The posting
Position: Director, Integrated Performance
Reports to: Sr. Director of Player Development
Department: Player Development
Status: Full-Time; Exempt
Position Overview:
The San Francisco Giants are seeking a Director, Integrated Performance to join the Baseball Operations department.
The Director, Integrated Performance provides strategic leadership and oversight of Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, Biomechanics, Mental Skills, and Sports Science within Player Development. This position is responsible for aligning these disciplines to support individualized player development, optimize athletic performance, enhance readiness and promote long-term player growth. The Director establishes department standards, provides leadership and professional development to performance staff, and collaborates with coaches, medical personnel, and player development leadership to ensure performance strategies are effectively integrated into daily baseball operations.
Position Responsibilities:
Department Leadership and Accountability
- Provides leadership and oversight of the five performance disciplines, ensuring consistent standards, clearly defined responsibilities, and accountability across affiliates and complexes.
- Oversee staff development, performance evaluation, and professional growth while supporting collaborative and accountable team environment.
- Partner with Player Development leadership and front office on staffing recommendations resources allocation, budgets, and departmental planning.
Integrated Player Development
- Collaborate with baseball coordinators, coaches, and performance staff to develop and implement individualized player development plans based on assessments, player goals and baseball specific demands.
- Lead player evaluations and meetings to ensure alignment of recommendations, establish clear responsibilities and monitor progress towards development goals.
- Oversee programs focused on strength, power, speed, movement quality, fueling habits, recovery practices, and mental performance skills based on individual player’s needs and development stages.
- Coordinate training programs with baseball schedules and workloads to balance player development, preparation, and competitive readiness.
- Ensure consistent implementation of performance programs throughout the regular season, postseason, offseason and transitions.
Assessment and Decision Support
- Establish and oversee assessment and monitoring processes to evaluate player development, identify opportunities for improvement, and guide adjustments to individualized plans.
- Collaborate with analysts, R&D, and baseball operations personnel to translate sports science and biomechanical data into recommendations for coaches and players.
- Evaluate performance technologies, assessment tools, and training methodologies to support effective decision making and continuous program improvement. data quality, tool usefulness, and program effectiveness.
Collaboration and Communication
- Serve as the primary liaison between the performance disciplines and Player Development leadership, providing regular updates on player progress, staffing priorities, and operational needs.
- Partner with Medical staff regarding player workload, rehabilitation, and return-to-performance planning while maintaining appropriate medical oversight and decision-making authority.
- Support continuity of performance programming and player information across affiliates, complexes and transitions to the Major League level.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology, Sports Science or related field. Advanced degree or recognized performance credentials preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership experience in professional sport or high-performance athletic environment including experience overseeing multidisciplinary teams and implementing athlete development programs. Baseball experience preferred.
- Comprehensive understanding of Strength and Conditioning, Nutrition, Biomechanics, Mental Skills, and Sports Science.
- Strong organizational and analytical skills and communication skills.
- Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality when handling player information and organizational information.
- Willingness to travel to affiliates and complexes, and other organizational locations as needed.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends, and holidays as required by the baseball schedule.
- Spanish language proficiency preferred but not required.
At the Giants, we believe we put our best work forward when our employees bring together ideas that are diverse in thought. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, medical condition or disability, genetic condition, marital status, domestic partnership status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military or veteran status and any other protected class under federal, state or local law. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. In addition, we will provide reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability or special needs, we would like to know how we can better accommodate you.
