The 10 pickleball companies hiring most aggressively right now
Where the open roles actually are in 2026 — the brands, clubs, and tech startups posting the most jobs across coaching, marketing, ops, and product.
If you want to work in pickleball, the question is less "is anyone hiring?" — they are — and more "where are the actual open seats?" We pull every public ATS, scrape Indeed, LinkedIn, and Google for Jobs every night, and run the results through an AI filter that drops anything that isn't actually pickleball. Here's what the data says about who's hiring most aggressively.
1. Life Time
The largest pickleball-court operator in the US. Their Workday board consistently has the most open roles tagged "pickleball" on any given day — pros, leads, department heads, and member-experience people. Pay is corporate-fitness scale (think $25-30/hr for entry pros, six figures for multi-location directors). See open Life Time roles →
2. Selkirk Sport
The biggest pure-play pickleball brand in the US. Family-owned out of Hayden, Idaho with a satellite team in Kuala Lumpur. They hire across marketing, brand, supply chain, and sponsorship operations. Their Greenhouse board is the cleanest of any pickleball company. See open Selkirk roles →
3. JOOLA
Rockville, Maryland. Originally a table-tennis brand, JOOLA's pickleball division is the most aggressive sponsor in the sport (Ben Johns, PPA Tour). Their hiring leans demand planning, brand marketing, and category management. See open JOOLA roles →
4. The Picklr
50+ indoor pickleball clubs across North America. Their isolvedHire board is constantly cycling closers, members-experience leads, and pros as they open new locations. Stack Athletics (their owned apparel brand) hires from the same pool. See open Picklr roles →
5. Babolat
The French heritage racquet brand (Lyon HQ, founded 1875) that's expanded into pickleball. They post regularly in both their French and US offices — interns to senior brand roles. Strong place to land if you want a multi-sport racquet career path. See open Babolat roles →
6. PPA Tour
The pro tour. They run a tight team (most pro sports tours do), but when they hire, the roles tend to be high-leverage: tour ops, broadcast, sponsorship sales. Owned by Tom Dundon's UPA. See open PPA roles →
7. Franklin Sports
Family-owned multi-sport equipment maker out of Stoughton, Massachusetts. Official ball of MLP. Hires across product, marketing, and ops; their pickleball division is small but real. See open Franklin roles →
8. DUPR
The pickleball rating system. Based in Texas; growing software team. If you want a pickleball job in product, engineering, or growth that isn't at a paddle brand, DUPR is your single best lead. See open DUPR roles →
9. Chicken N Pickle
Restaurant + pickleball facility hybrid. Aggressive expansion across the Midwest and South. Hires more F&B than pickleball-specific, but pro and instructor roles are real. See open CNP roles →
10. The Dink
The biggest pickleball media brand. Newsletter, podcast, social, and growing e-commerce. NYC-based, mostly remote. The right place if you want a media or content role in the industry. See open Dink roles →
What we noticed
A few patterns from the data:
- Facility operators outweigh brands in pure volume. Life Time, The Picklr, Chicken N Pickle, and PickleRage collectively post more roles than every paddle brand combined.
- Marketing and brand roles cluster at the paddle makers. If you want a marketing role in pickleball, Selkirk and JOOLA are the most likely matches; CRBN, Paddletek, and Gearbox almost never post public roles (they hire through LinkedIn DMs).
- Coaching roles outnumber everything else. ~40% of open roles on the board on any given day are coach, pro, or instructor positions. If you have a cert, you can find work quickly.
- Pickleball tech is real but small. DUPR is the standout. Engineering jobs in pickleball still mostly route through DTC brands' shopify stacks.
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