Chief Editor

Why Join DAZN?
 
DAZN is rewriting the rules of sports storytelling—offering live, VOD, and original content to fans in over 200 markets. As Chief Editor, you’ll lead the charge in connecting our content to viewers more effectively than ever. Your mission is to maximise viewing, retention, and loyalty through data-driven strategy, personalised journeys, and editorial excellence. This is your chance to fuse sport, creativity, and analytics at a global scale—helping millions of fans discover, enjoy, and come back for more. 

The Role

As Chief Editor, you will drive the strategy and execution of how users experience content across DAZN’s platform across North America. From homepage placement and content surfacing to engagement campaigns and editorial strategy, you’ll own the full lifecycle of audience connection. You’ll collaborate with product, data, and marketing to define how content finds fans—and how we keep them watching.

Salary Range: $100,000 - $130,000. This is hybrid role which will be based mostly on site from our New York office.

Department

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

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

US - New York

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Develop and own the platform content engagement strategy 
• Lead cross-functional teams to optimise content discovery and retention 
• Use data to identify patterns and drive personalisation 
• Partner with product and UX to design content journeys and surfacing 
• Oversee editorial and promotion strategies for key sports moments 
• Test and iterate campaigns to increase time-on-platform and return rates 

What You'll Bring:

• Strong background in content, editorial, or product engagement 
• Experience in OTT, streaming, or digital platforms 
• Proven leadership in audience growth or retention strategy 
• Deep passion for sport and user-first content thinking 
• Exceptional cross-functional collaboration and communication skills 

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, up to 15 days of paid time off and 9 days of annual leave, health benefits (including dental & eye care) and a generous sick time package as well as short and long-term disability covering, parental leave offering, personal insurances, such as basic life term and personal accident and access to a 401(k) retirement plan. You’ll also find a family friendly community, 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.