emerging trends, behavioural patterns and networked activity across complex environments, strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management capabilities, excellent written and verbal communication skills, comfortable presenting information to senior stakeholders and external partners, experience delivering training, workshops or educational presentations, willingness and ability to travel extensively throughout North America.
