Production Manager

Why Join DAZN?

Joining DAZN means becoming part of a disruptive force in sports media, redefining how fans experience live sports. As a global streaming leader and rights holder of the UEFA Champions League, Bundesliga, and top-tier European football, DAZN offers you the chance to work at the heart of world-class productions. You’ll be joining a creative and ambitious team delivering best-in-class content to millions of fans across multiple territories. In this role, you’ll help shape our Bundesliga coverage and contribute to how live football is experienced in the DACH region and beyond. It’s a unique opportunity to bring your passion for production and your organisational talent to a dynamic, high-performance environment that puts innovation, fan-first thinking, and storytelling at its core.

The Role

As Production Manager at DAZN, you’ll play a key part in the planning and execution of our host broadcast and unilateral productions for the DACH market, with a particular focus on our new Bundesliga Conference airing every Saturday. You’ll be responsible for coordinating all production logistics—technical planning, crew scheduling, and onsite operations—and will act as the central point of contact between the programming team and production crew. Your fluency in German and English, along with your sharp organisational skills, will be essential to ensure smooth delivery and clear communication across departments. The role requires on-site attendance at live outside broadcasts throughout the Bundesliga season, primarily on Saturdays. You’ll be a critical part of a passionate production management team delivering premium football content to a global audience.

Department

84-405 - Content - P&E - Resources

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

Germany - Munich

Workplace type

Onsite

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Maintaining communication with DFL, Sportcast, rights holders, delivery partners, suppliers, and between internal departments.
• Hiring crew & freelance contractors.
• Managing a team of freelancers.
• Controlling and monitoring all production spending & reporting back to the Operation Director and Senior Production Manager.
• Updating risk assessments for all events with the production team and making sure all contractors & 3rd parties are aware of the work health and safety requirements.
• Producing and issuing supplier and crew contracts.
• Travelling to events as and when required and acting as an onsite point of contact for the Production.
• Organizing and attending site surveys.
• Ensuring all suppliers and freelancer invoices are processed and paid promptly.
• Issuing invoices for rights holder add ons.

What You’ll Bring:

• Fluent English & German language skills.
• Previous experience of working as a Production Manager in high profile Football outside broadcasts essential.
• Working with a vast array of different contacts in different global territories.
• Previous experience as a line manager of a team (beneficial)
• Production Safety Passport – or equivalent up to date health and safety training for the film and TV industries.
• Full driving licence an advantage.

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, 30 days’ annual leave, pension contributions up to 3%, a family friendly community, learning and development resources, opportunity for mobile 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.