WORK OPTION: The NBA currently provides eligible employees the option of working remotely one day per week.
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Position Summary
This position plays a key role in supporting the overall customer experience for NBA and WNBA digital products across multiple platforms, including mobile applications, web, and connected devices. The Project Employee, Customer Experience Operations role works closely with the NBA and WNBA customer support organization to ensure support agents are informed, prepared, and equipped to deliver timely and effective assistance to fans.
Working alongside the 24/7 Digital Operations Center, this role provides night-to-night monitoring and real-time oversight of digital products, helping identify, validate, and escalate fan-reported issues as they arise. The focus is on maintaining strong communication between product, engineering, operations, and the global customer support team to ensure issues impacting fans are quickly understood and addressed. By coordinating incident tracking, verifying reported issues, and sharing actionable insights, this role helps prioritize fixes, improve internal response processes, and ensure clear, consistent communication back to NBA and WNBA fans, ultimately enhancing the end-to-end customer experience.
This is a 10-month project employee position based out of the NBA’s Secaucus, New Jersey Office.
Major Responsibilities
- Quality control of the NBA and WNBA’s digital products across all supported platforms
- Document, investigate, and escalate product and business issues to be addressed by NBA and WNBA stakeholders
- Conduct QA of the customer support teams to ensure quality standards are met
- Create reports around customer support insights, key initiatives, and product performance
- Interface with support agents and team leads in real time to address feedback and issues identified by fans
- Monitor fan inquiries in Zendesk and sentiment on message boards and social media to report on and address feedback relating to our digital products
- Complete data-driven research projects on digital products to support opportunities for innovation
- Evaluate non-NBA digital offerings from across the sports and streaming landscape
- Flexible working hours to support evening and weekend customer-aligned activities
Required Education/Professional Experience
- Bachelor's degree required
Required Skills/Knowledge Attributes
- Strong research and analytical skills
- Good multi-tasking and project management skills
- Ability to work in fast-paced environments
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Willingness to learn and master multiple digital products
- Passion for delivering world-class online, mobile, and application experiences for sports fans
- Comfortable proposing new ideas among various internal stakeholders and business units, and collaborating with design, technical, programming, marketing, and sales teams
- Experience creating reports and presentations via PowerPoint
- Experience with Zendesk or other customer support tools
- Familiarity with the digital analytics; how to evaluate product performance, and visualization tools is a plus (e.g. Adobe, Tableau)
- Knowledge of and passion for basketball
- Knowledge of the current digital sports and technology landscape
- Familiarity with various premium sports packages inside and outside the NBA
- Familiarity with all platforms, including web, mobile web, iOS, Android, game consoles and connected TVs
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical; short-term disability; mental health coaching/therapy; and sick time.
Eligibility Note: Not all positions are eligible for these benefits; eligibility may vary by role.
Salary Range
$32/Hourly
Job Posting Title
Project
We Consider Applicants For All Positions On The Basis Of Merit, Qualifications And Business Needs, And Without Regard To Race, Color, National Origin, Religion, Sex, Gender Identity, Age, Disability, Alienage Or Citizenship Status, Ancestry, Marital Status, Creed, Genetic Predisposition Or Carrier Status, Sexual Orientation, Veteran Status, Familial Status, Status As A Victim Of Domestic Violence Or Any Other Status Or Characteristic Protected By Applicable Federal, State, Or Local Law.
The NBA is committed to providing a safe and healthy workplace. To safeguard our employees and their families, our visitors, and the broader community from COVID-19, and in consideration of recommendations from health authorities and the NBA’s own advisors, any individual working onsite in our New York and New Jersey offices must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. The NBA will discuss accommodations for individuals who cannot be vaccinated due to a medical reason or sincerely held religious belief, practice, or observance.
About The NBA
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a global sports and media organization with the mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Built around five professional sports leagues: the NBA, WNBA, NBA G League, NBA 2K League and Basketball Africa League, the NBA has established a major international presence with games and programming available in 214 countries and territories in 60 languages, and merchandise for sale in more than 200 countries and territories on all seven continents. NBA rosters at the start of the 2024-25 season featured a record-tying 125 international players from a record-tying 43 countries. NBA Digital’s assets include NBA TV, NBA.com, the NBA App and NBA League Pass. The NBA has created one of the largest social media communities in the world, with more than 2.3 billion likes and followers globally across all leagues, team and player platforms. NBA Cares, the NBA’s global social responsibility platform, partners with renowned community-based organizations around the world to address important social issues in the areas of education, inclusion, youth and family development, and health and wellness.
