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Careers at ActiveXchange

 Join our growing team and make an impact in shaping more active communities, globally.

Why work with us

We are ActiveXchange, a multi award-winning, passionate and rapidly expanding data technology company serving the sport, physical activity, and recreation industry across the UK, Canada, USA, Australia and New Zealand. We support recreation facilities, provincial and national sports, municipalities and governments, and retail brands and agencies as they use data and business intelligence to make evidence-based decisions to grow active communities all over the globe.

Our connected network securely brings data together on millions of participants and members every day to help client teams make more informed and connected planning, operational and investment decisions. 

Be part of a mission-driven team creating more active and engaged communities

Work flexibly, with a remote-first approach alongside a team hub

Grow in a global network spanning Canada, the UK, Australia & New Zealand

Collaborate with passionate people across data, tech and community impact

Current opportunities

Mission: To unlock the value of data for sports, governments and brands, and with this shape more active and engaged communities.

Across the APAC region ActiveXchange collaborates with approximately 500 client partners, the majority of which use the ActiveXchange data intelligence platform to inform important planning, investment and operational decisions, and shape funding and commercial partnerships. ActiveXchange is responsible for securely processing and enhancing data on over 5 million sport and recreation member and participant records across Australasia, transforming this into exciting and high impact intelligence. This is unique and unprecedented within the region. And we’re only just at the start of the journey!

ActiveXchange’s primary regions are APAC (with a focus on Australia and New Zealand), UK and Europe, and North America.

The opportunity

This requires a proven industry leader who has a deep appreciation and interest in establishing a precedent for how data can be better leveraged throughout community sport, and how the sport sector can better align itself and collaborate with commercial partners (as well as all tiers of government). The next phase of the ActiveXchange’s strategic plan is heavily focused on driving commercial opportunities and returns for sport at scale through the progressive and joined-up use of data.

Applicants for this role should have existing experience of working at or with national sport/government partners and commercial brands/agencies (ideally on the rights buyer side), and have a solid understanding of the current and emerging data, digital media and marketing needs of these organisations. Experience relating to sponsorship and digital rights is also advantageous.

As the Executive General Manager (APAC) you are responsible for driving strategic and commercial outcomes across the region, developing and leading the existing team. This involves delivering against budget and strategy and achieving year-on-year uplift through new business, market share expansion and existing customer success.

You will confidently represent the organisation at regional and national-level events and conferences. As a leader in the industry you will continue to shape ActiveXchange’s network of partners and clients across APAC, focusing on how value and cross-industry collaboration can be discovered and scaled. This will involve creating working groups, consulting with industry peers and professionals and presenting in a variety of forums.

This is also an opportunity to work closely alongside ActiveXchange’s network of existing in-market advisors and associates, including Alexandra Ash (Chair of ActiveXchange APAC and CEO of YMCA Australia), XV Capital Advisory (Stirling Mortlock and James Godfrey), James Ellender (Head of Fandom, AFL) and Simon Haire (government sport advisor).

Key responsibilities

Leadership and strategy

  • You will provide visible leadership to the commercial team in the region, leading from the front with a bias to action and execution.
  • You will actively contribute and develop the strategy for the APAC region which feeds into ActiveXchange’s global plans. This will involve working closely with other regional leaders and the Executive team to ensure ActiveXchange continues to be a market leader.

Commercial and customer

  • You will own and track performance against regional budget, set with the CEO and other regional GMs, and approved by the Group Board.
  • You will identify new customers and markets, using your deep network and understanding of the broad impact of ActiveXchange’s products and services to help connect customers with solutions.
  • You will lead pipeline management and ensure that there is a consistent approach to fostering and creating new opportunities.
  • You will build, maintain and create impactful customer relationships across the region, understanding the issues that customers are facing and use this to drive better outcomes.
  • You will continue to stay informed around the power of data, competitors and potential collaborators in the industry and their offerings.

Team and people

  • You will help to bring a consistency to the commercial approach within the region, coaching and developing existing staff to ensure they track to budget and focus on creating, developing and executing opportunities.
  • You will promote a collaborative and inclusive approach to problem solving, ensuring that existing knowledge and expertise are well balanced with a view forward. 
  • You will represent the needs of the region when working with internal Group services, including marketing, product and finance.

Key relationships

You will work with a broad variety of stakeholders, both internal and external, across the industry. Internally this is working with all levels of the business from the executive (Board and C-level) through to specialists in customer, data, technology, finance and marketing.

Externally, here is a non-exhaustive list of the type of stakeholders you will foster and nurture relationships with:

  • National Sporting Organisations
  • Peak bodies
  • Government agencies
  • Rights holders, leagues and events (including professional sport)
  • Retail brands and partners
  • Local government departments
  • Regional partnerships
  • Facility operators
  • Consultants and strategic partners
  • Industry associations
  • ActiveXchange associate advisors and ambassadors

Requirements of this role

  • Develop, implement, and maintain budgetary and resource allocation plans for the region, including setting and tracking annual budgets.
  • Ensure all day-to-day systems operate smoothly and align with our quality standards through collaboration with the Executive team and other regional GMs (achieving consistency and best practice sharing between regions).
  • Ensure Group policies and procedures are maintained in the region, and the use of corporate templates is adopted (legal, security, branding etc).
  • Coordinate day-to-day project management and coordination of new and existing projects and initiatives ensuring prioritisation of tasks across the whole team and to the mutual benefit of all involved – this will involve working closely with the COO where shared global resources are required.
  • Outline risks and mitigation strategies to keep projects on track and work closely with cross-functional team members for hand-offs.
  • Proactively support Finance to ensure debtors pay on time to aid cash flow.
  • Lead on regional thought leadership communications and support Group material where this can be associated with regional opportunities and/or progress.
  • Continually assess team performance (including resourcing costs related to different types of outputs) and drive a set of data led processes to increase efficiencies and commercial returns.
  • Identify potential funding opportunities from within your region and work to progress these alongside the Group Executive.
  • Report into quarterly Board meetings on the performance, future plans and requirements of your region.
  • Attend and often speak at a range of industry events.
  • International travel – at least once a year from FY25 we will coordinate in-person leadership workshops to advance the strategic plan – this may require travel to US/Canada/UK.

What you bring to the role

  • Proven commercial experience leading and growing teams and achieving budgets, ideally within the APAC sporting, data, media and/or commercial landscapes.
  • A demonstrable track record of setting realistic budgets and hitting targets both individually and as a team leader.
  • Great relationships with customers and a broad network, you enjoy the company of customers and colleagues within professional settings and are genuinely motivated to find solutions for them.
  • A desire to inspire, collaborate and think strategically to solve problems and turn those solutions into commercial opportunities where appropriate.
  • Enthusiasm and energy in how you approach your professional work, with a strong bias to action.

How will you succeed?

  • There will be a clear commercial focus to the role, both in setting and achieving realistic budgets, but also in creating new opportunities.
  • Setting a strategy with the broader team, having a plan to execute it and consistently doing so.
  • Growing and nurturing networks, through understanding how value can be created and shared.

Remuneration

  • Highly competitive salary, staff benefits, and with potential for share options based on personal and business performance. Start date is negotiable, ideally by start 2026.

  • Location is flexible although we are considering hybrid options to bring the team together regularly. 

Next steps

If of interest, please reach out with a cover email and CV to Rich Boyle, Group COO: [email protected] 

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Do you love sports, leisure, and recreation? Are you passionate about leveraging data to drive decision making and achieve goals?

An exciting opportunity for a talented and proven .NET developer to join the team at ActiveXchange and drive the development of the ActiveXchange platform impacting the active lives of millions of people across the globe. Read on!

The role

The Full Stack Developer at ActiveXchange is a full-time remote-first role responsible for delivery of product roadmap scopes, third-party integrations, seek/define/implement UI/UX enhancements, and act as a trusted advisor to Product leadership to steer future product evolution.

The Full Stack Developer will work closely with a cross-functional team including Product, Data, and Client Success to develop, implement and communicate complex technical matters in a clear and understandable way, and understand the impact of application in sports, recreation and leisure across our global network of clients.

  • Ideal for a mid-level+ developer with ambition for more responsibility and leadership in delivery of projects.
  • Work with the latest technology (Azure Stack, .NET) and ongoing investment into the latest data and cloud software.
  • Join our growing team, be part of a global sport and recreation data tech company. 
  • Remote-first team & ability to work from anywhere within the UK, Canada or Australia – some travel (including international) may be required. 
  • Shape an industry approach and empower a platform to positively influence people being more active, more often.

 

You will:
  1. Be confident and knowledgeable, with working full stack experience, being able to reliably deliver both front end (Angular / Typescript) and back-end projects, on-time and meeting/exceeding expectations. You MUST take pride in and a sense of responsibility to the products you deliver, understanding their critical role to the end-user (including UI/UX). Using “the right tool for the job” to deliver exceptional UX in achieving the desired outcomes.
  2. Apply strong architectural skills in designing and building complex systems, with a proven ability to translate user stories into solid, well architected solutions following principles and practices such as DRY and SOLID.
  3. Ensure quality and accuracy of work product; conducting and participating in code peer-reviews (QC/QA) and UAT process.
  4. Continuously maintain a deep understanding of our products and solutions to be a subject matter expert (internal) for Product leadership.
  5. Interpret and apply Product goals, objectives, and requirements. Identify and analyse functional requirements and produce cohesive functional scoping for development. Track and report on progress. Enable customer value through timely delivery of Product scopes.
  6. Deliver third-party integration applications (via APIs) conforming with the platform data specifications and requirements. Owning relationships with third-party software vendors, enabling collaborative work to ensure reliable data extracts.
  7. Produce cohesive and efficient documentation for knowledge sharing; when designing/improving processes, procedures, standards, etc.
  8. Work closely with other functions such as Product, Data and Analytics, and Commercial to ensure a smooth journey for our customers during all stages of their lifecycle. Providing technical support, triage, and resolution to platform technical issues.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional experience developing in C# – .NET is mandatory with a solid understanding of OOP principles (only candidates with .NET experience will be considered).
  • Proficiency (and broad skill sets) across tools associated with cloud-native software platforms, including and not limited to;
    1. Functional understanding of databases and querying data (SQL Server).
    2. Working within Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code.
    3. Source control management with Git hosted in Azure DevOps.
    4. CI/CD pipelines using yaml managed in Azure DevOps.
    5. Microsoft Azure stack tools (MS accreditation/certification desirable).
    6. All aspects of consuming SOAP / REST API.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent experience is a plus.
  • Excellent at cultivating and leveraging strong technical working relationships, both internally and externally.  Experience working in a global multinational context is a plus.
  • Work experience in agile and waterfall work methodologies, delivering daily updates on development activities in a hybrid delivery environment.  
  • Technical professional fluency in English (speaking, reading, writing). Must convey information clearly and concisely, while demonstrating the ability to understand the same. 
  • Experience working with Google Productivity suite, Slack, and ClickUp or similar productivity systems.

Our ideal candidate

  • Self-motivated and reliable, with great attention to detail (pursuit of technical excellence).
  • Is a ‘Team Player’ – believes individual success is only achieved through team success.
  • Manages their time exceptionally well and is able to deliver work independently as needed. Able to set and commit to a project plan and demonstrable ability to then execute and deliver on this commitment.
  • Personal interest in keeping up to date with new / relevant technology and SaaS market trends, and innovations.
  • Confident and willing to draw on your own experiences. Speaks up when discussing solutions and propose alternative options. (Challenges the status quo!)
  • Highly logical with strong demonstration of critical thinking and analytical approach to problem solving. 
  • Demonstrates methodical and consistent application of structured problem-solving techniques. 
  • Functional understanding of mathematical and statistical methods and modelling techniques.
  • Flexible, able to manage personal work schedule and expectations to accommodate regular coordination with international offices and events. Some occasional late evening, early morning and weekend work will be required to accommodate international time zones.
  • Preference may be given to strong candidates located in/near a major city in the UK (East Midlands preferred), Canada or Australia.

Salary range & benefits

  • £50-70k GBP in local currency equivalent (commensurate with qualifications and experience).
  • Health/Dental/Life Stipend, Fitness/Wellness Stipend, and more.

Ready to apply?

Reach out to Grant Wright, Lead SW Engineer, EMEA at [email protected]

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Candidates will be shortlisted and interviewed as applications are received, until positions are filled.
Target Start Date: Q4 2025.