NASCAR

Industry: Motorsports sanctioning, live events, and sports media

NASCAR is the sanctioning body for stock car racing in the United States, organizing national series including the Cup Series, Xfinity Series and Craftsman Truck Series, and it also produces and distributes its own racing content through NASCAR Productions. After closing a roughly $2 billion purchase of International Speedway Corporation in 2019, the company also controls a portfolio of racetracks that includes Daytona, Talladega and Homestead-Miami. Corporate offices are centered in Daytona Beach, Florida and the Charlotte/Concord, North Carolina area, with staffing at racetracks across the country, from Phoenix Raceway in Arizona to Iowa Speedway and Richmond Raceway.

Types of talent they hire: competition and race operations (technical inspectors, officials, competition operations managers), broadcast and digital content production (video producers, broadcast traffic and engineering roles), marketing, social media, and paid media analytics (including Python/SQL-based analyst work), finance and accounting, business systems and IT, including live event application engineering, event operations, hospitality, ticketing, and facility management, and interns across most departments, including marketing, communications, and engineering, matched to academic discipline.