Playout Director

Why Join DAZN?

At DAZN, we’re transforming how the world watches sport — and our broadcast operations are at the heart of that revolution. As a Playout Director, you’ll be part of a fast-paced, 24/7 environment where precision, teamwork, and passion come together to deliver world-class live sports to millions of fans across the globe. From Serie A and the Premier League to MotoGP, IPL, and PFL, you’ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting live events in global sport. We’re a dynamic, evolving team where every day brings new challenges and rewards — and if you thrive under pressure and love live broadcasting, DAZN is the perfect place to make your mark.

The Role

 As a Playout Director, you’ll take ownership of transmitting live and server-based sports content across DAZN’s linear channels and OTT platforms. You’ll manage live feeds, monitor signal quality, and ensure seamless delivery of broadcast schedules to audiences in Spain, Italy, France, the UK, and beyond. Working within a state-of-the-art facility in Leeds, you’ll collaborate closely with production, scheduling, and technical operations teams to keep our live output running flawlessly. This role demands sharp technical knowledge, composure in live environments, and an ability to adapt quickly to last-minute changes — whether it’s a goal in extra time or a rain delay at a Grand Prix. You’ll be part of a close-knit broadcast operations team that makes sure the world never misses a moment of the action.

Department

73-128 - Delivery - Transmission

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - Leeds

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Loading, preparing, and transmitting daily playout schedules.
• Executing scheduled live events to ensure accurate broadcast delivery.
• Managing live event changes, overruns, and underruns, and generating EPG reports.
• Using standby material and managing schedule contingencies.
• Monitoring and quality-controlling all incoming and outgoing broadcast signals.
• Ensuring all media assets are available and liaising with graphics and production teams for missing or incorrect content
• Recording and editing content for same-day turnaround
• Anticipating and resolving faults quickly to minimise on-air disruption.
• Actioning disaster recovery procedures when required.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience in live transmission or broadcast operations, ideally within sports.
• Proficiency with broadcast automation systems (e.g., Morpheus ICE UX).
• Strong understanding of file-based workflows, encoding, and streaming technologies.
• Meticulous attention to detail with clear communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a live, high-pressure environment.
• Understanding of broadcast compliance and technical standards.
• Calm, solutions-driven mindset with flexibility to work shifts, weekends, and events.
• Knowledge of IP protocols and IP content delivery workflows.
• Spanish or Italian language skills are beneficial but not essential.

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, free access for you and one other to our workplace mental health platform app (Unmind), 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. 

Everyone has the opportunity to make change and impact our DEI journey by joining our ERGs: Proud@DAZN, Women@DAZN, Disability@DAZN and ParentZone.

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.