ContestedEngineering & Product
Build the workflows, tooling, and intelligence that make athlete-led campaigns faster to launch and easier to trust.
Marketplace UXAutomationAnalyticsInternal tools
Careers
Build
The system behind athlete-driven brand growth.
Contested sits at the intersection of marketplace UX, campaign execution, analytics, and trust. We are interested in people who want to solve messy problems, ship fast, and raise the bar for how athlete partnerships actually get done.
Product surface
Marketplace, workflows, measurement, trust
Operating style
Cross-functional, direct, and execution-heavy
Best fit
People who like turning ambiguity into working systems
Focus Areas
Where you can move the needle
We do not need generic resumes. We want to understand which lane you would sharpen and what kind of outcomes you are strong enough to own.
Growth & Storytelling
Sharpen how the company explains itself, attracts the right customers, and turns useful insight into demand.
PositioningLifecycleContentConversion
Brand Partnerships
Work directly on the commercial side of the platform, from onboarding and retention to campaign quality and expansion.
PipelineEnablementCampaign strategyCustomer success
Operations & Support
Design the systems that keep communication, quality control, payments, and edge cases from becoming friction.
Process designQAPaymentsEscalations
How We Work
Small-team standards with real operating pressure
This is not a page about perks theater. The appeal here is the chance to work on a product category that mixes storytelling, commerce, ops, and software in the same room.
Ownership
Ship the real thing
We care about output that improves campaigns, not handoffs that die in planning. Strong opinions matter when they turn into shipped work.
Clarity
Make complexity legible
Athlete partnerships touch multiple stakeholders, edge cases, and timelines. Clear writing and crisp systems are part of the product.
Proximity
Stay close to the customer
The best decisions usually come from direct exposure to the friction brands and athletes hit every day, not from abstract assumptions.
Hiring Flow
A simple process
If there is mutual fit, the process usually looks something like this. We keep it direct and try to spend time on real signal.
01
Intro
A short conversation about where you do your best work and which problems at Contested you would actually want to own.
02
Signal review
We usually look at a portfolio, writing sample, shipped work, or a tightly-scoped exercise instead of leaning on generic trivia.
03
Team conversation
You meet the people closest to the work so both sides can pressure-test judgment, communication, and execution style.
04
Scope and decision
If there is a fit, we align on the role, the highest-leverage problems, and how success would be measured early on.
Next Step
No perfect posting? Reach out anyway.
The strongest candidates usually know exactly what they would improve. If that is you, send a concise note, a few links, and the lane you would want to own.