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Man Utd will look to bolster a key area of their club this year and are hiring for three new roles.
Manchester United are looking to continue the overhaul of their data department with three new roles this year.
United have placed job adverts for a senior football data engineer, a senior football data scientist and a senior software engineer. The new hires come after Michael Sansoni joined as director of data in the summer and was tasked with modernising the club's data department.
Sansoni joined the club after an 11-year spell with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team, where he helped the team win eight world championships and worked as a senior performance engineer. He reports to United chief executive Omar Berrada and was tasked with transforming the club’s capabilities in data and artificial intelligence.
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He has also been tasked with transforming United into a data-led organisation, embedding predictive and AI-driven decision-making across football and the wider club. When he joined the club in July 2025, United stated he would be supported by further recruitment into a range of data, software, and platform engineering roles in the coming months.
United hiring three new data roles
Manchester United have officially placed job adverts for the roles of a senior football data engineer, a senior football data scientist and a senior software engineer. The successful candidates will work under Michael Sansoni as United look to improve their operations.
For all three of the advertised jobs, United's job descriptions remains the same: "You’ll be part of the Data & AI Team, playing a key role in the club’s transformation into a fully data-driven organisation. The team delivers powerful insights, builds trusted data products, and operates modern data platforms that enable better decisions and success on and off the pitch."
Those successful will be based at the club's Carrington training complex, which underwent a £50million refurbishment last year. United's overhaul of the data department comes after co-owner Jim Ratcliffe criticised their previous approach to analytics. “Until we are as good as anyone in the world, then it’s not good enough for Manchester United. We must have the best recruitment in the world," he told United We Stand fanzine.
"Data analysis comes alongside recruitment. It doesn’t really exist here. We’re still in the last century on data analysis here. There’s an immense amount of useful data that we can get from data analysis and we’re in the 'very poor' bracket with data analysis here. These things don’t happen overnight. You can’t just flick a light switch and sort out recruitment. It’s all about people and we need to find the right people.”
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