Head Of Affiliates

Why Join DAZN?

 DAZN is on a mission to connect fans with their favourite sports, and affiliates are key to that strategy. As Head of Affiliates, you’ll drive the growth of an affiliate programme for DAZN in North America. You’ll have a chance to build an acquisition channel at scale, working with innovative partners to drive quality traffic and subscriptions. Collaborate with media teams, legal, finance, and country leads to make affiliate marketing a key contributor to performance. If you thrive in a data-led, entrepreneurial environment, this role is for you.

The Role

 You’ll lead the affiliate strategy, overseeing a portfolio of partners, networks, and publishers. You will build and optimise the affiliate programme, ensuring alignment with business goals. This includes setting KPIs, managing budget, evaluating new technologies, and developing compelling offers and content. The role is both strategic and operational, requiring stakeholder management and cross-functional leadership.

Salary Range: $150,000 - $180,000. This is hybrid role which will be based mostly on site from our New York office.

Department

RS-292 - O06

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

US - New York

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Define and scale an affiliate strategy aligned with commercial targets.
• Recruit and nurture new affiliate partners and optimise existing ones.
• Manage budgets, commissions, and incentive plans.
• Collaborate on creative asset development and ensure brand compliance.
• Measure and analyse affiliate performance and report to senior leadership.
• Ensure compliance with regulations, especially in the betting sector.
• Lead affiliate testing and innovation roadmap.
• Support integration of affiliate platforms and tracking solutions.

What You'll Bring:

• Significant experience in affiliate marketing, preferably within media or gaming.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of CPA/CPL/RevShare models.
• Exceptional negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Proven experience leading global affiliate strategies and teams.
• Data-driven mindset with experience using affiliate platforms and tracking tools.
• Understanding of gambling compliance.

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.