Vice President, Technology, Flag Football at NexGen Sports Group, Inc – Winter Park, Florida

Reporting directly to TMRW Sports’ Chief Technology Officer, and serving as a key leadership team member to the SVP, Operations, Flag Football, the VP, Technology, Flag Football will define and execute the end-to-end technology strategy for our upcoming flag football league, translating concept into a game-ready, scalable technology foundation that powers competition, fan engagement, and league operations from launch through future seasons.

This leader is both visionary and hands-on, owning the technology lifecycle across discovery and architecture, build and lab testing, integration and security, and game-day readiness. They will partner closely with product, engineering, operations, and marketing teams, as well as external vendors, to deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions while maintaining architectural integrity, cross TMRW Sports alignment, and a high bar for quality.

The VP, Technology, Flag Football will establish governance for quality, security, privacy, and scalability across all implementations, and will build a high-performing technology function leveraging an integrated set of vendor partner solutions. This role requires extensive travel during build phases and throughout the season.

Responsibilities:

Technology Strategy, Architecture & Delivery

• Own the end-to-end technology lifecycle for the flag football league, from solution design through build, lab testing, integration, and launch.
• Deliver the target architecture and technology roadmap[AM1] [WS2] across competition systems, fan-facing experiences, and operational platforms to enable a scalable, extensible foundation.
• Establish program plans, milestones, and release readiness criteria to ensure on-time delivery and game-day reliability.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Integration

• Partner with product, engineering, operations, and marketing leaders to translate business objectives into prioritized technology initiatives and clear requirements.
• Lead end-to-end integration planning across systems (e.g., competition workflows, content/data pipelines, identity/access, and operations tooling) to deliver seamless experiences for athletes, teams, staff, and fans.
• Own launch readiness across stakeholders, including runbooks, incident response, and leading the day-of-competition technology operating model.
• Communicate status, risks, tradeoffs, and decisions to executive leadership with clarity and urgency in a fast-paced, high-visibility environment.
• Drive alignment with cross-TMRW Sports architectures leveraging common solutions where appropriate for scale and expediency.

Team Leadership, Vendors & Governance

• Build and lead a high-performing technology team.
• Drive vendor integration, contracting support, and day-to-day vendor management to ensure timely, cost-effective delivery while maintaining architectural integrity.
• Establish and enforce standards for quality, security, privacy, and scalability; ensure solutions meet governance requirements prior to launch.
• Own technical risk management, including testing strategy, resilience planning, and post-launch monitoring and continuous improvement.

• Bachelor’s degree required or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of leadership experience in sports technology development.
• Background leading complex systems integration programs with multiple vendors and internal teams (e.g., identity, data, mobile/web, venue/competition operations).
• Hands-on technical fluency in modern cloud architecture, security best practices, and scalable platform design.
• Experience building teams and delivery processes in a startup or zero-to-one environment.

Preferred:

• Experience launching and operating technology for live events, sports, media, or other high-availability environments where reliability on a fixed schedule is critical.
• Prior experience with American Football leagues a plus.

You’ll be successful if you:

• Are very hands on when needed, empowering when not, and know instinctively when to switch between the two.
• Are naturally optimistic and infect others with your optimism to collectively achieve great outcomes.
• Are collaborative with all stakeholders.
• Build a solid plan, often without all the necessary data, and lead a cross-discipline team to achieve the goal.
• Pivot from the plan when required to secure the overall outcome.
• Change your mind when new information is discovered.
• Inspire those around you to achieve greatness.
• Build team morale and maintain it even when the going gets tough.
• Absorb the stress, anxiety, and concerns of others, not amplify them.
• Occasionally pull rabbits out of hats.
• And have fun while doing it all.

Benefits:

• Equity ownership opportunities to allow employees to share in the company’s growth
• Unlimited discretionary time off along with 15 paid holidays per year (including the week of Independence Day)
• Comprehensive health insurance options, including a 100% contribution Employee coverage option
• Additional employee and family insurance coverage options with company contribution, including dental and vision
• FSA, HSA, and DCHSA opportunities including contribution matches
• Retirement options, including traditional 401(k) and Roth IRA plans.

*Benefits are subject to change at the company’s discretion.

TMRW Sports is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other factor protected by applicable law. This applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, and training.

TMRW Sports expressly prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

No matter what background you bring with you, if you are committed to excellence and good at what you do, we welcome you to apply to join us and encourage you to come as you are.

About TMRW Sports: (pronounced “tomorrow sports”)

TMRW Sports is focused on building modern approaches in sports, media, and entertainment. By creating new leagues for a new age, TMRW Sports is forging pathways and experiences for generations of fans. TMRW Sports’ first project, TGL presented by SoFi, is a primetime team golf league in partnership with the PGA TOUR that reaches 152 countries and territories worldwide and has been described as a “high-energy arena spectacle” by Vanity Fair, “pure entertainment” by GQ, and “golf’s boldest new venture” by Fast Company. Targeting a winter 2026-27 launch, WTGL will feature teams of the world’s best women golfers in partnership with the LPGA and has attracted investment from Alex Morgan’s Trybe Ventures. TMRW Sports is also developing plans for men’s and women’s professional flag football leagues in partnership with the National Football League and 32 Equity, the league’s collective investment vehicle. Founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, and sports executive Mike McCarley, TMRW Sports is supported by an influential and diverse investor group of athletes, celebrities and business leaders from the worlds of sports, media, technology and finance. For more, visit TMRWSportsGroup.com.