Programmatic Manager

Why Join DAZN? 

Joining DAZN means being part of a cutting-edge sports streaming company in a vibrant tech hub. You’ll work alongside passionate, talented professionals on innovative projects that reach millions of fans worldwide. Our offers a dynamic work environment with a great balance of career growth and lifestyle. If you’re excited about shaping the future of live and on-demand sports entertainment, DAZN is the perfect place to make your mark and grow your career.  

The Role: 

As a Programmatic Manager at DAZN, you’ll be responsible for the hands-on planning, execution, and optimisation of programmatic media campaigns that drive acquisition, engagement, and brand growth across global markets. You’ll work across display, video, and CTV to deliver data-driven, high-impact campaigns helping DAZN reach and convert sports fans at scale. 

You will manage media strategy and buying within DSP platforms, collaborate with media and creative stakeholders, and drive measurable outcomes across the funnel. This is a role for a data-led, results-driven programmatic expert who thrives in a fast-paced, performance-focused environment. 

Department

77-893 - Subscription - Digital Acquisition Media

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

UK - London

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Own the end-to-end management of programmatic campaigns across display, video, and CTV. 
• Build and optimise campaigns in major DSPs (e.g., DV360, The Trade Desk), ensuring performance against KPIs. 
• Translate marketing briefs into programmatic strategies aligned to acquisition and engagement goals. 
• Monitor campaign performance daily, making real-time optimisations to maximise ROI. 
• Partner with internal media teams, regional marketing leads, and external agencies to align on campaign priorities. 
• Oversee audience segmentation and targeting strategies, leveraging 1st and 3rd party data sources. 
• Manage creative trafficking, A/B testing, and dynamic creative set-ups where applicable. 
• Provide actionable insights and post-campaign analysis to inform future strategy. 

What You'll Bring:

• Strong experience in programmatic media buying (typically 3–5 years), with hands-on use of DSPs like DV360, The Trade Desk, or Amazon DSP. 
• In-depth knowledge of display, video, and connected TV media and how they drive performance across the funnel. 
• Experience working with data and analytics platforms (e.g., GA360, Adobe Analytics, or campaign dashboards). 
• Familiarity with audience targeting strategies, brand safety, and fraud prevention tools (e.g., IAS, MOAT). 
• Ability to interpret data, spot trends, and deliver optimisations that improve campaign performance. 
• Experience working in a fast-moving, results-driven environment ideally within a subscription, entertainment, or digital-first brand. 
• Understanding of attribution models, UTM structures, and conversion tracking methodologies. 

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. 

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.