How many pickleball jobs are remote? About 1 in 16
Almost every pickleball job is on site. Here's the share that's remote or hybrid, which categories offer it, and where to look if you want to work from home.
"Are there remote pickleball jobs?" Yes, but not many. We looked at every pickleball role posted to Third Shot over the last twelve months: 278 distinct roles from 87 employers. Roughly nine in ten are on site, about one in sixteen is remote, and about one in fifteen is hybrid.
That tracks with the industry. Most pickleball employers run courts, clubs and lessons, and you can't coach a clinic over Zoom. The remote jobs cluster in the parts of the business that look like any other company.
Which categories offer remote work
Here is how the roles break down in the categories with any remote or hybrid roles. Counts are approximate because a role posted in several places can carry different workplace labels.
- Coaching: 95 roles, 3 remote, 1 hybrid.
- Club management: 63 roles, all on site.
- Sales: 30 roles, 3 remote, 2 hybrid.
- Marketing: 20 roles, 3 remote, 3 hybrid.
- Operations: 23 roles, 1 remote, 3 hybrid.
- Design: 8 roles, 2 remote, 1 hybrid.
- Engineering: 7 roles, 1 remote, 1 hybrid.
- Product: 10 roles, none remote, 2 hybrid.
- Content and media: 5 roles, 3 hybrid.
Marketing, sales, design and engineering are where a remote or hybrid setup is realistic. Club management is always on site.
What this means if you want remote
- Look at the brands, not the clubs. Paddle, apparel and tech companies hire people who can work from anywhere. Facilities don't.
- Sales and marketing give the most options. Together they're the largest group of remote roles we see.
- Expect competition. With so few remote roles, each one draws applicants from well beyond the sport.
- Hybrid is a more common middle ground in content, operations and product than full remote.
Caveats
Our data covers jobs that reached public boards or career pages. Workplace labels come from the posting, and some employers don't state one clearly. We'll refresh these numbers as more roles come in.
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