Shortly after graduation, Sosna was hired in the marketing department of the Cincinnati Bearcats athletic program.[1] He was promoted to chief of staff in 2016 at the age of 23.[1] The following year, he joined the NFL's Cleveland Browns as an assistant in football administration after being interested working with Browns executives Sashi Brown and Paul DePodesta.[1] There, Sosna assisted in managing the salary cap, negotiating contracts, and developing free agent evaluations.[1] He was rehired by the Bearcats as chief revenue officer and senior associate athletic director in February 2019, overseeing ticket sales, media relations, and marketing under athletic director Mike Bohn.[2][3]
Sosna followed Bohn to the USC Trojans in December 2019 and worked as their chief of staff and executive senior associate athletic director focusing on their football program,[1] where he was considered key in the hiring of head coach Lincoln Riley in 2021.[4][5] Sosna was hired by the NFL's Detroit Lions in July 2022 as the senior director of football administration, serving as their primary contract negotiator.[4][6] He left in May 2024 to join the NFL's Washington Commanders as the senior vice president of football operations, handling contracts in addition to leading their analytics and football administration departments.[7][8]
Personal life
Sosna is the youngest of six siblings.[1] His father Harold Sosna was a former president of a Cincinnati-based nursing home management company who plead guilty to bank fraud in October 2021 by way of a $59 million check kiting scheme and was sentenced to 42 months in prison.[9][10] Sosna is Jewish; his paternal and maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors and he participated in the 2010 March of the Living trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp.[11][12] He served as president of Penn's Zeta Beta Tau fraternity chapter.[12] He was listed on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work as the chief revenue officer for the Bearcats.[3]
