Research Analyst

At Sorare, we bet on passionate and innovative people! Are you looking for an empowering environment to grow professionally and personally? Join us in this tremendous adventure!

Our Mission

Sorare is a fantasy sports gaming experience and marketplace featuring officially licensed digital player cards. With Sorare you build legacy teams –  buying, selling, collecting and trading player cards -- and compete with them in free-to-play fantasy games to win rewards week over week and season over season, just like a professional sports owner.

Sorare is revolutionizing digital sports fandom, and now has over 3,5 million users across 180 countries. More than 300 iconic teams, clubs, and organizations including the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A, MLS, NBA, NBPA, MLB, MLBPA, and many others have partnered with Sorare to build the next sports entertainment giant.

Our Journey

Sorare was founded by Nicolas Julia and Adrien Montfort in 2018 in Paris to bring sports fans across the globe closer to the players, teams, and leagues they love.

With 130-plus employees across France and US, Sorare is one of Europe’s fastest-growing startups and recently raised a $680 million Series B funding round from world-class investors including SoftBank, Accel, and Benchmark. Sorare also has athletes Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Rio Ferdinand, Antoine Griezmann, Gerard Piqué, Blake Griffin, and Rudy Gobert among its investors, ambassadors, and advisors.

Our Values

• Own your game: Think and act like an owner, and expect your teammates to do the same. You are an “entrepreneur” empowered to make decisions and own the outcomes.

• Build with the fans, and for the fans: Have an obsession for high-quality user experiences. Engage our community with transparency to build trust and learn from the fans to deliver effective changes.

• Run fast: Take bold risks and outpace the competition in an ever changing environment. Have a bias for action (connected to team goals) and strive to ship and iterate.

• Have fun and bring joy: Sports have the power to unite people around the world, and as fans ourselves, we believe it is a privilege to work in this industry.

• Win as a team: We are all in this together as one team, win or lose. Inspire your teammates to always be better.

Sorare is seeking a Research Analyst to join the Research team. Sorare’s Research team plays a critical role, supporting user research and consumer insights for the Product and Design teams, as well as Marketing and Creative. 

As a Research Analyst you will coordinate primarily with the Sorare Product and Design teams to identify research opportunities, set research goals, and design and execute studies, as well as socialize results throughout the company. Sorare is a collaborative and team oriented environment. You will work as a key contributor on many research initiatives, while also having the opportunity to lead your own, to represent the voice of Sorare users and sports fans around the world.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a researcher looking to sharpen their practitioner skill set, work with a variety of methodologies, have the freedom to experiment with new approaches, and have a meaningful impact on a maturing product within a new consumer space. 

An ideal candidate will have experience with and/or interest in multiple research methodologies. Experience working in video games or sports media is a plus.

Responsibilities: 

• Collaborate with Product Managers and other key stakeholders to identify, develop, and refine research objectives and methodologies

• Support the Research Team on large scale research initiatives, playing a key role in execution throughout the entire research process

• Lead research projects start to finish, including initial design, recruiting, data collection, analysis, and reporting

• Conduct both quantitative and qualitative research efforts

  • Plan, conduct, and report on play tests and user interviews with current Sorare users as well as potential new users

  • Design, program, field, analyze, and report on surveys of Sorare users

  • Note that experience in both quantitative and qualitative research is not required - this role offers training and development opportunities

• Develop close relationships with Sorare’s Data, Player Experience, and Community teams to ensure the Sorare organization has a complete 360 degree understanding of its users

• Identify opportunities for the Sorare research team to improve efficiency, quality, and impact

Requirements: 

• 3-5 years of experience within user research, consumer insights, or market research

• Experience in video games or sports media a plus

• Strong skills in executing either qualitative and/or quantitative research methodologies

• Fluency in standard qualitative and/or quantitative research tools / platforms (eg., Qualtrics)

• Ability to find learnings and tell a compelling story with the use of data

• Ability to understand business needs and identify research methodologies to address those needs

• Ability to synthesize research findings into actionable and digestible reporting

• A team player who collaborates with empathy and respect

• Accountable self starter who can work independently towards objectives

• Excellent written and verbal communication (English fluency required; French, German, and/or Spanish fluency a plus)

Our Hiring Process

• Step 1: Recruiter Screen (30 min)

• Step 2: Hiring Manager Screen

• Step 3: Case Study + Panel interviews

• Step 4: Reference Check & Offer

Sorare is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to: race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

As we are an international company, please note we speak English in the workplace. Please apply for the role with an English CV so we can process your application.