Head Of Global Research & Measurement

About DAZN

DAZN is the world's leading sports entertainment platform, delivering premium live and on-demand sports to millions of fans across more than 200 markets. As DAZN continues to expand its global advertising business, we are investing in data, insights, and measurement capabilities that help brands better understand, reach, and engage passionate sports audiences.

We are seeking an innovative commercial leader to build and lead our global Research, Measurement & Commercial Insights function. This is a highly visible leadership role responsible for developing the audience intelligence, measurement strategy, and thought leadership that supports advertisers, agencies, and DAZN's global commercial organization.

Reporting into the Chief Revenue Officer, this leader will serve as the voice of advertiser effectiveness and audience intelligence across DAZN's advertising business.

The Opportunity

Advertising is increasingly judged not simply by reach, but by measurable business outcomes. As DAZN continues to grow as a premium global sports media platform, we are building world-class research and measurement capabilities that demonstrate the value of our audience, prove campaign performance, and help shape the future of sports advertising.

This leader will partner closely with Sales, Product, Data Science, Marketing, Finance, and Executive Leadership to transform research into a strategic commercial advantage.

Salary Range: $170,000 - $200,000. This is hybrid role which will be based mostly on site from our New York office.

Department

RS-648 - Media - Ads Strategy

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

US - New York

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Lead DAZN’s global commercial research and insights strategy to support advertising revenue growth and strengthen market positioning.
• Develop audience narratives, consumer insights, category trends, and thought leadership that showcase the value of DAZN’s sports fans.
• Own the global advertising measurement strategy across brand, performance, sponsorship, attribution, incrementality, reach, and attention metrics.
• Build audience intelligence frameworks, segmentation models, and planning tools to help advertisers effectively engage high-value sports audiences.
• Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, and commercial teams to deliver impactful client pitches, insights, and data-driven narratives that drive growth.
• Establish and manage strategic partnerships with leading research and measurement organisations to enhance DAZN’s measurement capabilities and industry presence.
• Create innovative measurement solutions with agencies and advertisers while helping shape best practices across the wider advertising ecosystem.
• Build and lead a high-performing global team across commercial research, audience insights, marketing science, analytics, and data visualisation.

What You'll Bring:

• 8+ years’ experience in advertising research, audience measurement, marketing science, analytics, or commercial insights.
• Proven leadership experience within media, streaming, television, digital publishing, advertising technology, agencies, or measurement organisations.
• Experience working with major agencies, advertisers, and enterprise-level clients to deliver commercial insights and measurement solutions.
• Track record of leading global teams and collaborating across multiple regions and markets.
• Deep expertise in cross-platform advertising measurement, audience analytics, and brand effectiveness.
• Strong understanding of attribution, sponsorship measurement, streaming advertising, and first-party data strategies.
• Experience applying research methodologies and consumer insights to influence commercial decision-making.
• Passionate about sports media, digital platforms, and using data to drive advertiser value.

Benefits

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

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.