Work With the Team Behind Surprise Sports.
We publish verified player net worth profiles, in-depth cricket and IPL coverage, FIFA World Cup research, football news, tennis analysis, and sports gear reviews.
We are a small team. Everyone who works here has a direct impact on what readers see and what they trust.
We do not hire for headcount. We hire when we find someone whose standard matches ours.
Two roles are open right now. Last updated: June 2026.
What Working at Surprise Sports Looks Like
The editorial team is direct. Feedback is specific and honest. Work that meets the standard is published. Work that does not is returned with clear notes on why. If you want to know where you stand, you will always know.
The site covers sports that the team genuinely cares about. If you are joining as a tennis writer, you are writing for a publication that takes tennis seriously.
If you are joining as the technical SEO lead, you are working on a site that has built real organic authority without backlink dependency. The work is real and the results are visible.
Why Surprise Sports Is Worth Your Time
Here is what working with Surprise Sports actually looks like.
Your Work Reaches a Real Audience
Over 100,000 readers a month come to this site for sports research they cannot find anywhere else. When you write a player net worth profile or fix a crawl issue that was holding a tournament guide back, real people benefit from it the same week. The work is not going into a content calendar that nobody reads. It is going to readers in 47 countries who chose this site specifically because the standard is higher.
Full Creative and Editorial Ownership
There are no layers of approval at Surprise Sports. You do the research, you write or implement the work, and the editorial lead reviews it. If it meets the standard it goes live. If it needs work you get specific feedback, not a vague rejection. Writers own their articles. The SEO lead owns the technical roadmap. The work you produce here has your name on it in a way that matters for your professional record.
Flexible Remote Work, No Surveillance
Fully remote means fully remote. There is no time-tracking software. No requirement to be online during specific hours. No daily check-in calls to prove you are working. Deadlines exist and they are taken seriously. Everything else is yours to manage. If you can produce good work on time, how you organise your day around it is your business.
Work That Is Worth Adding to Your Portfolio
Surprise Sports has verifiable results. Pages cited in AI Overviews and Perplexity at positions where no traditional ranking model predicted citation. 50,000 monthly organic sessions built without a single backlink campaign. For an SEO professional, that is a case study. For a tennis writer, having your byline on a site that 100,000 sports fans read monthly is a meaningful credential. The work here builds something you can actually point to.
A Site That Is Growing, Not Maintaining
Surprise Sports is expanding into new content categories ahead of the FIFA World Cup 2026. The site's audience has grown consistently since 2021. The technical and editorial infrastructure is being rebuilt to support the next stage of that growth. Joining now means being part of building something, not maintaining what already exists.
Fair Pay for Work That Meets the Standard
Compensation details are discussed during the application process. What can be said here is that rates reflect the standard of work expected. High-quality research-led content and expert technical SEO work are paid accordingly. This is not a site that expects professional output at content mill rates.
In Their Own Words.
It suits people who take their craft seriously, want ownership over their work, and prefer honest feedback over comfortable silence.
Here is what members of the current team say about it.
Technical SEO Expert
- Type: Full-time or part-time contract (open to discussion)
- Location: Fully remote, any timezone
- Reporting to: Golam Muktadir, Chief Editor
- Start date: As soon as the right person is found
About the Role
Over 50,000 monthly organic sessions driven by 86 articles. Pages ranking between position 13 and 18 on Google getting cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews while competitor pages ranking above them are not cited.
That is what entity-led, semantically structured content does when the technical foundation supports it properly.
The technical SEO foundation is functional. It is not optimised. There are crawl inefficiencies, schema gaps, Core Web Vitals issues, and indexation patterns that need systematic attention.
This role exists to close those gaps and build a technical infrastructure that matches the editorial quality already on the site.
This is not a reporting role. The person in this seat will identify the problems, prioritise the fixes, implement what they can directly, and brief the developer on what requires code-level changes.
If you need to be told what to look for, this is not the right role.
What You Will Work On
Site Architecture and Crawl Efficiency
Schema Markup and Structured Data
Core Web Vitals and Page Experience
Indexation and Search Console Management
AI Search Visibility and Entity Optimisation
Site Migrations and URL Management
Ongoing Monitoring and Reporting
What We Are Looking For
Essential
Minimum three years of hands-on technical SEO experience on sites with meaningful content volume. Not agency-side reporting. Actual implementation, debugging, and results ownership.
Proven experience with Google Search Console, Screaming Frog or equivalent crawl tool, and at least one log file analysis tool. You should be able to run a full technical audit independently without a checklist handed to you.
Solid understanding of structured data and schema markup implementation. Not just knowing that schema exists.
Actually writing JSON-LD, testing it in the Rich Results Test, debugging validation errors, and understanding what each schema type communicates to search engines.
Demonstrated experience improving Core Web Vitals scores. Knowing what LCP, CLS, and INP stand for is not enough. Being able to diagnose what is causing a poor score on a specific page and brief a developer on the fix is the requirement.
Ability to read and interpret server logs. Not necessarily to run queries directly, but enough to understand what a log file is telling you about how Googlebot is behaving on the site.
Understanding of robots.txt, canonical tags, hreflang, pagination handling, and URL parameter management. These are daily tools in this role, not advanced topics.
Clear written communication. Technical findings need to be translated into editorial and developer briefs that non-technical team members can act on.
If your audits are comprehensive but unreadable, they are not useful here.
Preferred
Experience with sports or media sites with high content volume and frequent publication schedules.
Familiarity with entity SEO, knowledge graph optimisation, and how structured data contributes to AI citation signals beyond traditional ranking.
Experience working on sites that have been through domain migrations or large-scale URL restructuring.
Familiarity with WordPress technical SEO including Yoast or Rank Math configuration, caching plugin behaviour, and CDN implementation.
Experience with international SEO for sites serving audiences across multiple regions including South Asia, UK, and Australia.
Not Required
You do not need link building experience.
Surprise Sports does not run backlink campaigns and this role does not involve outreach, partnerships, or off-page work of any kind.
You do not need content writing experience. The editorial team handles content. This role is purely technical.
How to Apply
A brief introduction covering your background and why this role fits where you are in your career right now. Not a cover letter written for a different job. Something specific to this one.
Two or three examples of technical SEO work you have done. What the site was, what the problem was, what you did, and what changed as a result. Numbers where you have them.
Links to any public work, case studies, or profiles that support your application.
If you have worked on a site with similar characteristics to Surprise Sports (sports, high volume, net worth or financial data, AI citation considerations) say so clearly.
Applications without specific examples of past work will not progress. Generic applications copied from templates will not progress. The team reads every application that meets the basic format.
Tennis Writer
- Type: Freelance per-article or ongoing retainer (open to discussion based on output)
- Location: Fully remote, any timezone
- Reporting to: Golam Muktadir, Chief Editor
- Start date: As soon as the right person is found
About the Role
The tennis section covers ATP and WTA tour events, Grand Slam previews and recaps, player net worth and career earnings profiles, rankings movement analysis, and historical records.
The reader coming to the Surprise Sports tennis section is not looking for a match recap they could find in thirty other places.
They want the contract behind the headline. They want to know what a title win actually paid. They want the career earnings breakdown behind a retirement announcement. They want analysis that goes one level deeper than the scoreline.
The tennis writer for this site needs to understand the sport well enough to write with genuine authority and care enough about accuracy to source every financial figure properly.
This is not a role for someone who covers tennis occasionally. It is a role for someone who follows the tour closely, understands the difference between prize money and total earnings, and can write about both without losing the reader.
What You Will Write
Player Net Worth and Career Earnings Profiles
Grand Slam Coverage
Tour News and Rankings Analysis
Historical Records and Lists
Gear Reviews and Equipment Guides
What We Are Looking For
Essential
Genuine, demonstrable knowledge of professional tennis. Not general sports writing ability applied to tennis.
Actual knowledge of the ATP and WTA tours, the Grand Slams, the tour calendar, the ranking system, and the players across multiple generations.
The editorial team will know within two paragraphs whether a tennis piece was written by someone who watches the sport or someone who looked it up.
The ability to research and verify financial data. Player net worth profiles at Surprise Sports are built from official prize money records, verified endorsement contracts, and named sources.
If your research process for a net worth figure is "check what other sites say," this is not the right role.
If your process is "find the official ATP prize money archive, cross-reference with reported endorsement deals, explain the gap between prize money and total earnings," this is exactly the right role.
Clean, readable writing in English. The Surprise Sports style is natural, direct, and accessible. It is not formal or academic. It is not social media casual either. It sits between the two.
Articles should be the kind of thing a serious tennis fan reads and thinks "this is how this should be written." Grammar, spelling, and sentence structure need to be clean enough to publish with light editing only.
The ability to meet deadlines. Grand Slam coverage especially is time-sensitive. A Wimbledon draw analysis needs to be ready before readers lose interest in the draw.
A final recap needs to be live while the conversation is still happening. If you cannot turn tournament content around quickly, this specific role is not the right fit.
The ability to write at different lengths and formats. A 300-word rankings update and a 2,000-word career earnings profile require different skills. Both are part of this role.
Preferred
Experience writing about tennis professionally or semi-professionally, whether for a publication, a personal site, or a sports media outlet.
Published clips are helpful. Unpublished samples that demonstrate the required standard are equally acceptable.
Specific knowledge of the financial side of professional tennis. Prize money structures, endorsement deal scale by ranking tier, the economics of a professional tennis career outside the top 50, wild card income, exhibition event earnings.
Writers who already understand this will need less briefing and will write better profiles.
Knowledge of historical tennis records across both tours. The tennis section covers multiple decades of results, records, and earnings data.
A writer who can pull historical context accurately from memory rather than relying entirely on research time is more efficient and more authoritative.
Active following of the current ATP and WTA tours. Rankings awareness, familiarity with emerging players, knowledge of current form and storylines.
The tennis section needs to react to current events, not just cover the four Slams.
Experience writing player biography or financial profile content for any sport. The net worth profile format is learnable but prior experience shortens the curve significantly.
Not Required
You do not need technical SEO knowledge. The editorial and SEO team handles optimisation.
Writers need to produce well-structured, accurate content. The technical side is handled separately.
You do not need to be based in a specific timezone. Grand Slam finals happen at all hours depending on which event it is.
What matters is that agreed deadlines are met, not that you are awake for the match live.
You do not need to cover every format. If your expertise is strongly weighted toward the ATP over the WTA or toward the Slams over the full tour calendar, say so in your application.
Partial coverage with genuine depth is more valuable than full coverage with shallow knowledge.
How to Apply
A brief introduction covering your tennis knowledge and writing background. Be specific about which parts of the tour you follow most closely and what your research process looks like when building a player earnings profile.
Two writing samples. At least one should be tennis-specific. At least one should involve financial or statistical analysis of a player, team, or tournament.
If you have published clips, include links. If you have unpublished samples that demonstrate the required standard, attach them as PDFs or share them as documents.
Your availability and preferred working arrangement. Per-article freelance, monthly retainer, or something else. The arrangement is flexible for the right writer.
Applications without writing samples will not be reviewed. The team cannot assess writing ability from a description of writing ability. Show the work.
Not Seeing the Right Role?
If you have a background in sports writing, sports data research, or digital publishing and believe you could contribute something the site currently lacks, you are welcome to send a general enquiry.
Use the contact page with the subject line “General Application” and include what you do, what you are good at, and what you think Surprise Sports is missing that you could provide.
The team reads these and keeps strong profiles on file when there is no current opening that fits.
What to Expect From the Process
If your application meets the basic requirements and includes specific evidence of relevant work, a human being reads it.
The process for both roles is straightforward. Application reviewed, a short follow-up if the application progresses, a brief trial task or paid sample piece, and a decision.
The process is designed to move quickly for strong candidates and to be honest when something is not the right fit.
Surprise Sports does not leave applications unanswered indefinitely. If your application does not progress, you will be told.
It may take time during busy editorial periods, but the team does not maintain a queue of applications with no intention of responding.
