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Whew didn’t expect this to get posted here but I’m not complaining!

I’m Chris, Head of Analytics at Arsenal and hiring manager for this role (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-dove-43b7a85)

I’m happy to answer any questions about the role, our department, football analytics, working at Arsenal, etc.

Hi Chris, first of all best of luck with the project, I'm a lifelong supporter so I hope the work you guys are doing will help us get to that 14th title soon!

I also work in IT, albeit in a different field, mostly with Kubernetes clusters, DevOps tools and private clouds. Is your team working with these technologies, does Arsenal have some separate team for this sort of infrastructure-related work? I won't lie, from time to time I check Arsenal job postings but I never once saw anything related to the infra, which is why I'm asking.

Hey Chris. This is such an incredible opportunity and great to hear folks like you are spearheading the charge. I’ve a friend who’s leading AI at Real Madrid and it’s fascinating to hear what they’re trying to do (without him revealing the secret sauce to me!)

Does your team and department taking of analytics primarily on the footballing side? Like player performance? How does your teams work typically get incorporated and what does the day to day look like? Do you manage your own tech stack as well?

Is there any hope of AI improving dubious refereeing ?

As in, perhaps decisions about unexpected red cards ?

Do you offer any internships? I know a great PhD candidate that's worked on sports video analytics.
If you could conjure up any data or video product from thin air to make your life easier, what would it be?
The thing about arsenal is, they always try and walk it in!
This always makes me laugh https://grathium-industries.github.io/posts/deployments/bluf...
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
not any more, now the thing about Arsenal is that it's all set pieces and over-reliance on corners.

Saka isn't all that either, he'd be nothing within Odegaard.

(this is convincing, and I know about as much as the IT Crowd did)

https://youtu.be/Sasksdm1Ftc fantastic episode.
Under Mikel, they're more Tony "rainy night at Stoke" Pulis than Arsene "walk it in" Wenger.
You beat me to it. Nicely done!
The slider only goes to £150,000 per annum.

Good luck with your search!

I'm not going to underestimate the dedication of football fans. And I do feel someone could get by on £150k if they had to. Obviously they'd need to live an ascetic lifestyle, eating only porridge and drinking only lukewarm water. With luck they'd make it through winter.
It's still crazy to me that 150K can be considered an unsatisfactory salary. I thought that must be enough anywhere in the world.
This is an exceptional salary for the UK.
That's extremely good for a job in soccer analytics. It's a really fun domain, you'd be working with very smart and bought-in people at Arsenal, and they have their own collection operation so control their own destiny in a way a lot of other places don't.
Season tickets would likely motivate a lot of supporters with the right background to apply despite the low salary. But they only offer “preferred access” to tickets and I’m not even sure what that means.

If there would be opportunities to present to Mikel Arteta and other high level football personnel, that would also be very motivating beyond raw salary.

This would be the dream job for a gunners fan. After a decade of making seven figures at Meta/Google etc., they won't even look at the salary.
The salary ranges in London are different than the US.
Better off getting a pro contract with them I guess
Isn’t that an incredibly good salary in the UK?
150k GBP total comp is not especially competitive with a BigCo.

If that is just salary though, it might be competitive in London depending on the rest of the comp package (i.e. about the same again for equity, 20-25% bonus - so total about 300-325k GBP - would be Ok for mid/senior level IME)

Sports analytics is a lot like video game development. Where, for better or for worse, salaries are much lower because pure passion for the domain is a huge motivator for people
uk salaries.

the average UK salary is £32k. in London your average midlevel engineer salary band is 60-75k. Senior band is 75-110 - this includes principles and directors as well. For total comp add 10% of bonus. given anemic uk tech sector most stock is yeah worthless so let's not count it - unless you work for Wise, Revolut etc.

the people making big bucks i.e £200k+ in tech - are in finance / hft / trading firms. then in government consulting.

man, I am so poor
Yes, if you value your knowledge you should keep pushing for higher the market has enough elasticity as earnings show
Fun fact, that's probably the median weekly wage for the Arsenal players themselves.
Like for their players, they propose reasonable salaries, never too high, makes sense
London's an expensive place to live.
You do realize that American salaries are not the norm internationally? The pay in Europe is far far far lower.
I have a few reasons I want to go to the UK, and seeing an Arsenal game at their home stadium is one of them. It's not so much that it's my favorite team as that I (1) want to see a Premier League game, (2) their stadium looks beautiful and (3) I enjoy watching games from there because they are better equipped than average for telecasts.
It's a great stadium and loads of fun to visit as a gooner. Not all games are open to all though. Some require you to be a Red Member for a while before you can buy tickets. So keep that in mind.
Arsenal are doing very innovative things in AI and I believe have Karun Singh on their team who is extremely influential in the football analytics revolution that has occurred over the last decade. Exciting role (that due to other interests I cannot go for!)
I’m an Arsenal fan living in Australia, so I often watch the games the next day because they’re on very late at night our time. Until I’ve watched the game I keep off social media to avoid spoilers, and HN is one of the few things I’m very confident in reading knowing that nothing related to Arsenal FC would ever ever get posted here. Go figure.
There’s a typo on your page: “you’ll partner with with coaches”

Other than that, pretty cool to see. I’ll have to pass :)

Repeated word typos are incredibly difficult to spot. I genuinely had to reread your post several times before I got the typo.
I live 500m from Arsenal stadium. Unfortunately not only do I know nothing about football, I'm just a lowly data person and would never purport to be an AI specialist.
The burning question: will Brad Pitt star in the move that gets made about this.
Apparently knowledge about football/soccer is not a prerequisite.
It's not, although some football knowledge and interest in the game certainly helps.
A 30k job in Italy.
Those are some serious job requirements for $150k
£150K is more than 4x the average salary in the UK.