Compliance Manager

Why Join DAZN Bet?

DAZN is transforming the way the world experiences sport, and DAZN Bet is redefining sports betting through innovation, integrity, and a customer-first approach. Operating in highly regulated markets, our Compliance team plays a critical role in ensuring we meet our regulatory obligations while enabling sustainable business growth. As a Compliance Manager, you'll work at the heart of the business, partnering with teams across Product, Operations, Legal, Marketing, and Customer Services to deliver practical, commercially focused compliance solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to influence business decisions, build strong regulatory relationships, and help shape the future of compliance within one of the fastest-growing names in sports entertainment and betting.

The Role:

As Compliance Manager – Canada, you will be responsible for ensuring DAZN Bet meets its regulatory obligations across our Canadian operations. Acting as a trusted advisor to the business, you'll provide expert compliance guidance across day-to-day operations, strategic initiatives, and new product developments while balancing commercial objectives with regulatory requirements. You'll serve as the primary point of contact for Canadian regulators, oversee licensing obligations, and work closely with colleagues across multiple jurisdictions to deliver DAZN Bet's global Compliance strategy. This role requires strong stakeholder management, regulatory expertise, and the ability to operate effectively within a fast-paced and evolving regulatory environment.

Department

12-993 - G&A - Compliance

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Utilising internal systems to develop and maintain on an ongoing basis a solid knowledge base of Ontario, Alberta and wider Canadian legislation, regulations, guidance and technical documents
• Advising and supporting the business with the implementation of commercially compliant operational procedures, in line with policy and regulatory requirements, liaising with stakeholders at all levels of seniorit
• Building a strong internal network and managing key stakeholders effectively to ensure visibility of compliance and input into business activity, providing timely compliance advice and managing any risks
• Undertaking regular horizon scanning in relation to regulatory changes and developments, reporting on outputs and feeding directly into business planning processes and working closely with the Product, Technology and/or Operational teams to ensure the optimised implementation of requirements
• Acting as key point of contact internally to support new projects and initiatives impacting the Canada market and representing compliance on the relevant steering meetings
• Maintaining all required regulatory policy documentation and internal guidance documents, ensuring these are reviewed at least annually and in response to any regulatory changes ·        
• Responsibility for delivering all elements of regulatory reporting to the Canada regulators ·        
• Pro-actively developing and maintaining positive and constructive relationships with our regulators, key industry stakeholders such as trade bodies and key third-party providers
• Working closely with the Compliance Monitoring Manager to deliver the quarterly monitoring programme, ensuring monitoring processes are fully cognizant of Canada regulatory requirements
• Following up on any weaknesses identified as part of the monitoring output process and driving improvements, working in conjunction with the relevant business stakeholders as needed  
• Working closely with the Head of Technical Compliance to support end to end handling of regulatory incidents, including assessment of the event, implementation of remedial action and managing regulator communications if required 
• Supporting the Compliance Director by feeding into wider business governance processes, such as reporting and by presenting directly to senior stakeholders on matters of Canada compliance 
• Keeping abreast of regulatory rulings and public statements and ensuring a documented and effective feedback loop is in place to share learnings back into first line teams and optimising our compliance 
• Maintaining close relationships with the marketing team and delivering on agreed processes to support the efficient execution of marketing campaigns that remain fully compliant at all times
• Undertaking monthly and ad-hoc checks to ensure marketing and website content is compliant

What You’ll Bring:

• Experience of the working within the online gambling sector and knowledge of legislative frameworks and regulation are critical for this role
• Knowledge of legislative frameworks and regulation of the online gambling industry within Canada
• Experience of working within the online gambling sector, within a compliance focused role
• Strong influencing skills
• Proactivity in identifying and addressing process weakness, driving a culture of iterative improvement across all compliance procedures

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 25 days’ annual leave, 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.