Senior Programme Manager

As the Senior Strategic Programmes Manager you will support our North America Global Team to manage and execute business critical programmes across Global Sports.  

The role will lead multiple programmes of high strategic importance – working with a range of senior stakeholders across Commercial, Product & Technology, Rights, Marketing, Content & Editorial, Social, Legal and more.  

You will need to design and implement new ways of working and process to support the Senior Leadership team to efficiently execute complex programmes across a new Global Sports vertical, working collaboratively with the North America Global Team and the wider Growth Markets team.  

The role will require experience in managing multifaceted programmes of high strategic importance - you should be comfortable digging into the detail of end-to-end programme delivery, whilst confidently communicating to and managing senior and executive stakeholders. The right candidate for this role should be very organised, a confident communicator, driven for success, able to identify and focus on the things that 

Salary Range: $100,000 - $140,000

This role will be based in our New York office.

As part of our recruitment process, we may use automated or AI-supported tools to assist with application review and screening. These tools are used to support, not replace, human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are always made by our hiring team.

Department

RS-492 - COO - Commercial & Corporate Strategy

Employment Type

Permanent - Full Time

Location

US - New York

Workplace type

Hybrid

What You'll Be Doing:

• Collaborate with multiple internal and external teams to ensure your programmes are scoped, planned, resourced and successfully delivered  
• Provide project governance, ensuring that issues, actions, and progress are tracked across the Senior Leadership team and within the wider Growth Markets team 
• Identify and proactively manage key risks / issues / gaps /dependencies and develop mitigation plans; resolve issues in a timely manner and drive/facilitate decision-making 
• Regularly present to senior business stakeholders ensuring they are kept up to date on deliverables with expectations managed  
• Support the wider Strategic Programmes / Growth Markets team on business-critical programmes of work

What You'll Bring:

• Relevant work experience, preferably in a fast-paced technology / sports media / broadcasting environment  
• Programme management experience delivering complex programmes that span across multiple business areas 
• Excellent organisational skills, able to oversee complex workstreams and engage across multiple teams 
• Excellent at designing effective stakeholder reporting and able to adapt communication methods as required 
• Strengths in problem solving and issue-resolution 
• Good analytical skills with the ability to use data and metrics to back up assumptions  
• Understanding of sports media, technology and content landscape 
• Experience in reporting upwards to senior management, both in verbal presentations and documents  
• Experience working in a matrix organisation across different countries and cultures 
• Strong knowledge of Powerpoint, Excel and Word to articulate and visualise documentation, plans and reports to stakeholders  
• Project or Programme management qualifications (Prince 2, Agile etc.) 

Benefits

Benefits include access to DAZN, up to 15 days of paid time off and 9 days of annual leave, health benefits (including dental & eye care) and a generous sick time package as well as short and long-term disability covering, parental leave offering, personal insurances, such as basic life term and personal accident and access to a 401(k) retirement plan. You’ll also find a family friendly community, 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.