Kognia is transforming football with AI-powered tactical data. Our platform delivers automated insights directly from match video — helping clubs, federations, and agencies make smarter decisions and elevate performance. With strong early traction across elite football and an expanding presence in Europe and the Americas, we’re scaling our commercial operations.
Kognia Sports is looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist to take ownership of applying our tactical data to real football environments and support our commercial objectives
This is not a pure research role. This role is focused on Kognia’s complex tactical datasets and turning them into practical tools and insights that recruitment teams, analysts, and sporting directors use every day.
An understanding of how decisions are made inside clubs and how data influences those decisions are a must.
Translate Kognia’s data into recruitment and tactical frameworks.
Build role-based and position-specific player benchmarks.
Create comparative league models to support cross-league recruitment.
Knowledge of key analysis tools & dashboards including but not limited to :
SQL
Tableau
Power BI
Python
R
Dbt (Nice to have)
Structure data warehouse views that support deep-dive analysis.
Ensure insights are usable inside real club workflows.
Able to write code, in R/Python, to create custom visuals and interrogate data.
Strong problem-solving skills, including technology-based issues, and attention to detail.
Work closely with product and engineering to improve data usability.
Support commercial conversations where technical validation is required.
Help ensure our outputs remain aligned with the realities of the football market.
Innovation & continuous iImprovement: Stay up to date with the latest trends in football data analytics and technology and recommend new methodologies to enhance insights delivery.
Act as a Kognia brand champion, representing the company across commercial initiatives, industry conferences, marketing activations and leading internal education activities.
Qualifications
5+ years working inside a professional football club or sports analytics company.
Strong understanding of recruitment, scouting, and tactical analysis processes.
Advanced SQL skills and experience building in Tableau or Power BI.
Experience working with event and/or tracking data.
Clear understanding of how data fits into day-to-day football decision-making.
Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex insights simply
English Speaking. German/Spanish/French (Nice to have)
Work with cutting-edge AI in a product that’s changing how football is understood
Strategic role in a company entering a phase of international expansion
High-impact, client-facing position with growth and equity potential
Join a global, football-obsessed team passionate about innovation and impact
Kognia Sports Intelligence is a Barcelona-based start-up that is redefining how football clubs and federations harness tactical data to improve performance.
Delivered through a single feed, our AI-powered platform provides deep, contextual, tactical insights that can support professional football clubs to elevate player development, scout and recruit player, and integrate within performance analysis processes, from academy through to first-team.
Kognia blends firsthand expertise from the professional game with world-class artificial intelligence. Our proprietary systems automatically detect, analyse and distribute advanced tactical metrics, integrating event and tracking data to give teams a richer, more actionable understanding of the game.
Kognia co-founders Maurici A. Lopez-Feliz (CEO) and Henry Harrison (CTO) bring academic excellence along with Maurici's experience within professional football, notably as Head of Research at the Methodology Department at FC Barcelona. Their shared academic experiences studying ecological physics at the University of Connecticut and respective backgrounds have contributed to shaping one of foundational beliefs at Kognia: that soccer can be understood through a principled, systemic lens and our technology can make those AI-driven insights accessible and actionable at scale.
