Overview:
We are seeking a detail‑oriented and highly organized professional to join our Football Operations team as a Football Operations Manager. This role supports day‑to‑day football operations across multiple departments and plays a key role in logistics, team travel, scheduling, and communication. The position works closely with internal football groups, external partners, and hotel/venue representatives to ensure seamless execution of football‑related operations throughout the year.
Key Responsibilities:
Day-to-Day
The Football Operations department supports all football departments including Coaching, Personnel, Video, Equipment, Athletic Training, and Player Engagement. We do this by:
Maintaining Teamworks, logistics application. Through Teamworks we manage all football profiles, provide the daily and weekly schedule, message out pertinent information, and maintain information databases
Acting as a football liaison for facility and stadium events to assist with necessary approvals and execution when needed and to keep the football departments informed as new events are approved
Assisting the football personnel department in offseason programs including the NFL Draft and Combine
Assist with football specific messaging and logistics with player, coach, and staff families for gamedays and events
Local Hotel Logistics:
In this role, you will serve as the main point of contact for the home hotel for all Home Games, Training Camp, and Mini Camp. In this capacity, you will handle:
Creating and Updating detailed rooming lists for all teams stays
Serving as the primary liaison, working with the hotel’s main sales contact and convention services manager to execute the stays
Executing home game stays. This includes monitoring check-in and ensuring the meeting spaces and meal room are properly prepared ahead of time
Reconciling invoices and payment following the completion of the stay
In addition to group stays, you will also coordinate hotel logistics for incoming free agents, rookies, try out players, staff, and guests throughout the year with the partner hotel and select hotels in the local area
Road Games:
Assist the DFO in organizing and executing road game operations including:
Working with the airline/airport to ensure smooth ground operations. This entails being an active participant on game week pre-cons meetings, linking up timing with bus and equipment truck arrivals, and checking TSA setups
Acting in a liaison capacity for guests and VIPs associated with the trip
Monitoring event execution on team arrival during the stay
Various duties as assigned on gameday
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Sports Management, Business Administration, Hospitality, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- 3-5 years of experience in football operations, team travel, athletics administration, event operations, or hospitality/logistics.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, high‑demand environment, ideally in professional or collegiate sports.
- This role is on-site with seasonal expectations,
- Willingness to work extended hours, evenings, weekends, holidays, Training Camp, and all home/road games as needed.
- Ability to travel with the team and lift/move items as required for operations.
The Los Angeles Chargers are committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive work environment that reflects our incredibly diverse fan base. We provide an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all employees and applicants without regard to ancestry, race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We believe diversity and inclusion among our employees is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
