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Genius Sports
Marketing & Sales 16h ago

Principal Technical SEO

Genius Sports
MaltaMalta
Full-time
Not Disclosed
Senior-Level

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About Legend

Legend is a world-leading sports and gaming media network, reaching hundreds of millions of visitors annually. As part of Genius Sports, Legend combines its audience, brands, and product expertise with real-time data and technology to create the next generation of fan-facing media and advertising.

Here at Legend, we’re building next-level player experiences with over 20+ years of proven success, making us the world’s leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.

Our team of 600+ sharp, ambitious Legends across 22+ countries move fast, learn quickly, and win together. Growth isn’t a perk—it’s the standard. You’ll stretch, level-up, and carve out a career as bold as the products we build. We celebrate wins and create experiences that people talk about for years—both for our players and for each other.

The Role

Legend is hiring a Principal Technical SEO, reporting directly to our Chief Gaming Officer.

This is a rare opportunity to take portfolio-wide responsibility for the technical SEO performance of some of the largest and most commercially important domains in iGaming. Working alongside our existing Principal Technical SEO, you will co-own technical SEO across our Gaming portfolio while also supporting our Sports portfolio.

You will identify the technical opportunities and risks that matter most, turn them into clear priorities, and work closely with Product and Engineering to deliver measurable organic and commercial impact. This is a deeply hands-on role where you will solve complex challenges across crawling, rendering, indexation, architecture, internal linking, internationalisation, migrations, and performance, while setting standards that scale across our portfolio.

You will also play a key role in advancing how we use AI and automation across SEO. You will build tools, monitoring, diagnostics, and automated workflows yourself, using technology to improve the speed and quality of decision-making and helping our wider SEO teams adopt these capabilities.

This is a senior individual contributor role with significant autonomy and visibility. You will lead through expertise rather than formal authority, working alongside senior specialists and leaders across SEO, Product, Engineering, and Analytics to shape decisions across the organization.

In this role, we value diverse perspectives and encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed.

Your Impact:

  • Co-own our portfolio-wide technical SEO strategy, roadmap, and standards, identifying and prioritising the opportunities and risks with the greatest potential organic and commercial impact.
  • Lead complex technical investigations across crawling, rendering, indexation, architecture, internal linking, international SEO, migrations, structured data, and web performance.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering on architecture, major releases, migrations, and experimentation, translating technical SEO insights into clear priorities and scalable solutions.
  • Build automated monitoring, diagnostics, and early-warning systems that identify material technical issues before they become significant commercial problems.
  • Develop internal tools and AI-enabled workflows that improve analysis, quality assurance, prioritisation, and execution across technical SEO and the wider SEO organisation.
  • Create reusable technical patterns, guardrails, and frameworks across our portfolio, raising technical capability through coaching, documentation, and shared tooling.

What You’ll Bring:

  • Repeated technical SEO impact at scale - a strong track record of personally leading complex technical SEO initiatives across large websites or multi-domain portfolios, with clear evidence of measurable organic or commercial outcomes.
  • Exceptional technical SEO depth and judgement - expert knowledge across crawling, rendering, indexation, architecture, internal linking, canonicalisation, international SEO, migrations, structured data, JavaScript SEO, log-file analysis, and web performance, with the judgement to separate material opportunities from technical hygiene.
  • Commercial and strategic thinking - able to translate complex technical findings into priorities based on expected value, risk, effort, confidence, and opportunity cost, connecting technical decisions to organic and commercial outcomes.
  • Principal-level influence - experienced in influencing Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders without direct authority, challenging constructively, and communicating complex technical decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • A builder’s mindset - intellectually curious, technically self-sufficient, and comfortable remaining deeply hands-on while creating systems, standards, and capabilities that increase the impact of teams beyond your own individual contribution.

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Genius Sports is a premier, enterprise-grade sports data and technology powerhouse engineered to orchestrate massive-scale live-event ecosystems and intelligent, frictionless fan-engagement workflows. Operating as the essential "layer" between field-of-play action and global consumption, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional, legacy data-aggregation models—which frequently suffer from latency, fragmented stats, and opaque officiating-logic—by seamlessly deploying advanced "GeniusIQ" AI-driven telemetry, rigorous computer-vision tracking architectures, and cohesive multi-channel distribution frameworks [cite: 1.1.2]. Moving beyond rigid legacy betting-data paradigms, Genius Sports empowers elite leagues (NFL, Premier League, NBA), broadcasters, and global sportsbooks to dynamically synchronize their real-time data, automated officiating, and personalized fan-activation pipelines with elite, scalable, and audit-ready execution. Under the hood, their sophisticated proprietary operational infrastructure—anchored by global tech hubs in London, New York, and Medellín—natively manages complex real-time data ingestion, instantaneous bet-stream routing, and automated AI-driven broadcast augmentations, providing the necessary operational foundation for the modern sports economy. What sets Genius Sports apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless sports-orchestration; by bridging the gap between highly technical, performance-intensive data demands and accessible, high-velocity fan-engagement interfaces (such as BetVision), the firm empowers modern sports organizations to radically accelerate their fan-monetization velocity, eliminate systemic broadcast-bottlenecks, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous commercial and institutional dominance in the modern, AI-transformed global-sports landscape [cite: 1.1.2].

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