Chief Editor

Why Join DAZN? 

Joining DAZN means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Our Leeds office offer a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.  

The Role: 

As the Chief Editor (Football) at DAZN, you will play a crucial role in delivering an exceptional sports streaming experience to millions of fans worldwide. With worldwide football rights and major European football, DAZN is looking to become the global home of football. This role is vital to achieving that. 

You will have vast experience in running a sports content platform and a track record of growing engagement with users. 

You love innovation and live and breathe customer experience. As a strong team leader, you will have the ability to inspire a team and drive success.  You're comfortable presenting to senior management, backing up exciting ideas with thorough data. 

You will own key projects and relationships at a global level and your positive attitude and ability to build brilliant relationships with key market leads within the business is vital. Your work will directly shape the way fans interact with DAZN, making live and on-demand content more accessible, dynamic, and engaging than ever before.  

Department

FF-406 - Content - P&E - Platform & Engagement

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own our football experience on platform, across multiple markets and global rights – with the exclusion of core European Markets 
• With an acute focus on customer experience, you will capture the attention of a global audience 
• Set and manage best-practice for the team, maintaining the highest standards 
• Making sure the team exceed KPIs and providing regular reporting to senior stakeholders 
• Creating plans for the platform around major events and key rights 
• Working closely with the other Chief Editors in our English language markets 

What You'll Bring:

• A dynamic team leader, able to inspire 
• Brilliant personable skills, building key internal and external relationships  
• Comfortable presenting to senior management 
• A strategic thinker, who has a track record of driving success 
• An analytical mind, which helps inform decision-making 
• Fantastic knowledge of all levels of football and the OTT/sports broadcasting landscape 

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 3 days after 3 years), private medical insurance, life assurance, pension contributions up to 5%, family friendly community including enhanced parental leave, electric vehicle benefit option, learning and development resources, opportunity for flexible working, and access to our internal speaker series and events.

About DAZN

At DAZN, we bring ambition to life. We are innovators, game-changers and pioneers. So, if you want to push boundaries and make an impact, DAZN is the place to be. 

As part of our team, you'll have the opportunity to make your mark and the power to make change happen. We're doing things no-one has done before, giving fans and customers access to sport anytime, anywhere. We're using world-class technology to transform sports and revolutionise the industry and we're not going to stop. 

DAZN VALUES – THE ‘HOW’ IN WHAT WE DO:  

Agility and creativity fuel growth and innovation, to Make It Happen. 

Prioritising what matters drives progress and positive outcomes, Focusing On Impact. 

Collective ambition builds optimism and success, in order to Win As One. 

At DAZN, we are committed to fostering an inclusive environment that values equality and diversity, where everyone can contribute and have their voices heard. This means hiring and developing talent across all races, ethnicities, religions, age groups, sexual orientations, gender identities and abilities. 

If you’d like to include a cover letter with your application, please feel free to. Please do not feel you need to apply with a photo or disclose any other information that is not related to your professional experience.

Our aim is to make our hiring processes as accessible for everyone as possible, including providing adjustments for interviews where we can.

We look forward to hearing from you.