It’s an intern:
We are seeking a highly skilled and passionate Strategic Football Fellow to join our dynamic team as a summer intern with the potential to be extended to a season-long internship. As a Strategic Football Fellow, you will be responsible for supporting all aspects of the Dallas Cowboys Strategic Football Operations (SFO) Department as needed. Working closely with our coaching, scouting, and front office staff, the SFO Department analyzes and interprets data to provide data-driven insights and recommendations to help the team succeed. The ideal candidate possesses a deep understanding of football analytics, excellent statistical analysis skills, the ability to communicate insights to non-technical stakeholders, a keen eye for detail, and a track record of elite work ethic, humility, and professionalism.
Key Responsibilities:
- Coordinate collection and reporting of wearable player tracking data for all practices and conduct detailed statistical analysis of performance data to identify patterns, trends, and key metrics that can enhance team performance.
- Lead the collection, cleaning, and validation of ad-hoc datasets used for football decision-making.
- Contribute to the creation of reports, dashboards, data visualizations, and data engineering processes.
- Work with tracking data to develop internal metrics for advance scouting and player evaluation.
- Provide insights on player performance and talent identification based on statistical analysis.
- Assist the SFO Department in supporting the coaches, scouts, and front office staff to develop and implement data-driven strategies.
- This fellowship is 100% onsite and in-person and not remote.