Apparel, camps, and competitions for cheerleading and dance teams
Varsity Spirit operates across three revenue streams—uniforms and apparel, educational camps and clinics, and competitive events—reaching over a million athletes annually. The tech stack reveals a hybrid legacy-and-modern architecture: SAP and AS/400 handling core operations alongside AWS cloud services, Salesforce for CRM, and BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) for reporting. Active hiring is concentrated in ops and sales (31 of 65 roles), with event profitability, vendor negotiation, and event-logistics coordination appearing repeatedly in stated pain points—signals that margin pressure and operational complexity are constraining growth.
Varsity Spirit is a division of Varsity Brands and a global supplier of cheerleading and dance team uniforms, educational camps, and competitive events. The company has operated since 1974 and employs 1,001–5,000 people from Memphis, Tennessee. Core business areas include uniform design and manufacturing, multi-day camps and clinics, and hosting or sanctioning competitive events (with associated retail operations at those venues). Recent strategic priorities include launching a professional cheer league, expanding event-based retail, and integrating acquired businesses into unified operations. The organization manages complex logistics—judge scheduling, travel coordination, injury prevention—across a distributed network of events and camps.
Varsity Spirit uses SAP and AS/400 for core business operations, Salesforce for CRM, Power BI and Tableau for analytics, AWS (Lambda, RDS, ECS/EKS, SNS/SQS) for cloud infrastructure, and Java/Spring Boot for application development. Adobe tools (Illustrator, Premiere Pro) support creative teams.
Current projects include launching a professional cheer league, expanding event-based retail, improving event profitability through KPI frameworks and operational reporting, integrating recent acquisitions, and streamlining annual sales territory planning.
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