Maintenance Technician

U.S. Soccer Overview

The U.S. Soccer Federation exists in service to soccer. Our aim is to ignite a national passion for the game. Because we believe that soccer is more than a sport; it is a force for good.

We understand the importance and the power of teamwork, on and off the pitch. That is why we work closely with our Federation partners and members, to inspire, support and guide every level of the game: from the grassroots to the National Teams. We want to bring soccer into every home and every community, right across America. Because we believe that soccer can transform lives like no other sport. Soccer can represent the best of U.S.

U.S. Soccer is in a period of significant growth, with ambitious plans for U.S. Soccer in the near and far future. We are, therefore, looking for dynamic servant leaders to join us on this journey: in service to soccer. Applicants must be able to demonstrate visionary leadership, analytical decision-making, professional flexibility, and an empathic management style that builds bold teams and delivers globally significant results.

Position Description

U.S. Soccer is seeking an experienced photographer to join our Men’s National Team content team as the team photographer. The MNT Photographer will be responsible for capturing and telling the story of our MNT players and staff through compelling imagery, highlighting The Best of U.S™.

This role leads still photography coverage for the MNT across all environments, including camps, matches, training sessions, and behind-the-scenes moments. The position owns the end-to-end photography process: shooting, editing, color grading, selecting, and delivering imagery optimized for real-time distribution and licensing across platforms.

There is a strong emphasis on speed to market, especially during camps and matchdays, ensuring content is delivered in real time to support social, editorial, and commercial objectives.

This individual will collaborate closely with Social Media, Brand and Creative, Media, Editorial, Content Strategy, and Partnership Marketing to ensure photography supports storytelling, audience growth, and revenue-driving initiatives including photo licensing, Insiders, ticket sales, and partner integrations.

While this role is dedicated to the MNT, it operates as part of a centralized content function and will support broader Federation photography needs during key moments and priority initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities

• Capture high-quality photography of USMNT camps, matches, training sessions, and off-field moments
• Deliver real-time and near real-time photo selects for distribution across social and owned platforms
• Edit, color correct, and optimize imagery for various formats, platforms, and audiences
• Curate and deliver photo selects for U.S. Soccer’s photo licensing and sales partner
• Collaborate with Social Media and Editorial teams to align on storytelling priorities and platform needs
• Execute content plans around camps and matches, ensuring full coverage of key moments and narratives
• Maintain and organize photo assets within U.S. Soccer’s digital asset management system
• Conceptualize and contribute to new content series and storytelling approaches in collaboration with Content Strategy
• Support commercial initiatives through photography, including photo licensing, partner content, Insiders growth, and ticket sales
• Stay current with industry trends, technology, and best practices in sports and editorial photography
• Travel extensively with the team, including domestic and international travel
• Cover other Federation events, camps and games as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional photography experience, preferably in sports or live event environments
• Proven ability to capture high-quality imagery in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
• Strong portfolio demonstrating storytelling through photography
• Expertise in DSLR/mirrorless camera systems and professional lenses
• Proficiency in Photo Mechanic (or equivalent), Adobe Lightroom, and Adobe Photoshop
• Familiarity with digital asset management systems
• Strong understanding of photo composition, lighting, and color grading
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects under tight deadlines
• General knowledge of soccer
• Must be able to connect “micro” details to the “macro” vision and mission
• Proficient experience with Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook)
• Ability to work non-traditional hours including nights, weekends, and holidays
• Willingness to travel up to 50% domestically and internationally
• Valid passport required

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with elite athletes or professional sports teams
• Understanding of content optimization across social and digital platforms
• Knowledge of soccer and its global landscape
• Experience capturing stylized, lifestyle photography

U.S. Soccer offers a comprehensive compensation package, casual work environment, an inclusive culture, and an atmosphere for professional development.

U.S. Soccer is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, military status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected under the law. This policy applies to all our employment practices within our organization. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA, veterans, parents, and persons with disabilities to apply.

U.S. Soccer Overview

The U.S. Soccer Federation exists in service to soccer. Our aim is to ignite a national passion for the game. Because we believe that soccer is more than a sport; it is a force for good.

We understand the importance and the power of teamwork, on and off the pitch. That is why we work closely with our Federation partners and members, to inspire, support and guide every level of the game: from the grassroots to the National Teams. We want to bring soccer into every home and every community, right across America. Because we believe that soccer can transform lives like no other sport. Soccer can represent the best of U.S.

U.S. Soccer is in a period of significant growth, with ambitious plans for U.S. Soccer in the near and far future. We are, therefore, looking for dynamic servant leaders to join us on this journey: in service to soccer. Applicants must be able to demonstrate visionary leadership, analytical decision-making, professional flexibility, and an empathic management style that builds bold teams and delivers globally significant results.

Position Description

The Senior Software Engineer will provide hands-on technical leadership for the shared platform capabilities that powers U.S. Soccer's Soccer Services and Learning Center experiences. This engineer will lead the design and delivery of reusable components, services, content models, and workflow patterns that can be composed across public, authenticated, learner, and administrator experiences serving coaches, referees, educators, Organization Members, players, parents, and other participants across the

country.

Based at U.S. Soccer’s National Training Center, this role will be a visible Product & Technology partner for Soccer Services and Learning Center stakeholders. The Senior Software Engineer will participate in planning and working sessions, translate operational and product needs into clear technical direction, communicate tradeoffs and delivery risk, and build trusted relationships across engineering, product, design, content and curriculum, data, and soccer operations.

The work spans education, course management, licensing and certification, member and organization services, registration and application workflows, safeguarding and compliance, content delivery, and administrative operations. This engineer will establish and extend proven patterns across clear boundaries between experience, content, identity, and operational systems; guide incremental modernization while protecting current service; and make U.S. Soccer’s design, accessibility, security, reliability, and performance standards the default.

This is a senior individual-contributor role for a systems-oriented full-stack engineer who combines architecture judgment with a willingness to work directly in the code. Depending on the product area, the engineer may work with technologies such as Go, PHP/Laravel, JavaScript and TypeScript, Sanity, PostgreSQL, Auth0/OIDC, AWS, containers and Kubernetes, messaging platforms, and CDN/edge delivery.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design and end-to-end delivery of production capabilities across Soccer.
• Services and the Learning Center—from discovery and architecture through implementation, testing, release, monitoring, and iteration.
• Serve as an in-person Product & Technology partner at the National Training Center; participate in stakeholder meetings, clarify complex requirements, surface dependencies and risks, and translate product and operational goals into practical delivery plans.
• Establish and evolve reusable platform building blocks—including user-interface components, service contracts, content models, templates, and workflow patterns—that solve shared problems and can be adopted consistently across products.
• Deliver learner-, member-, and administrator-facing experiences such as dashboards, course modules, video review, assessment and certification flows, renewals, progress tracking, in person clinic logistics, registration, eligibility, document review, approvals, and administrative tools.
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and code reviews, design facilitation, documentation, mentorship, and constructive feedback; help engineers make sound decisions and raise the quality and consistency of the team’s work.
• Design and operate backend services, APIs, data models, event-driven workflows, and integrations across identity, content, learning, member, analytics, and third-party systems, with clear contracts and strong auditability.
• Lead incremental modernization of existing workflows and integrations while maintaining compatibility, data integrity, and reliable service for current users.
• Set and uphold standards for automated testing, continuous delivery, observability, performance, scalability, resilience, accessibility, privacy, role-based access, and security; lead diagnosis and durable resolution of production incidents.
• Partner with engineering and product leadership on roadmaps, technical strategy, sequencing, estimation, staffing dependencies, and measurable outcomes while communicating decisions clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field.
• 7+ years of professional software-engineering experience building and operating production applications, including at least 3 years' operating at a senior or technical-lead level.
• Demonstrated success leading the design and delivery of complex full-stack systems across frontend, backend, APIs, data, integrations, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong HTML, CSS, and modern JavaScript or TypeScript skills, plus deep experience with at least one server-side language and relational data modeling.
• Experience designing maintainable service boundaries, web APIs, distributed or event-driven workflows, and integrations with identity or other enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, automated testing, version control, code review, continuous integration and delivery, observability, and safe production operations.
• Experience building secure, privacy-aware, responsive, and accessible digital experiences and protecting data integrity during migrations and integrations.
• Demonstrated ability to diagnose issues across application code, infrastructure, logs, metrics, and user-reported behavior; able to lead incident response and carry fixes safely into production.
• Track record of improving engineering practices and mentoring other engineers through clear technical direction, collaborative reviews, and constructive feedback.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to build trust with nontechnical partners, facilitate decisions, and explain tradeoffs in an in-person, cross-functional environment.
• Ability to work effectively from the National Training Center in a fast-moving environment, manage competing priorities, and connect implementation details to broader product and organizational goals.
• General knowledge of soccer and its ecosystem, or a demonstrated interest in learning it quickly.
• Must be able to connect “micro” details to the “macro” vision and mission.
• Proficient experience with Microsoft Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook).

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with technologies relevant to the current environment, such as Go, PHP/Laravel, JavaScript/TypeScript, Sanity or another headless CMS, PostgreSQL, Auth0/OIDC, or similar tools.
• Experience designing systems with CQRS and event sourcing, and building APIs that use JSON Patch or comparable standards for partial resource updates.
• Experience with distributed systems, asynchronous processing, and messaging or streaming platforms such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience deploying and operating cloud applications using AWS, containers, Kubernetes, CDN/edge services, and modern observability practices.
• Experience building learning-management, education, certification, membership, eligibility, compliance, document-review, or other multi-role workflow products.
• Experience with design systems, WCAG 2.1 AA, media-rich experiences, and products designed for low-bandwidth or older-device contexts.
• Experience integrating identity, content, CRM, analytics, or third-party platforms while maintaining data quality, security, and auditability.
• Background in or passion for soccer, sports, education, or membership-based organizations
• Spanish-language proficiency is a plus.

U.S. Soccer offers a comprehensive compensation package, casual work environment, an inclusive culture, and an atmosphere for professional development.

U.S. Soccer is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, military status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected under the law. This policy applies to all our employment practices within our organization. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA, veterans, parents, and persons with disabilities to apply.

U.S. Soccer Overview

The U.S. Soccer Federation exists in service to soccer. Our aim is to ignite a national passion for the game. Because we believe that soccer is more than a sport; it is a force for good.

We understand the importance and the power of teamwork, on and off the pitch. That is why we work closely with our Federation partners and members, to inspire, support and guide every level of the game: from the grassroots to the National Teams. We want to bring soccer into every home and every community, right across America. Because we believe that soccer can transform lives like no other sport. Soccer can represent the best of U.S.

U.S. Soccer is in a period of significant growth, with ambitious plans for U.S. Soccer in the near and far future. We are, therefore, looking for dynamic servant leaders to join us on this journey: in service to soccer. Applicants must be able to demonstrate visionary leadership, analytical decision-making, professional flexibility, and an empathic management style that builds bold teams and delivers globally significant results.

Position Description

U.S. Soccer is seeking a Coordinator, Content Operations to support the operational workflows and systems that power the Federation’s growing content ecosystem.

This role will support content production, project coordination, media asset management and production logistics across video, photography and post-production teams. They will help manage day-to-day workflows, maintain project organization and assist in ensuring content initiatives move efficiently from intake through delivery and archival.

The Coordinator, Content Operations will also support the organization and management of the Federation’s media libraries across platforms including Iconik and PhotoShelter, helping ensure assets are properly archived, tagged and accessible for future use.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented and eager to grow within a fast-paced content and production environment. This individual should be comfortable managing multiple projects simultaneously, collaborating across departments and helping support operational processes that enable efficient, high-quality content production across the Federation.

Primary Responsibilities

Content Operations & Project Management

• Support the day-to-day management of the department’s content intake and project tracking workflows
• Assist in coordinating timelines, deliverables and project communication across content initiatives Help maintain project trackers, production schedules and operational calendars
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders across video, social media, editorial, photography and strategy teams to support content execution
• Help ensure projects are properly organized, scoped and operationalized throughout the production lifecycle
• Assist in identifying workflow bottlenecks and operational inefficiencies, escalating issues as needed
• Support departmental organization and operational documentation, including templates, workflows and process tracking

Media Asset Management (MAM/DAM)

• Support the day-to-day organization and maintenance of media asset management systems, including Iconik and PhotoShelter
• Assist with media ingest, tagging, metadata entry and archival workflows across photo and video assets
• Help maintain consistent file naming conventions, folder structures and metadata standards
• Support asset retrieval requests and content distribution workflows for internal stakeholders
• Assist in maintaining organized, searchable and accessible media libraries across Federation content

Production Logistics & Photography Operations

• Assist with production logistics, including vendor coordination, scheduling support, releases, clearances and production preparation
• Help coordinate photography assignments, shot lists and coverage schedules
• Support equipment coordination, file delivery and production organization as needed
• Assist with freelancer and vendor communication for content productions
• Support operational workflows tied to content delivery and asset distribution

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in content operations, production coordination, media management or related fields
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Experience managing multiple projects and deadlines in fast-paced environments
• Familiarity with Digital Asset Management (DAM) and/or Media Asset Management (MAM) systems such as Iconik, PhotoShelter or similar platforms
• Understanding of content production workflows across video, photography and digital media
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• General knowledge of soccer
• Capable of working in fast-paced and demanding environments
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and project management tool
• Ability to work independently while supporting multiple stakeholders and priorities
• Must be able to connect "micro" details to the "macro" vision and mission
• Willingness to work non-traditional hours and travel as needed

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working within sports, media, entertainment or agency environments
• Familiarity with video production, photography or post-production workflows
• Experience supporting project management or production operations
• Understanding of metadata organization and archival best practices
• Experience coordinating production logistics or photography operations
• Spanish language proficiency is a plus
• Understanding of U.S. Soccer and its content ecosystem

U.S. Soccer offers a comprehensive compensation package, casual work environment, an inclusive culture, and an atmosphere for professional development.

U.S. Soccer is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind on the basis of race, color, sex, religion, national origin, citizenship, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, military status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected under the law. This policy applies to all our employment practices within our organization. We strongly encourage women, people of color, LGBTQIA, veterans, parents, and persons with disabilities to apply.