Senior Platform Editor

What's your new role about?
Are you a skilled editor with a passion for sports? Do you have a hyper accurate eye for detail and a strong instinct for what engages an audience? DAZN may be the place for you!

As Senior Platform Editor at DAZN you will work under the Chief Editors, publishing content, organising the app across multiple territories and ensuring a flawless content experience. You will require a strong knowledge of a variety of sports, particularly US sports.

You will be responsible for editorial maintenance of the app on both the front and backend, therefore accuracy is key. It is crucial that you can pick the right line and image to tell the story, and that you are able to prioritise content by what will appeal to a user most.

We are looking for someone highly organised, who is comfortable planning, reviewing, and presenting to internal stakeholders, as well as building relationships with our partners.

This role is based in our Leeds office but offers hybrid working. Shifts will work across a 7-day rota, with some evening work required, aligning with the big sporting events.

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.
As our new Senior Platform Editor you'll have the opportunity to:

• Engage a worldwide audience 
• Dictate the look and feel of the app
• Deliver first-class content to subscribers, across a stacked schedule
• Contribute and execute ideas for key rights and major events
• Take ownership of specific sections/major rights and report directly to Chief Editors

You'll have:

• Experience picking out errors in spelling and grammar.
• Ability to watch an interview and pick out the killer headline every time. You know what lines sports fans will click on
• Experience in presenting to stakeholders and collaborating with internal and external teams
• Extremely strong attention to detail and be highly organised
• The ability to plan for big events and review after
• Experience working in the fast-paced environment of sport
• A knowledge of the OTT/sports broadcasting landscape
• A working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud